Guggenheim Helsinki plans rejected by city council

A last-ditch attempt to establish a Guggenheim museum in Finland with public money was definitively rejected by Helsinki City Council yesterday (30 November). Councillors voted 53 to 32 against the latest proposalthe third since 2011to develop a satellite of the US-based Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in the Finnish capital. The revised plan had narrowly won approval from the Helsinki City Board on 21 November, following the Finnish governments decision in September not to give 40m towards th