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.
Finlands fotografiska museum K1 – världen genom fotografiet.
Helsinki
Haihatus Art Center and Residency is an inspiring, relaxed, and international art centre and residence in Joutsa, Finland, that hosts different kinds of cultural events.
Joutsa
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
Alpo Jaakola Statuary Park is the result of decades of creative work. In the course of decades the curious sculptures have transformed the park into a magical forest.
Loimaa
To visit the Alvar Aalto Museum is not only to immerse yourself in the world famous architect's work, design and personal history but an architectonic experience of space and building as well.
Jyväskylä
Amos Rex is an art museum where the past, present and future meet.
Helsinki
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
Art and Museum Centre Sinkka is home to Kerava Museum and Kerava Art Museum.
Kerava
The collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Eemil are based on sculptures and plaster and clay drafts of works by the renowned Finnish sculptor Eemil Halonen (1875–1950).
Lapinlahti
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 only museum in Finland in which the permanent exhibition is made up of dioramas only.
Turku
Birthplace of the famous Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.
Hämeenlinna
The museum for voluntary national defense operates in a building designed by Alvar Aalto for the South Ostrobothnian Defence Corps and Lotta Svärd organisations.
Seinäjoki
The Headquarters telephone and teleprinter trafficwas transmitted through the Communications Centre Lokki, which operatedfrom the underground caverns of Naisvuori during the Second World War.
Mikkeli
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 museum displays the products of Arabia and Iittala from 1873 to the present day.
Helsinki
Design Museum Iittala presents the history of the Iittala glass factory.
Hämeenlinna
EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art is one of the most important art museums in Finland.
Espoo
Charming wooden house of the poet J. H. Erkko by the beautiful Tuusula Lake.
Tuusula
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
In the brand new Music Museum Fame you can find truly unique music experiences and be introduced to Finnish music from many decades.
Helsinki
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 ship s/s Bore. Built 1960.
Turku
The art center's exhibition program showcases different phenomenons of contemporary and modern art.
Raasepori
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.Located in the middle of modern-day Espoo, Glims still offers its visitors a glimpse of the countryside
Espoo
House of Golden Story: colorful gold history of Lapland and international gold prospecting tradition under the same roof.
Sodankylä
The charming Hakasalmi Villa is located next to Finlandia Hall near Töölönlahti bay.
Helsinki
Art is popcorn for the brain! HAM Helsinki Art Museum looks after the art collection that belongs to the people of Helsinki.
Helsinki
The museum’s permanent exhibition Hanko in Foreign Hands has been completely renewed.
Hanko
A small, but homey museum at the south point of Finland.
Hanko
During the Winter War and Continuation Wars, 1939-40 and 1941-44, the headquarters of the Finnish Army were located in Mikkeli.
Mikkeli
The Helinä Rautavaara Museum has moved to Espoon keskus. Warmly welcome!
Espoo
The astronomy visitor centre of the Helsinki University Museum. Welcome to the journey through light years!
Helsinki
The University of Helsinki is the oldest university in Finland and the country's cultural and scientific cradle. The exhibitions and collections of the University Museum tell the fascinating story of the University, from the founding of the Royal Academy of Turku in the year 1640 up to the present day.
Helsinki
Permanent exhibition on Carl Olof Cronstedt, the builder of Herttoniemi Manor, the home of an upper-class family from the beginning of the 20th century.
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
Birth home of Finland's national writer Aleksis Kivi.
Nurmijärvi
The Hotel and Restaurant Museum is a museum specialised in the history of hotels, restaurants, cafés, tourism and Finnish food culture.
Helsinki
Museum organizes changing exhibitions of Finnish and international contemporary art and art history.
Hyvinkää
Hämeenlinna Art Museum is a diverse museum of visual arts near the centre of Hämeenlinna.
Hämeenlinna
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
Joensuu Art Museum Onni is situated in the centre of Joensuu, exhibiting its own collections as well as several temporary exhibitions every year.
Joensuu
Writer and parsonage museum in historical Koljonvirta
Iisalmi
The Järvenpää Art Museum collection consists of works by Eero Järnefelt and Venny Soldan-Brofeld, who were close neighbours and membes of the early 1900’s artists’ community at Lake Tuusula.
Järvenpää
Local means of livelihood like hunting, fishing and tar trade.
Kajaani
Kajaani Art Museum offers annually a distinguished selection of both nationally and internationally interesting contemporary art.
Kajaani
History of Kankaanpää, Kauko and Sinikka Räike art collection and army history in an old school building.
Kankaanpää
The museum is situated in the former main office of the foundry.
