Discover Finnish Museums!
Search for museums, exhibitions, events and cultural routes all over Finland. Find the best holiday ideas and spontaneous everyday activities.
Search for museums, exhibitions, events and cultural routes all over Finland. Find the best holiday ideas and spontaneous everyday activities.
The Museum Card allows you to visit magnificent museums.
Please note, that the museums are updating their sites at museot.fi, and some of the information can only be found in Finnish.
Experience nature in Kuusamo as never before in Finland's first nature photography centre.
Kuusamo
Aboa Vetus Ars Nova is a museum of archeology and contemporary art situated in Turku. The museum includes a unique setting of a ruined medieval quarter of Turku.
Turku
Ahola exhibits the life of two artists, painter Venny Soldan-Brofeld and her husband Juhani Aho, first Finnish professional novelist who wrote his work in Finnish.
Järvenpää
The Air Defence Museum is spread over two exhibition halls, an official military residence from the early 18th century and the outdoor exhibition space.
Tuusula
What is life like in the north of the globe? Discover the everyday life in the Arctic, the lifestyles of northern peoples, and the new challenges facing the region, such as climate change and globalization.
Rovaniemi
The Ateneum is Finland’s best-known art museum and the home of Finnish art. Closed from 1 to 20 December 2020 to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
Helsinki
The Degerby Igor museum tells stories of human interest about the lease period of Porkkala 1944-1956. This area, very close to Helsinbki, was leased to the Soviet Union after WW2.
Inkoo
Design museum tells the story of the Classics of Finnish Design. Visit the museum in Helsinki Design District!
Helsinki
The Didrichsen Art Museum is a unique combination of art museum and a private home on Kuusisaari island.
Helsinki
EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art is one of the most important art museums in Finland.
Espoo
All Espoo City Museum's public spaces are closed due to the decision made by Metropolitan Area coronavirus coordination group from November 30th, 2020 until January 10th, 2021.KAMU brings Espoo's history to life.
Espoo
A presentation of Finnish aviation history from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day.
Jyväskylä
Sarka is the national museum of agriculture.
Loimaa
The exhibitions at the Natural History Museum showcase biological diversity from Finland and other parts of the world.
Helsinki
Finnish railway history in 19th century station milieu
Hyvinkää
A museum for the whole family!
Espoo
Explore the life of the famous Fiskars ironworks village from 17th century to this day.
Raasepori
Welcome to the City of Colourful Cloth! And to hear of the times when the river through the city of Forssa flowed blue, green or red, depending on the dyeing factory on its shore.
Forssa
Here begins the sea! Forum Marinum is a lively and versatile centre for maritime activities. During summer you can also visit the many impressive museum ships by the river!
Turku
The museum´s changing exhibitions present the art of Akseli Gallen-Kallela and his contemporaries as well as contemporary art having points of contact with the life´s work of Akseli Gallen-Kallela.
Espoo
Haltia - The Finnish Nature Centre, is a sustainable nature and outdoor center and the gate to Nuuksio National Park in Espoo, where you can get a real experience of the Finnish nature.
Espoo
Irma Bunker's unique atmosphere offers a good look at what life on the front was during war time in Finland.
Hanko
The Helinä Rautavaara Museum has moved to Espoon keskus. Warmly welcome!
Espoo
The world's only museum focusing on Helsinki.
Helsinki
The astronomy visitor centre of the Helsinki University Museum. Welcome to the journey through light years!
Helsinki
Heureka - The joy of discovery and fun experiences for all ages! Please note: HEUREKA IS CLOSED until March 31, 2021 as a COVID-19 precaution!All tickets must be purchased or booked in advance via Heureka’s online ticket shop.
Vantaa
Hämeenlinna City Museums exhibitions, shop and lounge.
Hämeenlinna
Living Home & Museum – experiences and culture since 1593
Somero
The museum presents the development, equipment and activities of the Finnish infantry from Swedish era to the present day.
Mikkeli
The childhood home of writer Kalle Päätalo (1919-2000).
Taivalkoski
Discover a century of activity in the Ebeneser Kindergarten!
Helsinki
Peasant life, everyday life and celebration, from Kuusamo in the first decades of the 20th century.
Kuusamo
Käsityönmuseo Miila tells the story of the long history of crafts and their meaning in everyday life.
Paimio
The Lotta-Svärd organization was the largest women's voluntary national defence organization in the world.
Tuusula
The unique manor home of the Flemings and the Mannerheims lets you experience the life of a 17th–19th century noble family.
Masku
Lusto is a national museum and science centre of international importance focusing on Finnish forest culture.
Savonlinna
Maritime Centre Vellamo is an attraction full of stories of the sea and the local region.
Kotka
In Military Museum´s Manege you can familiarise yourself with the history of the Finnish Defence Forces during 100 years.
Helsinki
The museum displays gemstones as well as synthetic stones, minerals, ores, metals, building and decorative stones as well as meteorites from 80 countries.
