Didrichsen Art Museum

This guide to the Didrichsen Art Museum in Helsinki centers on Gunnar and Marie-Louise Didrichsen, a trading-company owner and his wife with no formal art training, who bought nothing unless they both loved it. It follows how that one rule, agreed in the 1940s, carried them from Finnish landscape painting into Picasso, Miro and Giacometti, and then into pre-Columbian Mexico, Persia and China. It also traces the villa architect Viljo Revell built for them on the island of Kuusisaari starting in 1957, and the sculpture terrace overlooking Laajalahti Bay.