Amos Rex

This guide to Amos Rex in Helsinki starts on the square above it, asking what might be hiding beneath your feet, and answers with the story of Amos Anderson, a Swedish-language newspaper editor by day and a theatre and art patron by night. You'll hear how his private collection of paintings and medals, built instead of a family, was left entirely to a foundation bearing his name after his death in 1961. It follows the collection's quiet decades inside his own house and its move in 2018 to Lasipalatsi, a building raised for an Olympics that arrived twelve years late. Look at the domes around you as you listen.