Tennispalatsi (; lit. ''Tennis Palace''), is an enclosed cultural and recreational center in

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. It houses a Finnkino multiplex movie theatre, the Helsinki City Art Museum, the Museum of Cultures, and small shops. Tennispalatsi was built in 1938 in preparation for the 1940 Summer Olympics. The functionalist building, which had four

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courts, was designed by Helge Lundström. In the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics (, ), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad (, ) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952, were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland. After Japan declared in ...

the

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preliminary games were held in Tennispalatsi.

Movie theatre complex

Finnkino has a 14-theatre

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in Tennispalatsi. It was opened on 26 February 1999. The theater sizes are from 92 to 703 seats. The largest theater has a screen of (). All the rooms use

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, DTS and

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technologies. They also fulfill the THX standards although they are no longer THX certified after Finnkino quit paying the THX licensing fees in 2004; the THX logos no longer are used in Tennispalatsi or Finnkino's marketing. Tennispalatsi is one of the two big Finnkino movie theatre multiplexes in Helsinki, along with Kinopalatsi. According to Finnkino, it was the world's first movie theatre to utilize THX and SDDS in all its auditoriums.

References

External links

Tennis Palace Art Museum - Building and History1952 Summer Olympics official report.
p. 57.
Official site at FINNKINO
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