Karkkila
From the beginning, Kemi Art Museum has enabled visitors to explore northern Finnish art and it has raised public awareness around northern art in an important way.
Kemi
The Kierikki centre and Stone Age Village present Finnish prehistory and way of life 6000 years ago.
Oulu
What’s on display at Kangasala Arts Centre: a permanent exhibition with works by the famous Finnish sculptor Kimmo Pyykkö, as well as temporary exhibitions.
Kangasala
Contemporary Art & Design since 1928.
Helsinki
The collections include mainly Finnish art from the end of the 19th century to the present.
Kuopio
Kuopio Museum is closed for renovations. We will be open 15th April 2021.
Kuopio
Kurikka museum has a variety of exhibitions that present the history of Kurikka and its culture.
Kurikka
The museum has a collection of Finnish visual art from the 1850´s to the present day.
Lappeenranta
Loimaa Art House aims to be much more than just a presentation of town-owned collections: it tells of local tradition and education, and gives a holistic view of the home town depicted in its local visual arts.
Loimaa
The Lotta-Svärd organization was the largest women's voluntary national defence organization in the world.
Tuusula
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
Milavida presents the glamorous and international lifestyle of the Nottbeck family, the owners of the famous Finlayson cotton mill. Museum at the beautiful Näsilinna manor house exhibits often also fashion and design in the theme of the factory.
Tampere
Kiasma is a home of contemporary art where everyone is welcome.
Helsinki
Museum of Finnish Architecture brings buildings' tales to life. The museum is located in a neo-renaissance building in Helsinki Design District.
Helsinki
A museum area where a total of 18 old peasant buildings built between the 17th and 19th centuries have been moved to from all over the province.
Seinäjoki
Museum-Gallery Alariesto is located in the heart of Sodankylä, close to Old Church and Reindeer statue.
Sodankylä
Möhkö ironworks was in operation during the period of 1838-1907.
Ilomantsi
The permanent exhibition includes a bourgeois residence and a craftsman´s town home from the late 19th century.
Naantali
The Art Nouveau building completed for use as the National Museum of Finland in 1910 is a treasure as a whole. The modernised permanent exhibitions, evocative changing exhibitions and diverse events guarantee that the National Museum is always offering something new and different.
Helsinki
The Koli Nature Centre Ukko offers Finland's best known national landscape, the hills of Eastern Finland and heritage sites.
Lieksa
The Art Museum of Southern Ostrobothnia, Nelimarkka Museum, is situated in Alajärvi and operates in the area of 16 municipalities.
Alajärvi
The North Karelian Museum is located in the centre of Joensuu, in the Carelicum building.
Joensuu
Open air museum about the life of early 20th century tenant farmers in eastern Finland.
Nurmes
The history of the oldest glass factory in Finland.
Urjala
Discover life in 19th century in eleven old wooden houses and visit famous writer Minna Canth's room.
Kuopio
Finnish mining industry from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day.
Outokumpu
Paikkari Cottage is the birthplace and childhood home of Elias Lönnrot, who compiled the Finnish national epic Kalevala.
Lohja
The museum is located by the Nordkalk limestone quarry.
Paraisten kaupunki
A beautiful museum area in the center of Pargas.
Paraisten kaupunki
At Parppeinvaara you'll find a collection of historic buildings based on the theme of local tradition.
Ilomantsi
Second biggest outdoor museum in Finland with around 70 buildings.
Lieksa
A bold and experimental museum of contemporary art.
Pori
The Messengers is an exhibition that takes visitors through the history, recent past and future of postal and communication services in Finland.
Tampere
The exhibitions of the Radio and TV Museum Mastola feature radio and television history from the olden days. The museum's interactive exhibits invite you to take part.
Lahti
Archaeological exhibitions.
Raisio
Lovely old milieu telling the history of Raasepori and about the life and art of Helene Schjerfbeck who lived in the town.
Raasepori
The Rauma Art Museum is home to changing contemporary art exhibitions and the art collections of the City of Rauma.
Rauma
Marela shows the life and lifestyle of a wealthy shipowner and his family at the turn of the 1900s, the golden age of seafaring in Rauma.
Rauma
In the Old Town Hall (built in 1776) one can visit changing exhibitions, see Rauma lace, and buy souvenirs from the museum shop Kistupuad.
Rauma
Riihimäki Art Museum is a warm and delightful meeting place in the centre of town.
Riihimäki
RIISA is a museum with a soul.
Kuopio
The museum displays the Jenni and Antti Wihuri Foundation's collection of modern Finnish art from the 1940´s until the present day.
Rovaniemi
The museum forms an estate that holds all its buildings related to local peasant farming from the turn of the 19th and 20th century.