Tampere
At the Moomin museum you step into an exciting magical world of Tove Jansson’s Moomin books.
Tampere
Hämeenlinna
The Museum of Central Finland specializes in cultural history.
Jyväskylä
The museum of Technology presents the history of technology and industry as a story about Finland and the Finns – bringing the stories to life. It is the only general museum of technology in Finland. The Museom of Technology is closed 28.11.2020-5.4.2021!
Helsinki
Möhkö ironworks was in operation during the period of 1838-1907.
Ilomantsi
The North Karelian Museum is located in the centre of Joensuu, in the Carelicum building.
Joensuu
The history of the Nurmes area is presented from the prehistory to the present day trough objects and photographs.
Nurmes
Open air museum about the life of early 20th century tenant farmers in eastern Finland.
Nurmes
The origin of a thousand stories and the site of numerous battles, Olavinlinna Castle is one of the best-known sights in Finland.
Savonlinna
Finnish mining industry from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day.
Outokumpu
The museum is located by the Nordkalk limestone quarry.
Paraisten kaupunki
At Parppeinvaara you'll find a collection of historic buildings based on the theme of local tradition.
Ilomantsi
In the Crown Granary, you can learn more about Raahe´s history, from prehistory to the present day.
Raahe
Rauma Maritime Museum offers a view to the medieval town to which sea and seafaring have always been vitally important.
Rauma
The history of the town of Riihimäki in an idyllic setting at the Rautatienpuisto park.
Riihimäki
RIISA is a museum with a soul.
Kuopio
Salo
Sastamala
Building Heritage House Toivo is a restoration centre of the Satakunta Museum.
Pori
The Lake Saimaa Nature and Museum Centre is a charming meeting spot and exhibition site next to Olavinlinna castle, in the heart of Old Savonlinna.
Savonlinna
Experiences for the whole family! The science center offers 150 activity points and a 3D-cinema. A glass elevator ride takes you up the 45 meter tall tower.
Oulu
See the forest like you've never seen it before - at the Science Centre Pilke
Rovaniemi
Dramatised history and art in the former head office of the Serlachius paper company.
Mänttä-Vilppula
First museum of global espionage in the world.
Tampere
Come and experience life as it may have been at the turn of the 20th century in the countryside in Swedish-speaking Ostrobothnia.
Mustasaari
Pukstaavi, The Museum of Finnish Book offers knowledge and experiences to all who are interested in books and reading, regardless of age.
Sastamala
Home to seven museums and changing exhibitions, Museum Center Vapriikki offers things to do and see for the whole family.
Tampere
The museum shows a traditional peasant home with the front-room decorated as a wedding-room.
Vaasa
The museum is a specialized museum for craft covering entire Finland.
Jyväskylä
The Finnish Museum of Games tells the story of the Finnish gaming culture. At the museum visitors get to try games from different time periods in authentic environments.
Tampere
The Finnish Museum of Horology is specialised in timepieces and the history of measuring time.
Espoo
Collections are owned by the Nature Conservation Society of South-West Häme, founded in 1951 by professor Torild Brander.
Forssa
The museum presents 10 000 years of Finnish hunting with different kinds of traps and weapons.
Riihimäki
The Maritime Museum of Finland is a national maritime museum, located in the Maritime Centre Vellamo in Kotka.
Kotka
The Museum of Kymenlaakso is situated in the Maritime Centre Vellamo at the old City Port of Kotka.
Kotka
Salla museum of war and reconstruction is located in the vicinity of the village of Salla at the area of Salla’s former railway station.
Salla
The only four-masted merchant sailing ship in the world still in its original state.
Maarianhamina
A museum specialized in leatherwork, tools, leather industry. Related litterature.
Ulvila
The Sagalund Museum - no matter what age you are! One of the oldest and largest open-air museums in Finland.
Kemiönsaari
Museum is closed due to renovation and will be opened again in May 2021.
Kemiönsaari
A cultural meeting place in Tapiola. Closed from 1st December 2020 to 31 March 2021 to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
Espoo
Closed 30.11.2020-9.2.2021. Theatre Museum’s exhibitions transport visitors into the theatre and backstage to see and experience what performance and theatre are all about.
Helsinki
A military history museum presenting the history of the Salpa Line fortification with both indoor and outdoor exhibitions.
Virolahti
The museum´s collections depict how men, women and children laboured with seines, herring drifts nets and drum nets in olden times.
Eckerö
Living history about mankind and the sea.
Maarianhamina
Fishing and sealing implements and a large collection of utility boats.
Luoto
Ecclesiastical tradition.
Kauhajoki
Finnish and international boxing equipment, photographs and other related objexts.
Tampere
A museum presenting fishing implements.
Kokkola
Forest work from the 1860´s to the1960´s as from the beginning of the sawmill industry up to the mechanization of the forest work.
