Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation

The Foundation awards scholarships and prizes on an annual basis on October 9, the birthday of Antti Wihuri.

Since 1957, the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation has built up a large collection of Finnish contemporary art.

In 1983, the Foundation’s Board of Directors donated nearly 500 pieces of the collection to the City of Rovaniemi on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Atti Wihuri’s birth.

The Fund’s purpose is to distribute international awards, notably the Wihuri Sibelius Prize in recognition of creative work that has specially furthered and developed the cultural and economic progress of mankind.

These prizes may be awarded to private individuals or organizations regardless of nationality, religion, race or language.

The Wihuri Research Institute is located in Biomedicum Helsinki , at the Meilahti Academic Medical Center.
Antti Wihuri handing over the Wihuri Sibelius Prize to Paul Hindemith in 1955. In the back President Juho Kusti Paasikivi .