Rovaniemi
Saarijärvi Museum is a data bank of Northern Central Finland. The museum has art and cultural history exhibitions throughout the year.
Saarijärvi
Typical early 19th century upper-class home life and an exhibition of the life of the national poet of Finland J. L. Runeberg.
Saarijärvi
The 100-year-old locomotive shed now houses a modern art museum.
Salo
Sámi Museum and Nature Centre Siida is your guide to Sámi culture and northern nature.
Inari
The collection of paintings, sculptures and prints by Finnish and foreign artists, mainly works from the1960´s and 1970´s.
Tampere
Exhibition presenting the Wetlands of Satakunta.
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
See the forest like you've never seen it before - at the Science Centre Pilke
Rovaniemi
Contemporary art, events and experiences at Kunsthalle Seinäjoki.
Seinäjoki
Dramatised history and art in the former head office of the Serlachius paper company.
Mänttä-Vilppula
Ski Museum – Snow Fun Year-round!
Lahti
Pukstaavi, The Museum of Finnish Book offers knowledge and experiences to all who are interested in books and reading, regardless of age.
Sastamala
The main museum of Suomenlinna fortress Suomenlinna Museum is open all year round.
Helsinki
The City of Mikkeli's museum of cultural history, known as the Suur-Savo Museum, records and exhibits the history of Mikkeli and its region.
Mikkeli
Taipale canal park area there are the Canal museum with a cafe, over 170 year old stone canal and the working Taipale canal with active waterbourne traffic.
Varkaus
Themes from art history and phenomena of contemporary art in both its Finnish and international exhibitions.
Tampere
Home to seven museums and changing exhibitions, Museum Center Vapriikki offers things to do and see for the whole family.
Tampere
History of motoring, motor vehicles and road traffic in Finland.
Kangasala
The museum is a specialized museum for craft covering entire Finland.
Jyväskylä
The museum focuses on the the history of glass.
Riihimäki
The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas is the biggest museum in Finland which have free admission.
Tampere
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
The studio home in National Romantic style of painter Pekka Halonen (1865-1933) by the Tuusulanjärvi Lake.
Tuusula
The Itä-Häme Museum, housed in the former Koskipää mansion, covers seven parishes.
Hartola
The collections of objects, photographs, art and textiles relate the maritime history and trading traditions of the town.
Pietarsaari
The home of Marshal of Finland, Baron G.
Helsinki
The Maritime Museum of Finland is a national maritime museum, located in the Maritime Centre Vellamo in Kotka.
Kotka
The Museum of Tornio Valley showcases Tornio Valley culture and history on both sides of the Finnish-Swedish border.
Tornio
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
Finland’s largest prison museum The Prison examines the history of prison management and prison life by evoking emotions and breaking preconceived notions.
Hämeenlinna
The museum focuses on the natural habitat and cultural heritage of Lapland.
Rovaniemi
Sami people’s of history, culture and mythology over thousands of years.
Kittilä
The permanent exhibition "Environment as a heritage" displays the diversity of nature in Central Finland.
Jyväskylä
The Sibelius Museum is the most versatile music museum in Finland.
Turku
Sport is the most inclusive phenomenon in Finnish society. Get to know the stories of Finnish sports at the Olympic stadium!
Helsinki
Museum is closed due to renovation and will be opened again in May 2021.
Kemiönsaari
Large spaces for both art- and cultural-historical exhibitions.
Pietarsaari
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
The museum is the previous home of Mr.
Vaasa
The changing exhibitions inside of the granite caste walls of Turku Art Museum provide a fascinating panorama of art from iconic pieces to the very latest contemporary artworks.
Turku
The art gallery shows temporary exhibitions of contemporary art.
Vaasa
Liedon Vanhalinnas historic hill fortification is a popular cultural destination by the beautiful Aurajoki river valley.
Lieto
The museum is located in the oldest existing railway station in Finland (1862).
Vantaa
The Villa Gyllenberg museum, which is comprised of the Gyllenberg family home and an adjoining gallery, is located in the beautiful and natural surroundings of Helsinki’s Kuusisaari area.
Helsinki
A military history museum presenting the history of the Salpa Line fortification with both indoor and outdoor exhibitions.
Virolahti
The life and works of sculptor Emil Wikström (1864-1942), in his studio home (1902-13) with authentic interior.
Valkeakoski
Please NOTE. Closed due to the corona epidemic and roof repair 3.12.2020–5.3.2021. WAM is an art museum of the City of Turku, whose varying exhibitions present contemporary art phenomena locally as well as internationally.
Turku
Art from the Åland Islands from sculptures and paintings to modern video installations.
