Gallery sights in Lakeland & The East
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Imatran Taidemuseo
Just south of the bus and train stations, in the same building as the library, the town art gallery is worthwhile. Most of the space is taken up with good temporary exhibitions, but the permanent collection includes a pensive young violinist by Eero Järnefelt, and a Gallen-Kallela watercolour of the rapids in 1893, which gives an idea of what they were once like.
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VB Valokuvakeskus
Excellent summer exhibitions grace the Photographic Centre, devoted to Victor Barsokevitsch, one of the pioneers of Finnish photography. His studio is now a gallery, but there are enough old cameras and photos to call this a museum. In the garden you can enjoy a coffee in summer and check out the camera obscura.
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Kuopion Taidemuseo
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 of the time.
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Tyko Art Gallery
Housed in the Nurmes-talo building is the free Tyko Art Gallery with changing monthly exhibitions.
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