📋 Tender Overview
The establishment of the new Museum of Architecture and Design is progressing to the project phase which aims to establish a new museum. The Ministry of Education and Culture and the City of Helsinki have set up a steering group to prepare and guide the establishment of a new Museum of Architecture and Design. Timo Laitinen Director General of the State Treasury has been invited to chair the steering group. Kaarina Gould will start as the project manager on May 1 2021.The new museum would represent international excellence in terms of quality visibility and impact and would act as the national responsibility museum in its field in Finland. The museum would combine the operations staff and collections of the two existing national museums.A new foundation would be established for the museum which would take over the collections of the existing museum foundations. The state and the city of Helsinki would capitalize the museum foundation in equal shares. In the fourth draft supplementary budget for 2020 the state decided that the government would commit to recapitalize the new museum foundation with a maximum of 60 million euros. Timo Laitinen to chair the project steering groupThe tasks of the steering group include guiding and promoting the project and its objectives coordinating the project in cooperation with the project manager directing the study and planning work related to the foundation planning and preparation of the construction project planning of measures.Timo Laitinen Director General of the State Treasury has been invited to chair the steering group. Other members are Riitta Kaivosoja Director General and Pivi Salonen Cultural Affairs Adviser at the Ministry of Education and Culture Annika Klimenko Deputy Budget Manager at the Ministry of Finance Tommi Laitio Director of the Museum Design Museum Chairman of the Board Anna Valtonen from the Design Museum Foundation and CEO Mirkku Kullberg Glasshouse Helsinki Chairman of the Board Ari Tolppanen from Aristo-Invest Oy and CEO Jannica Fagerholm Signe and Ane Gyllenbergs Stiftelse.The term of office of the steering group is 24.3.202131.12.2023.Kaarina Gould is the project managerGould who has extensive experience in management in the fields of art design and culture will take over as project director from the position of the director of the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York. Previously Gould has worked e.g. Live Nation Finland as Development Director World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 Program Director Cirko Center for Contemporary Circus Center and Program Manager for the Helsinki Festival Weeks. Gould will start as project manager on May 1 2021.The project organization will initially work as part of the City of Helsinki but will later be transferred to a new foundation-based museum foundation. The project manager reports on the progress of project preparation to the project steering group.