Maarianhamina
The museum´s collections depict how men, women and children laboured with seines, herring drifts nets and drum nets in olden times.
Eckerö
Åland’s story, from the first seal-hunters, who set foot on these rocky islands, to today’s global and multi-cultural society.
Maarianhamina
Get to know both an interesting culture person Toivo Parantainen and his art collection and beautiful landscape depictions from Central Finland in Äänekoski Art Museum!
Äänekoski
Joensuu Bunker Museum is a part of the Sapla Defence Line built during World War II.
Joensuu
Findings from the Bomarsund´s fortress.
Sund
The museum includes an old garden which is presented in an exhibition.
Maalahti
Carpenter at the museum hosts changing exhibitions of the summer, with the theme of the traditional joinery different areas.
Kurikka
The history of the Customs Services until the activities of the present day.
Helsinki
An overall view of life in the coastal region, when the principal sources of livelihood were fishing, seal hunting, farming and handicraft.
Mustasaari
Heikkilä Local History Museum is open in the summer.
Kerava
Coffee cups donated by manufacturers all over the world.
Posio
In the Museum Quarter there are three museum buildings, the Pedagogy a.
Kokkola
Permanent exhibition of the objects from the early 20th century belonging to the Karhulahti farmhouse.
Joroinen
Numismatic and photographic collections, wooden dishes, old textiles and instruments of natural healers in indoor and outdoor exhibitions.
Karvia
The workers' housing conditions in the 1910´s and 1930´s.
Kemi
Shoe and leather tradition displayed in permanent and theme-related exhibitions.
Juupajoki
Museum has room for decades from 1920-1960 with corresponding and furnishing.
Kouvola
One of the largest utility boat museums in Fenno-Scandia.
Maalahti
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
Exhibition of the Fortress, Prehistorical exhibition, school museum, ethnological exhibition and a church museum.
Luumäki
The museum presents local history and the means of livelihood in the Halikko region.
Salo
The museum is a specialized museum of military history presenting wartime medical care from front-line conditions to military hospitals.
Lahti
Some 7000 geological specimens: minerals, rock types and ores.
Espoo
An open-air exhibition of folk buildings.
Oulu
The influential Lutheran revivalist Paavo Ruotsalainen lived in Aholansaari in 1817-20 and again in 1830-52.
Nilsiä
Exhibitions on the prehistory of the valley of Perniö River; interiors of a farmhouse and a manor-house, collections of weapons, glassware, pewter, copper, textiles and pipes.
Salo
Finland´s only police museum is open to everyone!The Police Museum is located in the Tampere suburb of Hervanta.
Tampere
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 home and farmyard of a small farmer from North Savo from the late 19th century.
Siilinjärvi
Life in the outer islands presented in a traditional farmhouse.
Mustasaari
Rupriikki Media museum´s permanent exhibition presents the history of mass communications, a journey into the world of the telephone, radio, television, the press and the computer, with the aid of examples from Tampere.
Tampere
The basic exhibition concentrates on seine fishing and related equipment, the history of the rural community in general displayed in the main building of the old farmhouse.
Naantali
Th museum is located in a former cashier´s residence on the eastern side of the old Mälkiä lock.
Lappeenranta
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
The Sovelius house, built in the 1780´s, houses a wealthy middle-class home of a shipowner-merchant family from 1890´s.
Raahe
Local artefacts in Siuntio's first elementary school.
Siuntio
A permanent exhibition of local artefacts in two loan grain storehouses.
Somero
The museum relates the industrial traditions of Strömfors, nail and rod steel forge, interior of the iron works´office.
Loviisa
The lighthouse is built in 1906 and is the tallest lighthouse building in the Nordic countries.
Kemiönsaari
Roos house (built in 1813) houses among other things, the K.
Kokkola
The history of Kaskinen, e.
Kaskinen
The museum is housed in the stone barn built by Gabriel Aspegren in the 1770´s.
Pedersören kunta
Artefacts of the Ragvalds farmstead from the 19th century to the 1950s, a nature track.
Kirkkonummi
Situated in Asikkala municipality, Vääksy village at Päijännetalo building by the busy canal.
Asikkala
The museum presents the working-class movement of the town and former province of Vaasa, partly in a permanent exhibition, partly in changing thematic exhibitions.
Vaasa
The art centre promotes the art education of children and young people in Finland and its activities include art, art education and research.
Hyvinkää
The exhibition illustrates the life of warders in the 20th century and shows the prison itself with five cells; other prison environments from the19th century until the 1950´are also presented.
Sund
The home of a carpenter and a cobbler's workshop from the 1920s-30s.
Tuusula
Basic exhibitions on basketmaking and manufacturing of knives.
Kauhava