The location of the Museum in an active harbour offers a unique possibility to extend it to a Museum Ship. Helsinki museums can share cultural projects with the many port cities and towns of Finland quite conveniently; and perhaps with other port cities of the Baltic and beyond. Helsinki could initiate a new era of travelling exhibitions.

The intention is to create a simple place of enduring value for the city; a place that is approachable and which people can claim as their own. A place that can evolve with changing needs of Helsinki and of the art-world.

The program is fragmented in distinct blocks grouping relevant program components along the Central Gallery that acts like an internal street and offers the excitement of the outdoors with the comfort of the indoors. The museum is in itself a 'morceau de ville'. The Annex building stands independently at the southern edge between the Aalto Garden and the Waterfront plaza. The 3 courtyards between the building blocks and the Central Gallery will host outdoor projects: installations, sculptures, performances, events etc. that can further extend on to the urban park if need be.