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Ainola — the home of Jean Sibelius — Virtual Finland |
 | | The place where Finland's greatest composer Jean Sibelius spent much of his life, the house named Ainola, after his wife Aino, is a destination of pilgrimage for music lovers in general and admirers of Sibelius in particular. |
| | Artistically talented and cerebral, she possessed the skills of the craftsman: hers were the designs for the staircase leading to the upper floor and for the kitchen cupboards and cabinets. |
| | In 1972, the Sibelius daughters together with the Ministry of Education and the Sibelius Society established the Ainola Foundation in order to preserve Ainola as a monument of cultural history and to keep the house open to the public, which it has been since 1974. |
| virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/ainola.html (1009 words) |
