Photos of the Amos Rex museum in Helsinki and the teamLab exhibition, Finland

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Learn more about: Amos Rex, Amos Anderson Art Museum in Helsinki, Finland

The Amos Rex museum opened up in Helsinki at the end of summer 2018. The museum is an underground structure with unusual skylight tube-like windows going into the square above. In its permanent collection the gallery has the Sigurd Frosterus post-impressionist art on display in one room, and the rest of the museum's spaces are designed for visiting exhibitions, which are set to open 3 times per year.

The museum is a kids-friendly place and all children under the age of 18 get free admission, plus there are various workshops and seminars they can take part in at the beautifully designed Studio Rex.

The Japanese teamLab: Massless became the opening exhibition at the new museum from August 30 to January 6 of 2018. The teamLab show has 5 installations: the Enso (Japanese for circle and has to do with the Zen practice of drawing a circle with just one brushstroke), the Black Waves, the Graffiti Nature: Lost, Immersed and Reborn (where visitors can color their own butterflies, birds, lizards and crocodiles, scan and send them off into the flourishing jungle), Vortex of Light Particles (a vast digital installation site-specific to the main exhibition hall of Amos Rex), and the Crows are Chased and the Chasing Crows and Destines to be Chased as well, Transcending Space (this installation is rendered in real time, it is not a recorded loop and never repeats itself).