The flood waters damaged or destroyed many of the aquarium's electrical systems, along with damaging the interior of most exhibition buildings.

WSJ: Aquarium Reopening in Spring After Repairs

The museum's permanent exhibition is dedicated to Aalto's buildings and interior design pieces, as well as his personal life.

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The exhibition's pictures from this period, such as his Bauhausian shot of the interior of the Anhalter Bahnhof railway terminus, show his curiosity and humor, and that he had absorbed the modernist aesthetic being developed in Weimar Germany.

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