Amos Rex

Amos Rex is an art museum at Mannerheimintie 22-24 in central Helsinki, Finland, built underneath Lasipalatsi square beside the functionalist Lasipalatsi (Glass Palace) building. It opened in 2018 in a design by the Helsinki architects JKMM, and its most recognisable feature is a field of rounded skylight domes and cones that rise out of the paving of the square above. Children and adults alike climb and sit on the domes, and from inside, the domes work as curved light wells above the galleries. The museum is run by the Amos Anderson Art Foundation and shows large-scale modern and contemporary exhibitions that change several times a year, often with immersive or digital installations such as those from international collectives. The main exhibition hall below ground has a very high ceiling and an open plan, with the domes shaping the light. The ground-level Lasipalatsi building houses a cafe, a cinema and a media centre, so the square forms a natural meeting point. A typical visit takes 1.5 to 2 hours. Tickets cost about €22 at the museum and €20 online, ages 18-29 pay about €5, and visitors under 18 enter free. The museum is closed on Tuesdays and opens at 11:00 on other days, with exhibition changeovers causing short closures, so amosrex.fi should be checked ahead of a visit. Weekday afternoons are generally quiet, while weekends and school holidays draw more families. Photo angles are best from the far end of the square looking toward the domes with the Lasipalatsi building behind, and from the interior looking up through the skylights on a bright day. Kamppi metro station is a 3-minute walk, and the Central Station is about 5 minutes away, so the museum sits easily in a walking route with Kiasma and the Oodi library.