Taidemuseo

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  • Address
    Pitkänsillankatu 39, Kokkola
  • Phone
    828 9474

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Lonely Planet review

The Taidemuseo is in a large 19th-century merchants' mansion. It contains the collection of the portly Karl Herman Renlund (1850-1908), a shopworker who made good and left his art collection for the benefit of 'students and the working class'. He tipped the scales at 160kg when he died, but his collection is less heavyweight, although a Victor Westerholm canvas depicting the savage beauty of the Voikkaa rapids is memorable.