Digital Interactive: Aino Marsio’s Travel Sketchbook, 1921

A full reproduction of Aino Marsio’s travel sketchbook. The first half of this book traces Marsio’s study trip to Germany, Austria, and Italy in 1921, following her graduation from the Polytechnic Institute of Helsinki. The second half of the sketchbook follows Marsio’s travels in Ostrobothnia, a region in western Finland, where she made sketches of interiors, rubbings from gravestones, and meticulous ground plans of farms.

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Digital Interactive: Aino Marsio-Aalto’s Diary, 1931–36

A selection of pages from Aino Marsio-Aalto’s diary, recording travel to Amsterdam in 1931; to London in 1933; to Paris, Brussels, Zurich, Ascona, and Stockholm in 1935; and finally to Milan in 1936.

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