Kuopio Sights

  1. Kuopio Art Museum

    The art museum features mostly modern art in temporary exhibitions, but also displays permanent works. Look out for paintings by the local artist Juho Rissanen (1873-1950), whose realistic portraits of Finnish working people were a contrast to the prevalent Romanticism.

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  2. Kuopio Museum

    The beautiful Art Nouveau 'castle' was built in 1907 and houses the Kuopio Museum, with interesting archaeological and cultural displays. There are also frequent special exhibitions.

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  3. Orthodox Church Museum

    A fascinating, well-presented museum, the Orthodox Church Museum holds collections brought here from monasteries, churches and tsasouni (chapels) in USSR-occupied Karelia. Today it is the most notable collection of eastern Orthodox icons, textiles and religious objects outside Russia. The oldest artefacts date from the 10th century.

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  4. Photographic Centre

    There are excellent exhibitions in the summer at the Photographic Centre, devoted to Victor Barsokevitsch, who was a local portrait photographer regarded as one of the pioneers of Finnish photography. His studio is now a photo gallery, but there are enough old cameras and photos to call this a museum. In the garden you can enjoy a cup of coffee in summer and be astounded by the camera obscura.

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