A Cloud Castle Magazine: Ateneum and The Hotel and Restaurant Museum

Our last visiting places were Ateneum and 'The Hotel and Restaurant Museum. I will introduce them for you now. Let's start from Ateneum.

Ateneum

Our guide showed us the PowerPoint from Sibelius, because topic of their changing exhibition is now Sibelius. When we were in auditorio they also made a tv-document from this event or this is how I understood it.

Anyway our guide had a lot information about Sibelius and after her presentation we were free to go watch exhibition from the Sibelius. Unfortunately it was not allowed to take pictures by Sibelius exhibition. But I took some pictures from downstairs where is paintings by Hugo Simberg. Many paints which topic is Kalevala.

The Wounded Angel is a painthing by symbolist painter Hugo Simberg. Year 1903

Ferdinand von Wright: Taistelevat metsot. Year 1886

Akseli Gallen-Kallela: Aino taru. Year 1891 It is first painting from Gallen-Kallela which topic was Kalevala.

Albert Edelfelt: Pariisin Luxembourgin puistossa, 1887.

Albert Edelfelt: leikkiviä poikiarannalla. Year 1884

The Hotel and Restaurant Museum

(ps.all my pictures under of this headline is from the museum)

It is in Ruoholahti. You will find it from the Cable Factory. This museum is investigating the history of restaurants and hotels. It opened it doors in year 2012. Now I will tell about our guided tour.

If I lost at least I will know where is Alko and A bar, right? ;)

A hotel dollhouse.

Why can't hotels be nowadays also this glamorous?

Here it is, A whole hotel dollhouse.

First our guide showed this dollhouse and she told a lot about it how things were almost 100 years ago. For example before buffets were public for a while. There was cold and hot foods together and you could take them as the same ways as nowadays. Then it didnt take much time people started to realize more about hygiene. This buffet table went out of fashion, because when food is a long time in table there is starting grow some bacteries.

After buffet they started to serve food in big dishes and everyone took food as much they needed. Actually this way also was not enough. Then 'A la carte' -food became to hotels and restaurants. But as you know, now in 2000-century buffets came back. They are very public on the ships.

Looks so good! ^^

This is an old vodka/alcohol hammer. In this time water was so dirty that people prefer to drink alcohol with food. They tought that in this way the won't get sick by drinking.

After the dollhouse we walked foward in front of the 'hotel room'.

About the hotel room our guide told that this was an example about Sokos Hotel Vaakuna, which was complited olympia year 1952. On her example in this room visited a woman. This woman was rich, because in this time normal people had no money to book a room from hotel.

There was also some rules for women. You could never go to eat to the restaurant without a man company. If you was hungry and you wanted to order something you needed to call with phone to chambermaid.

Believe me, it is so heavy!

An old kitchen

Here is an old kitchen. Usually many women works in there. But in a good hotel women always stayed in kitchen. They never could not be a waiter or it meaned that hotel is cheap. In their best hotel was three (***) stars hotel, where women were waiters.

In this time salary in kitchen and restaurant business was low. You could not feed your family with this salary and you needed to do extra work after work. Also workers could not eat same food as customers. Today this might be self-evident.

I never can do like this!

Cool

Then our guide leaded us to an old bar. There were some different kind of rules at this time. First if you wanted to drink alcohol you needed also order some food. But ofc people found out way to broke this rule. For the bar their customer were important and they watched under their fingers if people broke rules. Also in this way by time you can now order only alcohol if you like.

Then we visited in first Alko's in Finland. There was also some rules. You could not see bottles in Alko. Always you needed to be sure what to buy. You also had 'Alko pass' where cashier wrote date and what you bought this day. It was possible to visit in Alko one time per day. If you forgot something or you counted wrong you couldn't go back to Alko anymore.

Sometimes cashiers also watched what you bought and how much. If they doubted you might use too much alcohol then they tooked you to background and kept earful for you. "Don't use this much alcohol, it is not healty!"