Sibelius Monument

The Sibelius Monument (Finnish: Sibelius-monumentti, Swedish: Sibeliusmonumentet) is a public art memorial to the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, who died in 1957. Situated in Sibelius Park within the Töölö district of Helsinki, the monument is by the Finnish sculptor Eila Hiltunen, whose design—Passio Musicae (originally Credo)—won a two-round competition the Sibelius Society of Finland held from 1961 to 1962. After five additional years of work by Hiltunen and her assistants, the realized monument received its unveiling at a ceremony on 7 September 1967, when the Sibelius Society donated it to the City of Helsinki. As with other items in the city's art collection, it is managed and curated by the Helsinki Art Museum. The monument comprises two distinct elements, each installed on granite natural to the terrain. The first, original to Hiltunen's proposal, is an abstract welded cluster of 569 acid-resistant stainless steel pipes, decoratively textured and arranged in an undulating pattern; visitors can experience the art immersively by standing within the resulting cavity. Hiltunen intended the cluster, which measures 8.5 by 10.5 by 6.5 metres (28 ft × 34 ft × 21 ft) and weighs 24 tonnes (24 long tons, 26 short tons), to symbolically evoke Sibelius's music. Nevertheless, observers tend to find it representational of an organ or of the Finnish landscape, such as its birch woodla

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