Poikilo Museums

Basic museum

Art museum and City museum at the same building. The atmosphere in art museum was nice. The entrance to the City museum was through a office building, not very exciting. A small museum shop.

Art and history under the same roof

The Poikilo Museums comprise the Kouvola Art Museum and the Kouvola City Museum in the Kouvola House. The exhibitions are changing. It is an interesting combination of art and history. The Art Muse...

A modest museum

I had little time left before my train was leaving, so I went to Poikolo Museot. The museum is rather modest, they have two small nice exhibitions, but there were rather few visitors. The museum is ho...

Art museum in the middle of no where

Beautiful city, ugly centrum. Strength of Kouvola is surrounding in a beautiful nature. Poikilo unfortunately tries to be world class art museum, which is not true. Focusing on local extraordinary wou...

Interesting exhibitions often with local point of view

There are actually two different museums, an art museum with exhibitions of all styles of art. Often they offer interesting viewpoints to local artists, but also some international artists as well. O...