An overview of the Finnish National Gallery open data and materials at Hack4Fi – Hack your heritage, 2016, with Siina Hälikkä.

1. Finnish National Gallery
Data and Materials
Sanna Hirvonen, Kiasma
Siina Hälikkä, FNG Collections Management Department
Hack4FI / 5 Feb 2016

2. Over 37 000 works of art
Museum of Contemporary
Art Kiasma
Ateneum Art Museum Sinebrychoff Art Museum
Collection metadata http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/api
• Api + data packages
• CC0

3. Finnish State Art Commission
10 500 artworks
Collection metadata http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/vttk/api
• CC0

4. Architecture of Kiasma
Kiasma was designed by Steven Holl and completed in 1998. Photos: Finnish National Gallery / Petri Virtanen, Pirje Mykkänen CC BY 2.0
www.flickr.com/kiasmamuseum
• 100 photos from 1996–2014
• Captions on materials, details, architectural ideas
• CC BY 2.0

5. Photos on Wikimedia Commons
• Category:Media
released by FNG
• Mainly photos of
contemporary artists
and the Kiasma
building
• CC BY-SA 3.0

6. Photographs by Hugo Simberg
Finnish National Gallery Archive Collections
http://www.lahteilla.fi/simberg-data
•994 negatives taken by Finnish artist Hugo Simberg (1873–1917) + digitally made positives
•”Selfies”, artist working, art works, working process, family, summer life, travels, Helsinki, studios…
•More about Simberg as a photographer: http://www.lahteilla.fi/simberg/

7. Glass negatives by Daniel Nyblin
Finnish National Gallery Archive Collections
http://www.lahteilla.fi/nyblin-data/
•Unique collection of glass negatives by prominent early photographer Daniel Nyblin
(1856–1923) + positives + metadata
•Photos taken between 1879–1904
•Contemporary Finnish art from the turn of the 20th century: on glass negatives were
recorded newly completed or first-exhibited Finnish art works.

8. Historical Photos of Ateneum
• 13 high resolution pictures from 1894–1915
• CC-BY 2.0
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/finnishnationalgallery/albums/7215
7661957007454

9. More information
Sanna Hirvonen
@sannahirvonen | sanna.hirvonen@kiasma.fi
Janne Heinonen
@pikselia | janne.heinonen@kiasma.fi
Siina Hälikkä
siina.halikka@fng.fi