This is a unique museum of baroque art. Formerly home palace of Sinebrychoff family. Now a part of national gallery, Ateneum. Recommended!
This is a unique museum of baroque art. Formerly home palace of Sinebrychoff family. Now a part of national gallery, Ateneum. Recommended!
If you have time it definitely worth dropping in: cosy family house of Sinebrychoff keeps his amazing collection of medieval oil art (Rembrandt, Tiepolo etc).Besides there are some temporary modern exhibitions going on. For some reason this museum isnt marked on tourist information maps but we were lucky to find it by accident. You should check before going as they might have free entrance one day a week (we were lucky with that too).
It is a small collection. And they had to allow someone to ruin a few rooms of it with some modern art display over some rooms of the old paintings and it was freaky. Some nice pieces and the current exhibition on trees was also nice. Low grade gallery in comparison to Europes best but sweet enough.
Our recent visit to the Sinebrychoff Museum gave us a chance to see a powerful yet tender exhibit entitled Trees Are Poems featuring photography, drawing and painting. The rest of the museum was interesting as well, including an amazing collection of miniatures. Well worth a visit - especially if you enjoy older European art. That the more contemporary special exhibit was featured (Trees Are Poems) made the place feel artistically alive even though it is a historical collection.
Nice collection of foreign art. If you like old paintings, this is for you.
i have been to better art museums.Albeit the Sinebrychoff has an outstanding collection of Swedish oil paintings and miniatures.It has a nice sampling of Dutch oil paintings by the famous(Rembrandt,Goyen,Nicholas Maes) and the not famous(Jan Cool,Jan Van Noordt,Isaac de Joudreville).Its collection of Italian,German,and French paintings is somewhat sketchy,despite superb paintings by Cranach the Elder,Jurgen Ovens,Antoine Watteau,Giovanni Boccati,and Giovanni Castiglione.The lighting in the Dutch and Swedish portraiture sections is poor.Senior citizens receive a two Euro discount.There is labelling of artworks in English.Personal favorites were;Rembrandt's"Monk Reading",Giovanni Boccati's"Adoration of Magi",Giovanni Castiglione's"Orpheus Singing to Animals",Hieronymous Francken the Second's"Connoisseurs in Art Gallery",and Carl Wilhelm de Hamilton's"Forest Floor Stillife",So enjoy this cozy art museum.