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.
Mikkeli Centre of Photography is an art centre and museum.
Mikkeli
A visitors centre for science, nature, art and culture – in the middle of the Archipelago Sea UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.
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Experience nature in Kuusamo as never before in Finland's first nature photography centre.
Kuusamo
Finlands fotografiska museum K1 – världen genom fotografiet.Museet är stängd till 31 januari 2021 i enlighet med de coronavirus riktlinjerna i Helsingfors.
Helsinki
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 beautiful home museum of world famous composer Jean Sibelius and his wife Aino Sibelius by the Tuusulanjärvi lake.
Järvenpää
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
Amos Rex is an art museum where the past, present and future meet.Amos Rex is closed from 30 November 30 until 25 December because of the metropolitan area Corona-regulations.
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 Bank of Finland Museum presents the history of money, monetary systems and monetary economy as well as the function of a modern central bank as a member of the European System of Central Banks.
Helsinki
The only museum in Finland in which the permanent exhibition is made up of dioramas only.
Turku
The museum, built in 1772, is the town´s oldest building and used to serve as the garrison guardroom.
Lappeenranta
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
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
Motorcycle Museum has over 100 motorcycles and historical items related to motorcycling. Themes in Museum change every year. This year’s theme is 100 years of Motorcycling in Finland.
Lahti
A presentation of Finnish aviation history from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day.
Jyväskylä
The biggest ice hockey museum in Europe presents the history of ice hockey in Finland and elsewhere.
Tampere
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
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 art center's exhibition program showcases different phenomenons of contemporary and modern art.
Raasepori
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
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
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 world's only museum focusing on Helsinki.
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
Heureka - The joy of discovery and fun experiences for all ages! Please note: HEUREKA IS CLOSED until January 31, 2021 as a COVID-19 precaution!All tickets must be purchased or booked in advance via Heureka’s online ticket shop.
Vantaa
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
Welcome to Finlands oldest home museum of the national poet J.L. Runeberg.
Porvoo
Joensuu Art Museum Onni is situated in the centre of Joensuu, exhibiting its own collections as well as several temporary exhibitions every year.
Joensuu
An art museum fascinated by contemporary art. Local art is close to our heart, but we also exhibit artist from all around Finland as well as abroad.
Jyväskylä
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
Kajaani Art Museum offers annually a distinguished selection of both nationally and internationally interesting contemporary art.
Kajaani
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
Kemi
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
Kotkaniemi, the home museum of President P. E. Svinhufvud and Mrs. Ellen Svinhufvud
Luumäki
One of the most important classic collections of contemporary art in Finland.
Vaasa
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 19th February 2021.
Kuopio
Käsityönmuseo Miila tells the story of the long history of crafts and their meaning in everyday life.
Paimio
The regional art museum of the Päijät-Häme district.
Lahti
The museum has a collection of Finnish visual art from the 1850´s to the present day.
Lappeenranta
Lapua
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
Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden introduces an eclectic and fascinating collection of living plants.
Helsinki
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
Exhibition activities at temporary location of Mikkeli Art Museum have started on 8.6.2019!
Mikkeli
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
Kiasma is a home of contemporary art where everyone is welcome.
Helsinki
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
The history of the oldest glass factory in Finland.
Urjala
The origin of a thousand stories and the site of numerous battles, Olavinlinna Castle is one of the best-known sights in Finland.
Savonlinna
The museum´s function comprise the coastline and northern area of the former Vaasa province.
Vaasa
Oulu Museum of Art (OMA) is set in idyllic surroundings on the edge of Ainola Park about a kilometre from Oulu city centre.
Oulu
The Poikilo Museums comprise the Kouvola Art Museum and City Museum in Kouvola House, Kouta Gallery, Poikilo Gallery and Kino Poikilo.
Kouvola
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
Taivalkoski
In the Crown Granary, you can learn more about Raahe´s history, from prehistory to the present day.
Raahe
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
The history of the town of Riihimäki in an idyllic setting at the Rautatienpuisto park.
Riihimäki
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 factory museum displays products, machines and tools of the Rosenlew company.
Pori
The museum displays the Jenni and Antti Wihuri Foundation's collection of modern Finnish art from the 1940´s until the present day.
Rovaniemi
Saarijärvi Museum is a data bank of Northern Central Finland. The museum has art and cultural history exhibitions throughout the year.
Saarijärvi
The 100-year-old locomotive shed now houses a modern art museum.
Salo
Salo
The collection of paintings, sculptures and prints by Finnish and foreign artists, mainly works from the1960´s and 1970´s.
Tampere
Sastamala
Historical museum about the regions Satakunta ja Pori.
Pori
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
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
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
Classic artworks at the manor and contemporary art in the pavilion.
Mänttä-Vilppula
Top art on display in a brewery owner's home.Closed 1.12.2020–31.1.2021.
Helsinki
Ski Museum – Snow Fun Year-round!Due to the special circumstances concerning Lahti Ski Games 2021, the Ski Museum is not open during its normal hours between Jan. 20 – 24th.The Ski Museum is still open for those who have an entry pass to the Lahti Sports Centre area, Wednesday through Friday 9.00 – 17.00 and Saturday through Sunday 11.00 – 16.00.
Lahti
South Karelia Museum exhibits the history and traditions of Karelia area, on both sides of the eastern boarder.
Lappeenranta
First museum of global espionage in the world.
Tampere
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
Old toys from the beginning of the 19th century to the 1980' in a beautiful building on the Suomenlinna sea fortress island.
