Private: Current

9.5.2025 Sculptor Maria Stereo’s work Dilemma has been selected as the 2025 summer sculpture at Tammerlampi. True to Stereo’s signature style, the piece is composed of broken ceramic dishes and tiles. Its influences include the ornate gilded gate of Louis XIV – the Sun King – at the Palace of Versailles, as well as the joyful, eye-catching aesthetics of circuses and carnivals.

23.11.2023 On 21 November 2023, the proposal to amend the local detailed plan for the Tampere Art Museum was approved for display in the municipal board. The change in the local detailed plan concerns the areas of the Tampere Art Museum and the Amuri Museum of Historic Housing and their surroundings. The supplementary construction proposed to the south of Pirkankatu and along Puutarhakatu has been abandoned.

31.10.2023 A solo exhibition of the work of the Tampere-based media artist Charles Sandison will open in the basement gallery of Tampere Art Museum next February. Sandison (b. 1969 in England) is one of the internationally best-known artists in Finland. His art has been described as “poetry of light”.

6.10.2023 Visual artist Tuomo Rosenlund and author Mika Hannula collaborate in the joint exhibition Urban Utopia merging visual and verbal storytelling. The Light Gallery is part of the Tampere Festival of Light programme and is produced by the Tampere Art Museum.

18.8.2023 The world’s only Moomin Museum has been recognized by Tripadvisor as a 2023 Travellers’ Choice award winner for the Speciality Museums category. The award-winning destination consistently receives excellent reviews from travellers on the Tripadvisor platform. Winners are ranked among the top 10% of all listings on Tripadvisor worldwide.

16.6.2023 There are two exhibitions opening at the Tampere Art Museum on Saturday 17.6.2023. Eetu Huhtala's oeuvre consists of mechanical and large-scale metal sculptures and other multisensory works. Cruel Radiance, the 2023 edition of the Backlight festival, examines the evidential aspects of matter through photography and the moving image.

9.5.2023 Repairs will be carried out in the museum building next winter, causing the museum to be closed from October 16th, 2023 to January 26th, 2024. The Young Artist…

9.11.2022 Art historian Selma Green (M.A.) has been appointed Museum Director of the Tampere Art Museum and Moomin Museum. She will assume her duties as the new Museum Director on 1 January 2023.