My wife, Cody, and I try to travel around Finland as often as we can and although we have already been to many places outside of Helsinki and have lots of trip planned for the future, work keeps us here in the capital city a great deal of the time. Accordingly, every week we try to explore some lesser known treasure of Helsinki. So a few days ago Cody arranged a tour of the Sohlberg house museum which is a part of the Päivikki and Sakari Sohlberg Foundation. (Sakari was a justice of the Supreme Court, and his wife Päivikki, a referendary counsellor.) The foundation sponsors medical science and health care in Finland through generous grants. But it also preserves the large and wonderful apartment that was the Sohlberg home.
So off we went with the Spanish Ambassador, H.E. Ricardo Zalacain and his wife, Monica Espinos, Heidi Day (of the U.S. Embassy) and Octavian Balea (a photographer friend). The tour was lovely and fascinating – a real look into the private world of some important citizens whose lives covered a significant portion of the 20th century.