Helsinki
Mänttä-Vilppula
Opened as a museum in 1987, Tamminiemi Villa was the official residence of the Presidents Ryti, Mannerheim and Kekkonen and the stage of many political negotiations and resolutions.
Helsinki
Themes from art history and phenomena of contemporary art in both its Finnish and international exhibitions.
Tampere
Temppeliaukio Church is situated in the heart of Helsinki and excavated into solid rock.
Helsinki
History of motoring, motor vehicles and road traffic in Finland.
Kangasala
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 Horology is specialised in timepieces and the history of measuring time.
Espoo
The Finnish Museum of Photography presents exhibitions of Finnish and international photography by established and emerging talents, as well as the diverse history of the craft. The museum closed until 31st of January 2021 due to the coronavirus situation in accordance with the guidelines of the city of Helsinki.
Helsinki
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
Lönnström Art Museum will in the future execute art projects in close collaboration with visual artists.
Rauma
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
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
Finland’s largest prison museum The Prison examines the history of prison management and prison life by evoking emotions and breaking preconceived notions.
Hämeenlinna
Sami people’s of history, culture and mythology over thousands of years.
Kittilä
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
The Tobacco museum displays the local tobacco industry between 1762-1998.
Pietarsaari
Large spaces for both art- and cultural-historical exhibitions.
Pietarsaari
A cultural meeting place in Tapiola. Closed from 1st December 2020 to 31 January 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 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
Artsi takes care, maintains & accumulates the art collection owned by the city of Vantaa.
Vantaa
The museum is located in the oldest existing railway station in Finland (1862).
Vantaa
Varkaus museums - Varkaus city museum and art museum
Varkaus
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
National museum for peacekeeping and crisis management, which also fosters the legacy of the tradition of veterans and voluntary national defence.
Hamina
Works by sculptor Yrjö Liipola (1881-1971).
Koski Tl
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
Living history about mankind and the sea.
Maarianhamina
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
Kuopio
Säkylä
Laihia
Turku
The studio of artist Albert Edelfelt (1854-1905).
Porvoo
Ecclesiastical tradition.
Kauhajoki
The history of Helsinki Deaconess Institute, from a small epidemic hospital (1867) into a social enterprise group.
Helsinki
A collection of clothes and equipments used in football, cups and other memorabilia.
Valkeakoski
Jyväskylä
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
Trams have been clattering around the streets of Helsinki for more than one hundred years.
Helsinki
The history of the hospital and nursing since the beginning of the 20th century.
Raasepori
The history of nursing and hospitals in Central Finland.
Jyväskylä
The museum shows equipment of a sanatorium and the development of a sanatorium into a special-service hospital.
Kauhava
Imatra Town Museum was founded in 1974.
Imatra
Objects used in agriculture and forestry.
Loviisa
Narrow-gauge museum steam trains run on Sundays from June to August.
Jokioinen
Tuusula
Finnish and foreign contemporary art.
Kerava
Veikko Salkio´s Natral History Collection, Viljo Nissinen´s Mineral Collection, Armas Järvelä´s Butterfly Collection.
Kokkola
Phases of the Koskenkorva plant of Altia, history of the products of the factory and description of Finnish drinking habits.
Ilmajoki
The history of boatbuilding tradition on the Kråkä island; tools connected with boatbuilding and a boat under construction.
Porvoo
The birthplace and childhood home of writer Sakari Topelius (1818-1898).
Uusikaarlepyy
Kaarina
The Lapua Cartridge Factory Museum is located in the original factory building and exhibits the factory´s everyday work, versatile history and unique national cartridge production.
Lapua
Exhibition of the Fortress, Prehistorical exhibition, school museum, ethnological exhibition and a church museum.
Luumäki
The history of the Finnish baseball since the days of Tahko Pihkala.
Vimpeli
Museum describes the history of Harjamäki mental hospital, which operated 1926-1997 in the Harjamäki area.
Siilinjärvi
Kaustinen
The history of the visually impaired including schooling and professional education as well as professions practised by the visually impaired.
Helsinki
Objects related to traditional means of livelihood.
Nilsiä
Mynämäki
Cars, motorcycles and motors.
Oulu
Finland´s only police museum is open to everyone!The Police Museum is located in the Tampere suburb of Hervanta.
Tampere
Peasant artefacts and furniture on display in a former school building.
Pomarkku
The museum portrays the history of both national and local photography.
Lapua
The home and farmyard of a small farmer from North Savo from the late 19th century.
Siilinjärvi
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
Salo Historical Museum SAMU stores and displays material related to the City of Salo´s cultural and industrial heritage.
Salo
Objects displayed in an old schoolhouse derive from the schools in the Sipoo region.
Sipoo
Rauma
Traditional farming implements.
Siikainen
Tools dating from the end of the 19th century onwards.
Juuka
History of bicycles and biking presented with respective accessories.
Teuva
The first continuously run board machine in Finland, which was set started up in 1897 and cut off in 1978.
Kouvola
The collection comprises over100 cars, 20 motorcycles and 20 mopeds covering a time span of 80 years.
Espoo
Vaasa
The history of the jaeger movement in Finland.
Kauhava
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
Herbarium collections on arctic, subarctic and boreal plant species mainly from the Fennoscandia region.
Oulu
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
In agricultural museum it is possible to make a trip to history and every day life of the old Helsingin maalaiskunta.
Vantaa
Finnish art collected by Yrjö A.
Porvoo
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
About fifteen old fire engines and fire-fighting articles.
Hammarland