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The National Museum of Finland




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Kimmo Huosionmaa

Thinking about the shape of the National Museum of Finland is a very fascinating trip to the mind of the architect. This building is a national monument in Helsinki, and it locates near the House of the Parliament, and it's very easy to find. That building is made by three Finnish architects, Gesellius (1), Lindgren (2), and Saarinen (3), who are very famous for their works. In the national museum is the story of the history of Finland, and it's a very popular place to visit.


Sometimes I have thought about the profile of that building and noticed the tower's similarity with the rocket, what is in the cover page of the book "Ulos Avaruuteen".  I know that this is only a coincidence, but there is the very big similarity with the rocket, what is in that book's cover page and the tower of National Museum. This kind of things makes the world a very interesting place to live and give the direction for living.



I know, that this feels crazy, but this tower brings an idea in my mind, that maybe Geselius and his fellows planned space rockets in secrecy, but I know that I have very good imagination. That would be a good topic for some political thriller, and maybe in some day, somebody would write a story of three architects, who would draw rockets, and cover that thing as the plans of the tower of the National Museum.


And maybe the writer would use early deaths of those men as the murder, what causes, that somebody wanted to hide something. In real life Herman Gesellius (1874-1916) died at the age of 42. Armas Lindgren (1874-1929) age of 55 and Eliel Saarinen  (1873-1950) age of 77. Sometimes I have thought that maybe Gesellius and Lindgren would hide some of their projects from Saarinen, whose home language was Finnish. Maybe Gesellius and Lindgren were in the same class, and they had connections from that time, and Saarinen was little bit outsider because he was born in the different year. But this is only the speculation and those years of the born was only coincidence.


And the broken relationship between those men tells that there were problems. Only Saarinen saw old age, but as you see, both of his colleagues have not died extraordinary young. If they have smoked tobacco all of their life, that would cause cancer and death. But sometimes I have thought that did somebody put some chemicals in the Gesellius cigarettes causing the death at the age 42. But that is only thinking, and those architects were cremated after death and their ashes were laid in the lake of Hvittrask near Helsinki, a place where they spend their young-hood.


(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Gesellius

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armas_Lindgren

(3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliel_Saarinen


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