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.
A visitors centre for science, nature, art and culture – in the middle of the Archipelago Sea UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.
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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
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
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 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
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
The Finnish Aviation Museum is an exciting visiting destination for the whole family, located in the heart of the Aviapolis area in Vantaa.
Vantaa
The biggest ice hockey museum in Europe presents the history of ice hockey in Finland and elsewhere.
Tampere
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
Finnish railway history in 19th century station milieu
Hyvinkää
A museum for the whole family!
Espoo
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
Museum ship Suomen Joutsen full-rigger. Open during summer months only.
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
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
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
Life in the fortress and the town presented in the brick house from 1760, the oldest town building in Hamina.
Hamina
The museum’s permanent exhibition Hanko in Foreign Hands has been completely renewed.
Hanko
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 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
The Hotel and Restaurant Museum is a museum specialised in the history of hotels, restaurants, cafés, tourism and Finnish food culture.
Helsinki
Designed by the architects Gesellius, Lindgren and Saarinen and completed in 1903, Hvitträsk is a unique comprehensive work of art that is of particular interest to those interested in design and architecture.
Kirkkonummi
Museum organizes changing exhibitions of Finnish and international contemporary art and art history.
Hyvinkää
Living Home & Museum – experiences and culture since 1593
Somero
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
Museum of cultural history, Art museum, Keuruu Old Church, Pihlajavesi Wilderness Church, Pihlajavesi Museum, the new churches in Keuruu and Pihlajavesi.
Keuruu
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
Stories about the famous village distillery, history of alcohol in Finland and the famous Könni clocksmiths.
Ilmajoki
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 15th April 2021.
Kuopio
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 Imperial Fishing Lodge, surrounded by beautiful rapid scenery, was built for Czar Alexander III in 1889.
Kotka
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
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
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
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
Hämeenlinna
The Museum of Central Finland specializes in cultural history.
Jyväskylä
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
The museum focuses on the cultural and domestic history of Oulu and northern Ostrobothnia.
Oulu
Valkeakoski
The museum is housed in the main building of a parsonage (built 1812, rebuilt 1854) and several outbuildings.
Mäntyharju
The Koli Nature Centre Ukko offers Finland's best known national landscape, the hills of Eastern Finland and heritage sites.
Lieksa
Finnish mining industry from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day.
Outokumpu
Second biggest outdoor museum in Finland with around 70 buildings.
Lieksa
Permanent art exhibition of sculptor Eero Hiironen (1938-2018), sculpture garden and changing exhibitions.
Ähtäri
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
In the Crown Granary, you can learn more about Raahe´s history, from prehistory to the present day.
Raahe
A castle ruin with thousand stories.
Raasepori
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
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
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
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
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
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.The 2nd Floor of the Museum is closed until 26.11.2021 due to renovation.
Helsinki
Ski Museum – Snow Fun Year-round!
Lahti
Come and experience life as it may have been at the turn of the 20th century in the countryside in Swedish-speaking Ostrobothnia.
Mustasaari
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
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 shows a traditional peasant home with the front-room decorated as a wedding-room.
Vaasa
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
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
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
The museum focuses on the natural habitat and cultural heritage of Lapland.
Rovaniemi
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
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 a farmyard complex typical of this region, with all appropriate buildings and equipment.
Oulu
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
UNESCO World Heritage site that captures an interesting phase of development in Finland’s industrial history.
Kouvola
The museum is located in the oldest existing railway station in Finland (1862).
Vantaa
A military history museum presenting the history of the Salpa Line fortification with both indoor and outdoor exhibitions.
Virolahti
National museum for peacekeeping and crisis management, which also fosters the legacy of the tradition of veterans and voluntary national defence.
Hamina
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
Laukaa
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 museum consists of the two-storey house of a landlord and several peasant buildings.
Raasepori
Burghers home from the early 20th century.
Kalajoki
The Herbarium was founded in 1919 when the collections of Dr.
Turku
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
The museum is located in the Cultural Centre of Imatra.
Imatra
Imatra Town Museum was founded in 1974.
Imatra
The childhood home of writer Johannes Linnankoski (1869-1913), alias Vihtori Peltonen, dates from 1886.
Askola
Objects used in agriculture and forestry.
Loviisa
The museum presents local peasant culture in the 18th-century buildings.
Jämsä
The museum presents as special features: Puukko (knife) daggers and textiles.
Kauhava
Finnish and foreign contemporary art.
Kerava
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
A house museum with furniture and courtyard.
Kärkölä
History of the mother parish of Laukaa since the beginning of the 16th century.
Laukaa
Local history in an old grain store.
Lieto
The museum presents peasant artefacts, especially sleds and sleighs.
Hämeenlinna
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
Mynämäki
An open-air exhibition of folk buildings.
Oulu
The museums includes the sections of baron Gustaf Wrede af Elimä and the church museum.
Parkano
Finland´s only police museum is open to everyone!The Police Museum is located in the Tampere suburb of Hervanta.
Tampere
The museum portrays the history of both national and local photography.
Lapua
Salo Historical Museum SAMU stores and displays material related to the City of Salo´s cultural and industrial heritage.
Salo
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
Rauma
Finnish cars and traffic culture from the 1920´s to the 1970´s.
Lappeenranta
The collection comprises over100 cars, 20 motorcycles and 20 mopeds covering a time span of 80 years.
Espoo
Vaasa
Two windmills from the 1840´s, a fisherman´s cottage at the harbour of Harrström.
Korsnäs
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
About fifteen old fire engines and fire-fighting articles.
Hammarland
The Öjskogsparken Local Museum is a centre for museum and theatre activities.
Närpiö