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The Museum Card allows you to visit fascinating exhibitions. Please note, that the museums are updating their sites at museot.fi, and some of the information can only be found in Finnish.
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Ars Fennica 2025
The group exhibition showcasing the works of the nominees for Finland’s most significant visual arts prize is now on view at HAM.
HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki
24.10.2025 – 29.3.2026
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Magdalena Abakanowicz: Crossing Boundaries
HAM presents the works of Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930–2017), one of Poland’s most renowned artists, more extensively than ever before...
HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki
6.5.2026 – 30.8.2026
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Petri Ala-Maunus and Mauno Markkula: Blazing Sky
The opening exhibition of HAM’s new collection space brings together two painters from different eras, united by their emotional...
HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki
13.3.2026 – 31.1.2027
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Suvannossa
Finnish Museum of Natural History, Natural History Museum, Helsinki
24.2.2026 – 12.4.2026
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The Main Exhibition
Welcome to experience something new from 12 June 2026.
Helsinki City Museum, Helsinki
12.6.2026 – 31.12.2030
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Aalto Design – Shapes of Wellbeing
The exhibition invites visitors to explore Alvar, Aino and Elissa Aalto’s architecture and design from the perspective of wellbeing.
Architecture and Design Museum Helsinki, Helsinki
5.6.2026 – 3.1.2027
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Juha Vehmaanperä: Craft Punk
The first large-scale solo exhibition by knitting artist Juha Vehmaanperä, Craft Punk, opens at the Gallery of the Architecture & Design...
Architecture and Design Museum Helsinki, Helsinki
20.2.2026 – 6.9.2026
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Käsityönä tehdyn Lasin lumo
Suomenlinna Museum, Helsinki
6.3.2026 – 10.1.2027
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ATLASES OF THE MARINER - Historical sea charts of the Baltic Sea
The exhibition introduces the basics of marine charting and the history of mapping the Baltic Sea and four sea atlases from the 17th to the...
Ehrensvärd Museum, Helsinki
2.4.2026 – 30.9.2026
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Artist Family Jansson
The Tove Jansson Gallery at HAM opens on a larger scale than ever before, now spreading across three exhibition halls. The first exhibition...
HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki
13.2.2026 – 10.1.2027
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FLORAhomage
LUOMUS Kaisaniemi botanic garden, Helsinki
3.2.2026 – 5.4.2026
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The Unknown Suburb
The Unknown Suburb exhibition begins at a bus stop, and the story travels from two-billion-year-old bedrock to a suburban apartment block...
Helsinki City Museum, Helsinki
17.4.2026 – 13.9.2026
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Arvo Siikamäki – Longing for Freedom
Arvo Siikamäki’s exhibition features sculptures from the 1960s to the present day
Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki
7.2.2026 – 17.5.2026
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Barley Porridge and Crispbread – The Story of Finnish School Meals
Oat Porridge and Crispbread – The Story of Finnish School Meals explores the history of Finnish school meals and their role in everyday...
Hotel and Restaurant Museum, Helsinki
18.9.2026 – 29.8.2027
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Eero Nelimarkka
An exhibition covering the entire career of Eero Nelimarkka (1891–1977) takes a fresh look at the versatile artist and sheds light on his...
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki
13.3.2026 – 13.9.2026
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The Peacock in the Garden – Mathias Withoos and Rome
Friendship, inspiration, and the joys of togetherness! That was Dutch painter Mathias Withoos’ (1627–1703) experience of joining the...
Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helsinki
24.9.2026 – 10.1.2027
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Anna Sinebrychoff – Ahead of Her Time
Anna Sinebrychoff (1830–1904) was an exceptional woman who ran one of Finland’s most successful businesses, the Sinebrychoff Brewery,...
Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helsinki
3.3.2026 – 29.8.2027
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Night
Night is more mysterious than day. Most of us sleep through these mystical hours; by day, people work and the cogs of society whirr....
Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helsinki
12.2.2026 – 23.8.2026
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Vinayak: Babirusa vol. II – Terminal Diasporic
The exhibition is a poetic experiment in constructing an imagined non-place. It brings to life archives gathered from the urban peripheries...
The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
16.1.2026 – 22.3.2026
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Modern classics: Elga Sesemann
The Modern Classics series of exhibitions presents 20th-century artists from the Finnish National Gallery collections. The first artist to...
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki
18.8.2026 – 8.8.2027
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Paul and Fanny Sinebrychoff House Museum
The heart of the Sinebrychoff Art Museum is Paul and Fanny Sinebrychoff´s House Museum.
Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helsinki
17.2.2026 – 31.12.2030
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Radikaalit! Oikeus ääneen
Merkki, Helsinki
23.1.2026 – 19.4.2026
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Pehmokarnevaali
Merkki, Helsinki
8.1.2026 – 1.3.2026
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Oliver Beer – Resonance Project: The Cave
Resonance Project: The Cave is an immersive 8-screen and 16-channel video opera by British artist Oliver Beer. Premiered to critical...
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
6.11.2026 – 28.3.2027
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Emma Ainala
Emma Ainala’s large-scale, dreamlike oil paintings delve into themes around femininity, girlhood, the gaze, and the experience of being...
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
9.10.2026 – 14.2.2027
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Elin Danielson-Gambogi
The exhibition delves into the bold and multifaceted world of the beloved artist Elin Danielson-Gambogi (1861–1919).
Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki
12.9.2026 – 31.1.2027
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William Morris
Welcome to the sources of William Morris’s inspiration: dreamlike gardens, the realms of history and legendary tales
Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki
29.5.2026 – 30.8.2026
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Marguerite Humeau: Torches
The ambitious exhibition by Marguerite Humeau unfolds as an imaginative landscape of installations in the large open space of HAM’s grand...
HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki
21.11.2025 – 15.3.2026
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Angeloscope
The exhibition sheds light on people’s conceptions of angels through Hanne Kiiveri's photographic art and multidisciplinary research.
Helsinki University Museum Flame, Helsinki
4.12.2025 – 29.8.2026
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Lähiluonnon kätköissä
Finnish Museum of Natural History, Natural History Museum, Helsinki
16.12.2025 – 22.2.2026
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Community Curated Exhibition: Wireless – For the Love of Radio
The exhibition presents radios as technological innovations, as design objects, and as something that brought people together and opened...
Museum of Technology, Helsinki
10.12.2025 – 1.3.2026
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Poetic reality – 1920–40s art, design, fashion and gardens
An exhibition on the romantic and cheerful art, fashion, design and gardens of the 1920–1940s.
Villa Gyllenberg, Helsinki
22.4.2026 – 13.9.2026
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JUMPPATYTÖT – rakkauskirje joukkuevoimistelulle
TAHTO Center for Finnish Sports Culture, Helsinki
10.4.2026 – 13.9.2026
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Arcana Borealis - pohjoisen naiset ja esoteerisuus
The exhibition Arcana Borealis – Northern Women and Esotericism shows how Northern women artists have, since the late 19th century,...
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki
23.10.2026 – 28.2.2027
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Spartak Khachanov: The Impersonal
In the The Impersonal project, Spartak Khachanov highlights everyday life and food culture in reception centers, as well as the experiences...
Hotel and Restaurant Museum, Helsinki
5.6.2026 – 16.8.2026
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A Dream in Four Colours – Kiasma's Collection Exhibition
Step into a space where reality and imagination meet.
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
27.2.2026 – 10.1.2027
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We Who Remain – Sámi Art in Focus
Organised jointly by Kiasma and the Sámi Museum Siida, this exhibition presents contemporary art by and about the Sámi community across...
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
27.3.2026 – 6.9.2026
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Edith Karlson
Edith Karlson is an Estonian sculptor whose darkly evocative installations are inhabited by figures that blur the line between human and...
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
17.4.2026 – 27.9.2026
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Young Artists 2026
This is what a new generation of art looks like!
Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki
29.5.2026 – 26.7.2026
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Our Land, for All
The 20th anniversary exhibition of the Association of Finnish Fine Arts Foundations
Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki
20.3.2026 – 17.5.2026
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Antti Oikarinen: Introspective
What is artistic practice – how does an artwork come into being?
Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki
23.1.2026 – 8.3.2026
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Käsivarren lumo
Finnish Museum of Natural History, Natural History Museum, Helsinki
12.11.2025 – 15.3.2026
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Forest Home
Exhibition invites visitors to discover natural forests through photography, video installations, and scientific specimens.
Finnish Museum of Natural History, Natural History Museum, Helsinki
5.6.2025 – 5.4.2026
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Stefan Bremer – Helsinki by Night
Helsinki by Night presents photographer Stefan Bremer's personal take on Helsinki's nightlife in the 1970s and 80s.
Hakasalmi Villa, Helsinki
24.10.2025 – 30.8.2026
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Jari Litmanen
How did a young boy from Lahti become the king of European football fields?
TAHTO Center for Finnish Sports Culture, Helsinki
23.5.2025 – 8.3.2026
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Leandro Erlich
In the autumn of 2025, Amox Rex will feature the large-scale, participatory installations of artist Leandro Erlich.
Amos Rex, Helsinki
8.10.2025 – 6.4.2026
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Escape to Moominvalley
The Architecture & Design Museum’s new main exhibition Escape to Moominvalley opens on 10 October 2025, highlighting the global...
Architecture and Design Museum Helsinki, Helsinki
10.10.2025 – 27.9.2026
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Diary of a Food Courier
The exhibition at the Hotel and Restaurant Museum looks at the work of couriers from their own perspective.
Hotel and Restaurant Museum, Helsinki
7.10.2025 – 17.5.2026
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Invisible Race
The exhibition Invisible Race exposes how photography and visual culture have reinforced racist structures – and how they can be...
The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
19.9.2025 – 8.3.2026
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Amaze! Tales and Magic of Circus
In the Amaze! exhibtion, you’ll explore the evolution of Finnish circus, learn about traditional and contemporary circus, and meet the...
Theatre Museum, Helsinki
10.10.2025 – 10.1.2027
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Tarinoita tiloista – Lastentarha- ja päiväkotimuistojen keruu
Kindergarten Museum, Helsinki
14.8.2025 – 27.2.2026
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Essi Kuokkanen: Holding a Cloud
In her paintings and drawings, Essi Kuokkanen reflects on what it means to be human—and how we coexist with other life on Earth.
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
10.10.2025 – 22.2.2026
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Sarah Lucas: NAKED EYE
One of Britain’s foremost contemporary artists makes her long-awaited Nordic debut at Kiasma.
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
10.10.2025 – 8.3.2026
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Spirit of the Times. Collection Ane Gyllenberg
The exhibition Spirit of the Times examines Villa Gyllenberg’s art collection and décor within the context of the ideals of the time and...
Villa Gyllenberg, Helsinki
15.10.2025 – 15.3.2026
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Victory will be ours
The mini exhibition Victory will be ours presents Soviet war propaganda posters from the Second World War.
Military Museum´s Manege, Helsinki
1.6.2025 –
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Restaurant photographs from the 1960s and 1970s
Hotel and Restaurant Museum's photographic exhibition takes a look at the turbulent decades of the 1960s and 1970s from the perspective of...
Hotel and Restaurant Museum, Helsinki
19.9.2025 – 30.8.2026
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Between two homes
A mini exhibition about finnish war children in the Military Museum at Suomenlinna.
Military Museum´s Manege, Helsinki
29.3.2025 –
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TAHTO Sports Adventure
A new interactive physical experience for our visitors, especially for children and families.
TAHTO Center for Finnish Sports Culture, Helsinki
29.11.2024 –
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The Finnish Museum of the Deaf
The Museum of the Deaf tells the history of the sign language community in Finland.
