Museum Operations
The Sinebrychoff Art Museum is Finland's only museum specialising in old European art. The museum’s collection boasts the nation's most valuable and internationally significant paintings by Old Masters. The important collections include Swedish, Flemish and Italian paintings as well as furniture, silverware and porcelain and a notable collection of over 400 miniature paintings.
At it's heart lies the Interior Museum. Paul and Fanny Sinebrychoff bequeathed their entire art collection to the Finnish state in 1921, and these works and artefacts are now displayed within the rooms of the former family residence. The current Collection also contains the major part of the old foreign works of art belonging to the Ateneum Art Museum.
The exhibition practice of the Sinebrychoff Art Museum follows closely the practice of international exhibitions, which seek to combine the presentation of European tradition with a feeling for cultural expressions beyond Europe.
November
– December 2007
‘Home
for Christmas’ multicultural workshops
Finnish Christmas
represents a high point
in terms of religion, culture and a festive atmosphere, but many outside the
majority population are excluded from it. Christmas time is a wonderful moment
to consider who we are, and about the nature of Christmas, home, celebration,
joy and art.
The ‘Home for
Christmas' event, now being organised for the second time, is offering ‘those
who don’t celebrate Christmas’ a chance to take part in Christmas in their own
way. We want to consider together what Christmas means for different people and
communities. Through experiencing and creating culture and art, together we can
find new tools for experiencing Christmas. Everyone is welcome to workshops and
exhibitions being held at the Museum
of Contemporary Art Kiasma,
and the Ateneum and Sinebrychoff art museums, in order to make Christmas their
own.
In
its museums, the Finnish National Gallery promotes multiculturalism through a
range of different programmes. These programmes are important factors in the quest
to make museums more attractive to the general public.
The ‘Home for Christmas’ event is also
part of the 2007 European Year of Equal Opportunities for All programme.
AT
THE SINEBRYCHOFF ART MUSEUM
Coffee and cocoa –
workshop for women and families
¡Un tinto doble y un chocolate, por favor! A large coffee and a cocoa,
please.
‘Tinto’ only means coffee in Columbia,
elsewhere it means ‘red wine’. How should coffee be prepared? At 'Home for
Christmas’, find out about the differences between coffee beans, and consider
what the true taste of coffee actually is, or what the right way to serve
coffee is at home and abroad.
At the workshop, learn about the museum’s exhibition ‘Kadun varrella’ (along
the street) and about the Tête-à-tête crockery upstairs, intended for two
people. It is a beautiful example of 18th-century design for the new
fashionable hot drinks of coffee, cocoa and tea. In the museum’s Atelier room, listen to the workshop lectures,
and join with others to prepare delicacies made of coffee and chocolate.
16 November 5.00 –
6.30 pm CHOCOLATE AND COCOA – a workshop for women and children
What do old photographs, chocolate and the museum have in common? The
objects in the Sinebrychoff Interior Museum and the photographs from Helsinki
City Museum’s exhibition ‘Kadun varrella’ give us a view of the past everyday
life and festivities of immigrants. Find out about the history and different
tastes of chocolate and some of its secrets.
30 November 5.00 –
6.30 pm COFFEE AND COCOA – a workshop for women and children
Get together with others to prepare different drinks and other delights
made of coffee, cocoa and chocolate. This workshop is sponsored by Cloetta
Fazer.
19 December 5.00 – 6.30 pm COFFEE
– a workshop for families
Pauligs’ Paula Girl will recount the history of coffee. Taste Finland's favourite coffee, Juhla-Mokka, and
also coffees produced in original coffee-growing countries like Ethiopia, Kenya,
Columbia and Guatemala. This workshop is sponsored
by Paulig.
Assembly for all the workshops is at the
museum’s admissions desk, Sinebrychoff
Art Museum, Bulevardi 40.
Tickets - €4.50/€3.00. The museum’s Atelier room is situated in a yellow wooden
house next to the park. The door is marked with the word ‘TOIMISTO’.
Further information is available from Leena Hannula, Educational Curator
of the Sinebrychoff
Art Museum, tel. +358 40
868 1420 or
Pilar
Valdavia, tel. +358 40 723 7171. If
required, workshops can be held in several different languages. For further information:
Ilona Anttila, producer
Tel. +358 (0)9 173 36329
Fax. +358 (0)9 173 36216
Email: ilona.anttila@fng.fi
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