Tuusula Museum and Pekka Halonen’s society received Tuusula-Seura’s Ruusu-award
Tuusula-Seura Ry awarded its annual Ruusu prizes for significant local community work to the organisation that organised Pekka Halonen's art exhibition at the Petit Palais art museum in Paris. The Ruusu prizes were awarded to the Petit Palais, the Tuusula Museum and the Pekka Halonen Society at the Tuusula-Seura spring meeting.
As Anne-Charlotte Cathelineau, curator of the Petit Palais exhibition, said in her welcome speech to the participants of Pekka Halonen’s study tour, behind such large-scale and successful exhibitions there are always people and their cooperation. The initiative for the exhibition arose from Petit Palais director Annick Lemoine’s love of nature and her positive personal experiences and relationships with Finland.
“In Tuusula, Ulla Kinnunen, Director of Cultural and Museum Services, together with Minna Tuominen, Curator of the Museum, and Päivi Ahdeoja-Määtän, Exhibition Curator, did an excellent job in organising the exhibition,” says Paula Kyrö, Chair of the Tuusula Society.
Pekka Halonen’s group was also involved behind the scenes and organised, among other things, an art trip to Paris to visit an exhibition.
The Pekka Halonen – Hymn to Finland exhibition was part of the Ateneum’s Classics to the World project, which takes visual art abroad with the support of the Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation. The Halosenniemi Museum was involved in planning the exhibition, and several of Halonen’s works and original artefacts from the Halosenniemi and Pekka Halonen Society collections were on display in Paris.
By the end of the exhibition in Paris, it had been seen by 193,000 Parisians and foreign visitors. Next, the exhibition will tour two more countries to be admired by new viewers. Representatives from the Rijksmuseum Twenthe in the Netherlands have already visited Halosenniemi to study and familiarise themselves with the exhibition, with the Finnish winter and the ice roads of Lake Tuusula showing their best side to visitors. The exhibition will open at the museum in Enschede on 20 March and in Ordrupgaard, Denmark, on 4 September.
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