I'll think of something later

This is the last entry on Ainola, I promise. And it might seem to be a bit of an empty shell, like the violin case above. It's preciou...

Erkerstadt or 'town of oriel windows' has long been the well-deserved nickname of Schaffhausen, thanks to the 170-odd adornments ...

In addition to John Munsterhjelm's 1909 bronze of the composer - into which Sibelius inserted a lucky horseshoe - two of the most impor...

Without quite understanding why or necessarily believing, I always find the space between Good Friday and Easter Sunday the best limbo of t...

The gramophone collection at Ainola is mostly a comprehensive collection of Sibelius's own music, in test pressings and finished 78s. ...

When friends Lars and Jan bought tickets for a pub-theatre adaptation of E M Forster's coming-out classic - J's battered but treasu...

This atmospheric gouache on paper by Lennart Segerstrale hangs above the entrance to the Ainola dining room. It has a special meaning for ...

Until I had a closer look at it with my BBC Symphony class, I'd been sad at the prespect of missing Friday's Barbican concert perfor...