Uusi Kansallinen (in English: the New National) was a two-stage, open ideas architecture competition for the design of an annex to the National Museum of Finland in Helsinki. The competition was jointly organized by the Finnish Heritage Agency, the National Museum of Finland and Senate Properties.
The annex will be built adjacent to the historic and distinguished main building designed by Herman Gesellius, Armas Lindgren and Eliel Saarinen.
The new annex will facilitate the production of large-scale and technically demanding exhibitions for the National Museum of Finland. In addition to exhibitions, its multi-use, easily adaptable spaces will be well suited for a diverse range of cultural, art and recreational events, conferences and other functions.
The historic main building and its new annex, together with the new, year-round publicly open courtyard park for different communities and urban events, will provide a unique, highly diverse range of valued experiences. The core of this concept is a multicultural perspective on Finnish society, its cultural heritage and its evolution. The winner of the competition is to be a functional and architectural reinterpretation of what the concept of ‘national’ means to us today.
Tamás Fialovszky, Richárd Hőnich, Gergely Kenéz, Luca Mudry, Katalin Varga, Design Studio H2E
Muesum extension
international competition
Helsinki, Finland
Finnish National Museum
Muesum extension
international competition
Helsinki, Finland
Finnish National Museum