Tamminiemi
| Tamminiemi | |
|---|---|
| Villa Ekudden | |
 | |
.svg.png)  Location in Helsinki  Tamminiemi (Finland) | |
| Alternative names | Urho Kekkonen Museum |
| General information | |
| Type | Museum (since 1987) |
| Architectural style | Jugend |
| Location |
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| Address | Seurasaarentie 15 |
| Coordinates | 60°11′23″N 24°52′59″E / 60.18963°N 24.88311°ECoordinates: 60°11′23″N 24°52′59″E / 60.18963°N 24.88311°E |
| Current tenants | Urho Kekkonen Museum |
| Completed | 1904 |
| Opened | 1987 (as a museum) |
| Renovated | 2009–2012 |
| Owner | Government of Finland |
| Technical details | |
| Floor area | 450 square metres (4,800 sq ft) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect |
Sigurd Frosterus Gustaf Strengell |
| Website | |
| Urho Kekkonen Museum | |
Tamminiemi (Villa Ekudden in Swedish) is a villa and museum located in the Meilahti district of Helsinki, Finland. It was one of the three official residences of the President of Finland, from 1940 until 1981. From 1956, until his death, it served as the residence of President Urho Kekkonen. It is now the Urho Kekkonen Museum. It is located in a park by the sea. Tamminiemi's floor area is about 450 square metres (4,800 sq ft).
Designed by architects Sigurd Frosterus and Gustaf Strengell, the jugendstil villa was built in 1904 for the Danish-born businessman Jörgen Nissen. The villa was later owned or rented by a number of individuals, before being acquired by the publisher and artistic patron Amos Anderson in 1924. Anderson donated Tamminiemi to the Finnish State in 1940, to serve as a presidential residence.
Although Presidents Ryti (1940–1944) and Mannerheim (1944–1946) resided at Tamminiemi while President Paasikivi preferred to use the Presidential Palace as his official residence during his presidency (1946–1956), the villa is particularly associated with President Kekkonen – due in large part to the fact that it was his official residence and home for around thirty years; during his period in office between 1956 and 1981, after which it was his private nursing home until his death in 1986.
In 1987, Tamminiemi was made into the Urho Kekkonen Museum. It is furnished the way it was in Kekkonen's time in the 1970s. In 1989, construction of the new presidential residence called Mäntyniemi started.
Tamminiemi also has a famous sauna in a separate building which Kekkonen built soon after being elected President in 1956. Kekkonen used the sauna to entertain his guests, including many Soviet leaders such as Nikita Khrushchev.[1] Nowadays the sauna can be rented for private parties.
References
- ↑ "Tamminiemen saunassa". Yle.fi (in Finnish). 6 June 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
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