The museum at Söderlångvik Manor, located in the main building, displays Amos Anderson’s art collection and information about his personal history. The museum was opened to the public in 1965 according to the wishes of Amos Anderson (1878–1961). The house underwent a thorough renovation in 2018–2021 when the interiors where restored to their original styles from the 1930s. The interior of Söderlångvik is mostly classic design featuring both antique furniture and period furniture (replicas made to imitate older styles). Most of Amos Anderson’s library is located here; the rest is in Amos’ apartment in Helsinki, which was opened as the museum Amos Andersons Hem in March 2023.

The permanent exhibition at Söderlångvik displays art from collections of the association Konstsamfundet. The selection mainly consists of Finnish art from 1900 to 1950. 

The interiors are special in many ways. The first thing visitors encounter in the museum’s entrance hall is Juho Rissanen’s recently cleaned Bretagne-Madonna. The Billiard Room is dominated by seating furniture that was originally intended to be used by Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, the would-be first king of Finland. The large dining room is furnished for 34 dinner guests, and there is a private cinema hidden in the basement. 

The museum annually organises one or more temporary exhibitions of contemporary art. The most unusual features of the museum are on the outside: the four caryatids—the female-shaped columns from the Swedish Theatre’s original façade from 1866 — have graced Amos Anderson’s garage since the mid-1930s, when the theatre was renovated. 

Come learn about Amos Anderson’s impressive life and see his extensive art collection as well as our exhibitions! We are open every day 11-17 from May to September, with the exception of Midsummer Fri-Sun.

Opening hours & entrance fees

Group bookings

More information about Amos Anderson (in Swedish and Finnish) is available at amoshem.fi. 

Waking dreams and other stories May 2^nd – December 14^th 2025

Söderlångvik Manor’s 2025 art exhibition invites visitors into the imaginative world of the sculptor Kim Simonsson. Both in the forest where the moss giants have taken root and throughout the museum, park and restaurant where nearly thirty sculptures are waiting to be discovered.

Preparations for the exhibition began two years ago, when a suitable forest was sought for the four giant moss children to settle in after being displayed in the city centre of Lille in France during its art festival in 2022. After spending a summer in Helsinki’s Lasipalatsi Square, they have finally returned to their natural habitat, where they remain and, in time, become covered with real moss. Overjoyed to see the forest again, they sing their song four times a day: at sunrise, noon, 3 p.m. and sunset. The wondrously peculiar music is composed by Perttu Haapanen.

As you enter the museum, you are greeted by a pitch-black slumbering giant named Waking Dream, seated atop an old Gothic table. She sets the tone for how effortlessly the many sculptures have found their place in the manor’s various halls and rooms. The artist has created small stories for every piece, where a child’s gaze, imagination and our relationship with nature are often the key themes.

Children and animals have long been central to Kim Simonsson’s work, and this exhibition is no exception. Most of the sculptures depicts children exploring the manor on their own terms: some cutting their hair, some finding hideaways beneath a pool table or in a nest made of cabbage leaves, while others have settled onto a bed or perched themselves on a mantelpiece.

Many of them seem tailor-made for the atmosphere at Söderlångvik Museum, with gilded and bronze-like surfaces or aesthetics inspired by ancient Rome. Others stand out as striking, bright green contrasts or shift the mood of the rooms around them. The dining room takes on a slightly ominous feel with the matte black silhouette-like sculptures lined up on its long table, and the four children in the chauffeur’s room create a rather eerie presence with their pitch-black stares.

You are warmly invited into Kim Simonsson’s curious and dreamlike world at Söderlångvik Manor!

The exhibition is open daily from May 2^nd to September 30^th and from Wednesday to Sunday during Lux Söderlångvik.

Exhibition in the restaurant

Niclas Warius: Vanitas Chimitoensis

The series Vanitas Chimitoensis came about when photographer Niclas Warius (b. 1972) searched for the soul of businessman and art patron Amos Anderson (1878-1961) at his former summer residence Söderlångvik in the autumn of 2018. The place, which had recently closed its doors for a three-year renovation, was in many ways in a poor and worn condition. Warius rummaged through the building from attic to basement looking for signs and clues, objects and moods for his still lifes. The artist’s imagination combined with the environment of Söderlångvik to create captivating and enigmatic works that, instead of luxurious facades, depict something bizarre and twisted. The mood of the images is calm, melancholic and nostalgic, time seems to stand still. We don’t really know which decade we are in. 

The series of symbolic still lifes is one of Niclas Warius’ extensive production with a vanitas theme that has been shown in many exhibitions in Finland and Sweden. Vanitas paintings deal with the transience of worldly wealth and were popular especially in the Netherlands in the 17th century.

Niclas Warius’ exhibition Vanitas Chimitoensis is shown at the restaurant at Söderlångvik since the summer of 2019.

Park

From the house, you can enjoy a beautiful view of the garden that Paul Olsson designed in the 1930s. A fountain called “Nyckeln” meaning “The Key” was built at that time. Over the years, the park has gone through many changes, but the aim has been to preserve parts of the original design. Many of the trees on the big lawn were planted by guests of Amos Anderson. During the large renovation project 2019–2021, the park was restored to its former glory as well with the recunstrutions of the old colonnades, more paths and flowers. Visit our many sculptures, the old Plum Garden that helps us maintain the biodiversity or get to know more about Amos Anderson and the history of the manor by following the Park Trails signs.