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Uusi klinikka, Unioninkatu 33

Helsinki

Why visit

Designed by Ernst B. Lohrmann and completed in 1848, this Empire-style clinic held wards for internal medicine and surgery and the university's medical teaching — a cornerstone of early Finnish hospital care on Unioninkatu.

Look for: At the door, recall that the clinic's first director was Immanuel Ilmoni, professor of internal medicine; in 1982 the building was renovated for the Bank of Finland.

About this site

An Empire-style hospital building designed by Ernst B. Lohrmann in 1842 and completed in 1848. The New Clinic, i.e. the clinical institute, comprised departments for internal medicine and surgery as well as the university's medical teaching activities. The institution's first director was the professor of internal medicine Immanuel Ilmoni.

The New Clinic subsequently specialised as a hospital for internal medicine. The building was comprehensively renovated in 1982 for the Bank of Finland (architect Heikki Elomaa).

Official description (Museovirasto) — machine-translated from Finnish