Roberto Gonzalez
National Museum of Finland
The truth is that it looks like anything but a museum. Because when you see it from afar, it looks like a church, a reformatory, or a convent. But once you get a little closer you can see that it's built with educational purposes in mind. As I said, there were three winners of an architectural competition that took place at the beginning of last century. Each wing has something that distinguishes it from the others, but overall it is a perfect example of Finnish neo-Romanticism. I was very sorry not to be able to go, because it seems that the way it's presented is quite fun. It has become the nation's
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