The heart of the collections of the Museum of Foreign Art is the 1921 legacy of Fanny and Paul Sinebrychoff. The collections of this rich and famous brewing family included not only old foreign art but silver, porcelain and furniture. At present, the museum is exhibiting Dutch and Flemish art of the seventeenth century, Italian and French paintings, Swedish portraiture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Russian and Karelian icons and a collection of miniatures that is uncommonly large for Scandinavia. The museum is in the old Sinebrychoff family home, on the lovely French-style Bulevardi. From the city centre, the museum is best reached on foot or by tram number 6.
Hietalahti market is nearby.
00260 Helsinki, tel. The fine and extensive private collection contains Finnish art from the late nineteenth century to the 1960's. The museum is in T l , within a stone's throw of another home museum, the Collection of the Reitz Foundation. If you want to glance at a beautiful Finnish home milieu and Finnish art, old and new, The Kirpil Art Collection and the Collection of the Reitz Foundation are for you. Exhibitions at the Villa Gyllenberg include Finnish art from the eighteenth century to the 1960's and old foreign art.