The Finnish Museum of the Deaf, Helsinki
22.10.2024 – 31.12.2030
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Altered by War
The exhibition Altered by War presents wartime Information Company drawings, trench art and other artworks from the the Military Museum´s...
Military Museum´s Manege, Helsinki
8.5.2024 –
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Finland at war 1918-1945
The exhibition in the Military Museum´s Manege tells about the wars Finland has fought during its independence: the Civil War in 1918, the...
Military Museum´s Manege, Helsinki
9.5.2018 –
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It's Showtime
It’s Showtime is an exhibition of performing arts and the making of a performance. It’s Showtime is a journey where miracles happen!
Theatre Museum, Helsinki
3.11.2023 –
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Passion for knowledge
Welcome to our core exhibition in the main building of the University of Helsinki!
Helsinki University Museum Flame, Helsinki
10.10.2023 –
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Collection exhibition A Question of Time
A Question of Time reflects on the major questions of our time through art. The exhibition also offers fresh perspectives into Finland’s...
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki
14.4.2023 –
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Viewfinder
Viewfinder is an exhibition about photographs, photographers, and the people who enjoy and make use of photographs.
The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
27.1.2023 –
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Muutosta ilmassa
Finnish Museum of Natural History, Natural History Museum, Helsinki
30.5.2022 –
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Apua ilmastonmuutos!
The Observatory of the Helsinki University Museum, Helsinki
27.5.2022 –
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Taste Matters - Perpectives on food and drink culture
The exhibition takes you to places where food and drink culture is formed and modified. We all have our own personal perspective on food...
Hotel and Restaurant Museum, Helsinki
8.10.2021 – 31.12.2027
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Military life in Finland and elsewhere
In the exhibition Military life in Finland and elsewhere, you get to see what it is like to be a soldier, both during wartime and...
Military Museum´s Manege, Helsinki
8.5.2024 –
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Sigurd Frosterus collection
The art collection of Sigurd Frosterus (1876–1956) can be viewed as a declaration of love for the Colourism that emerged in Europe in the...
Amos Rex, Helsinki
21.9.2022 –
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Change in The Air 360° Virtual Exhibiton
Finnish Museum of Natural History, Natural History Museum, Helsinki
15.2.2021 –
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In the Quarters of Kruununhaka
The photographic exhibition In the Quarters of Kruununhaka consists of 29 photographs on electrical cabinets in Kruununhaka.
Helsinki City Museum, Helsinki
18.9.2020 – 31.12.2030
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Filtering Hall
The Finnish Museum of Technology operates in the buildings of the old Water Purification Plant of Helsinki. The restored Filtering Hall is...
Museum of Technology, Helsinki
1.1.2006 – 31.12.2030
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Suomenlinna-museon pysyvä näyttely
Suomenlinna Museum, Helsinki
1.1.2019 –
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Kansanlastentarha - Helsinginkatu 3-5
Kindergarten Museum, Helsinki
1.9.2009 – 31.12.2030
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History of Life
Take a trip through time, into the past and the beginning of evolution.
Finnish Museum of Natural History, Natural History Museum, Helsinki
30.5.2022 – 31.12.2030
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Finnish Nature
Experience the Finnish landscapes from south to north during different seasons.
Finnish Museum of Natural History, Natural History Museum, Helsinki
1.6.2008 – 31.12.2030
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Story of the Bones
This exhibition teaches you the bare bones of vertebrates.
Finnish Museum of Natural History, Natural History Museum, Helsinki
1.6.2008 – 1.12.2030
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Arkadia Theatre
At the Arkadia Theatre you can hop into the shoes of an actor, a director, or a costume/light/sound designer.
Theatre Museum, Helsinki
3.11.2021 –
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The Universe and I
Dive into the world of astronomy and the history of the Observatory building!
The Observatory of the Helsinki University Museum, Helsinki
1.11.2012 – 31.12.2030
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Children's Town
In Children’s Town, Helsinki’s past is illustrated by means of play and joint activities.
Helsinki City Museum, Helsinki
13.5.2016 – 31.12.2030