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Design competition to be held for the grave memorial for former President of the Republic of Finland Mauno Koivisto

Government Communications Department
Publication date 4.12.2017 15.47 | Published in English on 4.12.2017 at 18.21
Press release 569/2017

The committee set up in August by the Prime Minister’s Office for the purpose of arranging a grave memorial for former President of the Republic of Finland Mauno Koivisto is to hold a design competition for the design of the memorial.

The competition will be announced officially on 2 January 2018. The grave memorial committee, headed by Permanent State Under-Secretary Timo Lankinen, will invite all professional Finnish artists and professional foreign artists permanently resident in Finland to take part in the competition. The best entries will be announced in April 2018. The aim is that the grave memorial will be ready and in place at the Hietaniemi Cemetery next year, 2018, for the date of Mauno Koivisto’s birthday, 25 November.

Inquiries: Sanna Helopuro, Senior Ministerial Advisor, committee secretary, tel. +358 29 5160 170, Prime Minister's Office