Sibelius Museum
Sibelius Museum is a museum of music named after the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius located close to Turku Cathedral in the historical city centre of Turku in south-western Finland. It is the only museum totally devoted to music in Finland. The museum, designed by architect Woldemar Baeckman, was opened in 1968, and houses a collection of over 2000 historical musical instruments from around the world. The museum's archives include documents (sheet music, manuscripts, recordings, photos, concert programmes, etc.) from numerous composers, though primarily those of Sibelius. The building also contains a small concert hall, the Sibelius Hall, as well as an auditorium and even originally rooms set aside for the use of the Department of Musicology at Åbo Akademi University.
The building is a notable example of the Brutalist concrete architecture of its time, though Baeckman's earlier architecture was more classically modernist in style, most notably the extension to the Åbo Akademi University Library. The exterior architecture is notable for the grains of the timber formwork being visible in the prefabricated concrete facades. The interior is particularly notable for the large hyperbolic paraboloid-shaped concrete shell structure, said to have been influenced by the then contemporaneous architecture of the Mexican architect Félix Candela. In the centre of the building is a hidden courtyard which originally had a garden (since demolished) designed by noted Finnish garden designer Maj-Lis Rosenbröijer.
Coordinates: 60°27′13″N 22°16′39″E / 60.4537°N 22.2775°E
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