Parkano
The museum presents aviation history with archives from different periods.
Jämsä
A peasant cottage from 1850 and several other buildings moved here from other places.
Mänttä-Vilppula
The oldest house in downtown Helsinki is dedicated to the youngest in the City, as the Children´s Town was opened in the Sederholm House on November 2012.
Helsinki
Farming implements.
Eura
A complete smithy with equipment.
Salo
Objects used in agriculture and forestry.
Loviisa
Main emphasis on the pilot service and coastal traffic in the archipelago, especially in Jungfrusund and Högsåratrakten.
Kemiönsaari
Local means of livelihood.
Kalajoki
The place where the first youth association in Finland - "Kauhavan Nuorisoyhtiö" - was founded in 1881.
Kauhava
The museum is situated in an old grain store and presents as special items scale models and dolls related to the history of the parish as well as the collection of writer and genealogist Jalmari Finne.
Kangasala
Old farmyard typical of the Häme region.
Humppila
Means of livelihood and housing conditions in Kemijärvi in the mid-nineteenth century.
Kemijärvi
Veikko Salkio´s Natral History Collection, Viljo Nissinen´s Mineral Collection, Armas Järvelä´s Lepidoptera Collection.
Kokkola
A coffee room in the functional style of the 1940´s, a large textile collection, old toys and farming implements.
Vöyri-Maksamaa
The museum displays farming implements in an old granary.
Rauma
Museum has room for decades from 1920-1960 with corresponding and furnishing.
Kouvola
The history of boatbuilding tradition on the Kråkä island; tools connected with boatbuilding and a boat under construction.
Porvoo
One of the largest utility boat museums in Fenno-Scandia.
Maalahti
Turku
Farming and hunting implements.
Kyyjärvi
History of the mother parish of Laukaa since the beginning of the 16th century.
Laukaa
A mill built in 1807 of grey stone, miller´s cottage and exhibition space in a parallel cahmber building dating from the 18th century.
Lieto
The museum, situated in an old parish meeting hall, is specialized in textiles from the region.
Lappeenranta
The museum presents peasant dwellings and artefacts connected with seafaring and seal hunting.
Luvia
The museum presents peasant artefacts, especially sleds and sleighs.
Hämeenlinna
The museum presents traditions, tools and equipment related to different occupations within the building trade.
Kirkkonummi
The history of the Finnish baseball since the days of Tahko Pihkala.
Vimpeli
The museum of the Kauhajoki veterans presenting memories of the war.
Kauhajoki
Kaustinen
The history of the visually impaired including schooling and professional education as well as professions practised by the visually impaired.
Helsinki
Material connected with organ making.
Vöyri-Maksamaa
An open-air exhibition of folk buildings.
Oulu
Four mills built in 1850 standing side by side.
Eura
Rural objects from the beginning of the 20th century.
Parikkala
A genuine shipmasters homestead from the era of peasant navigation.
Lemland
The museum tells of the situation at the front and at home during the Second World War in 1939-1945.
Loviisa
A farmhouse and two storehouses with contents.
Lapinjärvi
Finland's first president K.
Haapajärvi
A museum of local history and culture.
Pyhäjärvi
The Päivälehti Museum presents the history of media, modern-day media and the future of media as well as the freedom of speech in Finland and in other countries.
Helsinki
The museum presents peasant artefacts, household utensils and ecclesiastical objects.
Rusko
The Salpa Line is a massive line of defensive fortifications approximately 1200 km long that was built in 1940 - 41 and in 1944 in order to defend the Eastern border of Finland.
Miehikkälä
Objects displayed in an old schoolhouse derive from the schools in the Sipoo region.
Sipoo
The history of this unique milieu dates back to the 16th century.
Paraisten kaupunki
Tools dating from the end of the 19th century onwards.
Juuka
A worker's cabin in its original condition.
Humppila
The Tervajärvi house with outbildings shows the farmstead in the condition it was in the late1940´s.
Sotkamo
The collection comprises over100 cars, 20 motorcycles and 20 mopeds covering a time span of 80 years.
Espoo
Vaasa
A house museum.
Kolari
Hattula
The museum displays uniforms, insignia, flags and literature related to the scout movement in Finland.
Turku
Presentation of voluntary national defence work and women's voluntary defence organisation (Lotta Svärd).
Säkylä
Two windmills from the 1840´s, a fisherman´s cottage at the harbour of Harrström.
Korsnäs
An open-air museum.
Urjala
The old farmstead of the Paloniemi family, inhabited during 1665-1927.
Pertunmaa
In agricultural museum it is possible to make a trip to history and every day life of the old Helsingin maalaiskunta.
Vantaa
The former Svartmark croft with several outbuildings tannery.
Vesilahti
Collections of the Zoological Museum consist, on the other hand, of scientific collections directed to research and, on the other hand, educational and public collections directed to teaching.
Turku