Eero Eerikäinen and Oskari Jauhiainen: Memorial for Seafarers, 1968. © Photo: HAM Helsinki Art Museum / Maija Toivanen Merenkulun muistomerkki/ Memorial for Seafarers Artist Eero Eerikäinen, Oskari Jauhiainen Ursininkallio, Merisatamanranta, Eira, Helsinki Sculptor Oskari Jauhiainen and Architecht Eero Eerikäinen designed this concrete memorial in 1968 to commemorate Finnish seafarers. A perpetual flame burns on top of the monument. The memorial also includes a bronze compass with the inscription “Suomen merenkulkijoille Finlands sjöfarare MCMMLXVIII” – In Memory of Finnish Seafarers, 1968. In 1984, the Finnish Seamen’s Mission revealed a copper plaque, designed by Oskari Jauhiainen, commemorating sailors who drowned when M/S Malmi sank on the Baltic Sea on 17 December 1979. The work belongs to the City of Helsinki’s art collection, which is managed and curated by HAM. Read more.. At map
