Föreningen Konstsamfundet (lit. "The Art Foundation Association") is a
Finnish association with the goal of supporting the culture of the
Swedish-speaking minority of Finland. It was founded in 1940 by ''
vuorineuvos''
Amos Anderson
Amos Valentin Anderson (3 September 1878, Kimito, Finland – 2 April 1961, Kimito, Finland) was the owner of Finland's largest Swedish-language newspaper, Hufvudstadsbladet, and a patron of the arts.
Amos Anderson grew up in the Southwestern Arch ...
, a newspaper publisher and a patron of the arts who bequeathed his entire fortune to Konstsamfundet.
Konstsamfundet owns and operates the
Amos Anderson Art Museum Amos Rex is an art museum named after publisher and arts patron Amos Anderson located in Lasipalatsi, Mannerheimintie, Helsinki, Finland. It opened in 2018 and rapidly reached international popularity, attracting more than 10,000 visitors in a mat ...
in
Helsinki,
the largest private art museum in Finland. It is also the sole owner of the Swedish-language ''
Hufvudstadsbladet'' newspaper in Finland.
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Konstsamfundet{{in lang, sv
Swedish-speaking population of Finland
Finnish culture