the story of another famous Finn, the poet Eino Leino. Ida Aalberg Foundation and Ida Aalberg Society The memory of Ida Aalberg is kept alive by the Ida Aalberg Foundation in Helsinki (1957) and the Ida Aalberg Society in Janakkala (1985). Ida Aalberg Foundation awards a biannual Ida Aalberg Acting Prize, which is the largest single prize in the theatre in Finland (15000 euros in 2007). In 1959 the Foundation announced an open competition for a monument and after various phases, including a follow-up competition, commissioned from sculptor Raimo Utriainen his winning work, The Curtain. It took 15 years from the initial idea in 1957 - centennial of Ida Aalberg's birth - until the monument was finally put up. Gallery See also Maria Silfvan Hedvig Raa-Winterhjelm References External links Ida Aalberg, A short biography, Kansallisbiografia – The National Biography of Finland, edited by the Finnish Historical Society Stories of important historical figures from Häme Ida Aalberg Foundation (in Finnish) 1857 births 1915 deaths People from Janakkala People from Häme Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Finnish stage actresses 19th-century Finnish actresses 19th-century Finnish people Burials at Hietaniemi Cemetery