Finland s museums are hoping for a record-breaking summer as art-starved visitors return.
Works by British artist Banksy are coming to a Finnish museum this summer.
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Tickets for a Banksy exhibition opening in May have sold out just under a month before the show opens its doors.
The exhibition, A Visual Protest: The Art of Banksy is being held at the Serlachius Museum in Mänttä, 270 kilometres north of Helsinki.
While admission is free, the museum requires visitors to book in advance, with no more time slots currently available.
Finland s museums are hoping for a record-breaking summer after months of coronavirus restrictions pushed visitor numbers down.
The Serlachius Museum brings a Banksy exhibition to Pirkanmaa in 2021.
A Visual Protest: The Art of Banksy will be on display in Mänttä in 2021.
Image: Päivi Viherkoski / Serlachius-museot
Next summer a Banksy exhibition comes to Finland to be shown free of charge at the Serlachius Museum in Mänttä.
The decision to make entry exhibition free of charge was made in recognition of Banksy s opposition to commercialism. He s a revolutionary artist who opposes authorities, all business and also the museum world, for example in entrance fees, said
Pauli Sivonen, who leads the Serlachius Museums organisation. We want to respect the artist s wishes in this, so we are abandoning entrance fees while the exhibition is on and we won t sell any products based on his work.