The museum’s ground floor has foreign paintings, notably by French artists (Degas, Gauguin, Matisse, Picasso); upstairs are Finnish paintings dating from 1850 to 1940. This major collection has works by talented Finnish artists like Fanny Churberg, A..

Cast brass doors (1929) lead into the museum ; they depict the inauguration of the court of appeal of Korsholm in 1776 and the fire of 1852. The regional history section evokes Vaasa's golden age at the time of the tar trade (16C-18C) and displays..

This group of commercial buildings , on the eastern side of the market place, was constructed between 1958 and 1962 according to plans drawn up by Viljo Revell (1910-1964), a great Finnish architect and native of Vaasa. The buildings constitute a ..

Built in 1883 in neo-Renaissance style and based on plans drawn up by M Isaeus, Vaasa's town hall is a good example of late-19C civil architecture.