Open Door Day / Long Live Wivi Lönn!
Location: large exhibition hall
Free of charge
Long live Wivi Lönn! Long live Architecta! Long live the women architects! Long live gender equality in architecture!
Long Live Wivi Lönn! exhibition can be visited in advance on the “open door day”, on Thursday 28 April, 2022, from 3pm to 6 pm. The discussion guide Kaura Raudaskoski and the curators of exhibition Anna Autio, Jutta Tynkkynen, Hanna Tyvelä and Marja Rautaharju will be present throughout the day.
Welcome!
Long Live Wivi Lönn!
29 April, 2022 – 8 January, 2023
Wivi Lönn celebrated her 70th birthday on May 20th 1942 at the Lallukka Artists’ Home in Helsinki. The celebration was attended by 46 female architects from all over Finland, and the event was the starting point for the activities of Architecta, the Finnish Association of Women Architects. Eighty years have passed since that celebration, which in itself is worth celebrating!
In 2022 the Museum of Finnish Architecture in turn will celebrate both the 150th anniversary of the birth of Wivi Lönn, Finland’s most important female architect, and the 80th anniversary of Architecta, with an extensive programme that will examine the work of women architects in Finland and equality issues related to their work.
In honour of Wivi Lönn’s birthday, the Museum of Finnish Architecture is also organizing a weekend-long festival on 20.–22.5.2022, where participants, gathering together around the work of Wivi Lönn and her followers, will reflect in a multidisciplinary way on the relationship between architecture and gender as well as equity more broadly in the fields of art and culture.
The festival celebration replaces the traditional opening ceremony. You are warmly welcome to the Long Live Wivi Lönn! Festival Party on Friday 20 May, 2022 at 6pm. Pre-register for the party and see the full festival programme at: https://www.mfa.fi/…/learn…/long-live-wivi-lonn-festival/
Accessibility and health safety
The event is free of charge. There will be no interpretation or live captioning for the event. The discussion guide is fluent in English and in Finnish. More information on the accessibility of the Museum of Finnish Architecture can be found here. Visitors over 12-year-old are recommended to wear a face mask. More information on health-safe museum visits can be found here. The Museum of Finnish Architecture uses the principles of a safer space, to which we commit to in all museum activities. More information can be found here.
For more information
Jemina Lindholm
Manager of Learning and Public Programmes
Museum of Finnish Architecture
+358 45 7731 0476
jemina.lindholm@mfa.fi