The artist and professor Jussi Mäntynen originally donated this work to the City of Turku as a plaster sculpture. It was later cast in bronze and transformed into a fountain sculpture depicting three cranes and installed in front of the then city hospital.

Captured in dramatic movement, the cranes proudly stretch their necks upwards.

Mäntynen, who also worked as a conservator, studied animal anatomy and species-specific behaviour in depth. His sculptures depicting swans and cranes have been interpreted as expressions of post-war grief and the search for inner peace, as well as reflections of the homesickness he experienced during his years in Sweden.