RESEARCH

Museums are memory organisations, along with libraries and archives. Museums maintain and augment their collections and related data resources. They monitor, document and study topical events and trends in culture, and present the results in exhibitions, publications and other media. Museums offer audiences refreshing experiences, aesthetic treats and ideas as well as information – if need be, they can offer challenges to match even the most inquisitive mind. Museums not only affirm old, established ideas and notions, they also examine new things, posing new questions and encouraging people to think, reflect on issues and adopt a stand of their own.

With its principal focus on contemporary art, the operations of the Pori Art Museum are divided into three main areas:

1. Communication
Presentations of collections and changing exhibitions, art education in its various forms, information services, as well as Finnish and international networks of interaction.

2. Documentation
Finnish and international contemporary art, art from the Satakunta region and regional collections.

3. Basic research
The collections deposited in the Pori Art Museum and the areas of art represented by them. Organising exhibitions, publishing and conducting research and cooperation projects.

Respecting the legacy of the life's work of Maire Gullichsen, the operative focus of the Pori Art Museum is on Finnish and international modern and contemporary art. This gives the museum a clear profile which has brought it national and international recognition in its own field of expertise. The Pori Art Museum has served as the art museum of the Satakunta region since 1982, being responsible in part for the documentation of regional art.