The Year of the Gnome

The Meilahti Art Museum has an upcoming exhibit of puutarhatontut, garden gnomes, titled "Paradise Garden". It's not on the website yet, but it opens on 9 June and closes on 19 September. Surprisingly, 2004 is also The Year of the Gnome. I'm surprised that the Gnome Liberation Front hasn't made the news, but if I see a few hanged garden gnomes swinging from the trees in the park it won't be much of a shock since gnome theft and torture is on the rise this year.