Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art

Kiasma is open from morning until late at night. The Museum offers exhibitions, interdisciplinary artistic projects, performance art, dance, music, media art and films. Kiasma's world is also made up of conversational interludes, encounters with artists, festivals, seminars, familiarization with the web, browsing in the bookstore, and workshop experiments.
Kiasma is an ensemble in continuous movement where performances and projects live, overlap and intertwine at different speeds. Collections and large-scale exhibitions are showcased for a longer period of time while the shorter life-spans of smaller exhibitions and theatre pieces attest to a more rapid cycle. Kiasma lives also very much in the here and now, reacting and commenting on the events and phenomena of the day when the need arises, for example.
Even though Kiasma comes across as new, strange, and different in the beginning, it does not necessarily feel foreign. As a compass, the visitor is given various channels. One can familiarize oneself with Kiasma beforehand through the Internet. The Museum's entrance hall is a free zone where one can choose a specific area of interest from the panoply of Museum offerings with the aid of intranet and other guide material. With Kiasma, there is no single right way of seeing or experiencing.The most important thing is to provide space and possibilities for different thoughts, ideas, and values. And let the journey of discovery begin.