Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma

This guide to Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki opens with the 1992 competition that drew over five hundred anonymous entries and handed the commission to Steven Holl, an American academic Helsinki's press mocked on arrival. You'll hear how his curling glass and zinc design collided with the bronze equestrian statue of wartime marshal Mannerheim standing nearby, and the public fury that followed his proposal to move it. It follows the petitions, redesigns and family consultations that dragged through the recession years of the 1990s. Stand near the statue as you take it in.