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.
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
Sarka is the national museum of agriculture.
Loimaa
In Forngården, situated near Raseborg castle ruins, you can explore the life of a fisherman home dating from the 18th-19th century.
Raasepori
Local means of livelihood like hunting, fishing and tar trade.
Kajaani
The museum, situated in an19th-century farmhouse, displays traditional peasant life in Kustavi, especially fishing and seafaring.
Kustavi
Peasant life, everyday life and celebration, from Kuusamo in the first decades of the 20th century.
Kuusamo
The Imperial Fishing Lodge, surrounded by beautiful rapid scenery, was built for Czar Alexander III in 1889.
Kotka
The history of the oldest glass factory in Finland.
Urjala
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
History of a wooden town and seafaring.
Uusikaupunki
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
Horsedrawn agricultural implements, old fishing equipment and a village shop from older times.
Pyhäjoki
The history of the archipelago is presented in the museum.
Brändö
The former dwelling of a parish clerck, dating from the 1860´s.
Maalahti
Fishing and sealing implements and a large collection of utility boats.
Luoto
Farming and fishing implements and household utensils.
Eurajoki
A museum presenting fishing implements.
Kokkola
An overall view of life in the coastal region, when the principal sources of livelihood were fishing, seal hunting, farming and handicraft.
Mustasaari
Household utensils, farming, fishing and hunting implements.
Toholampi
Traditional means of livelihood, such as farming, fishing, hunting and keeping of cattle.
Juuka
The museum area includes eleven buildings around an enclosed Ostrobothnian farmyard, as special item the tannery.
Kokkola
The museum illustrates sea fishing methods.
Kalajoki
The museum presents traditional peasant life and handicraft of the area, hunting and fishing implements and for example a chimneyless cabin.
Kangasniemi
Farming, hunting and fishing implements, furnishings of an iron work, a dairy and an old church.
Karstula
Objects related to the history of the parish as well as traditional riverfishing implements.
Keminmaa
An extensive outdoor museum in a fishing village with some 20 buildings presenting the fishing and farming culture of the coastal villages of Swedish-speaking Ostrobothnia.
Kristiinankaupunki
Fishing and hunting implements.
Kuhmoinen
Farm buildings, objects related to interior decoration, handicrafts, fishing and flax cultivation.
Jämsä
One of the largest utility boat museums in Fenno-Scandia.
Maalahti
Museum exhibits local weaving and textile traditions as well as fishing and log floating traditions of the meteorite lake.
Lappajärvi
Vehicles, fishing and home-brewing implements, a scale model of a parish village from the early 20th century, a travelling school and interior objects.
Pälkäne
Fishing implements.
Merikarvia
Local means of livelihood, such as salmon fishing, tar-rowing and shooting of the rapids.
Muhos
Farming, fishing and hunting implements, collections of textiles, coins and photographs.
Iisalmi
Rocking-chair-maker´s, cobbler´s and tailor´s shops, river lamprey fishing.
Nakkila
A chimneyless cabin from the 1750´s, an old farmhouse with outbuildings, hunting and fishing implements, old trapping gear in its natural setting.
Kokkola
Local artefacts related to fishing, forestry and log floating, agriculture, shoemaker´s and carpenter´s work, household utensils.
Pelkosenniemi
Life in the outer islands presented in a traditional farmhouse.
Mustasaari
The national poet of Finland, Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804-77), spent the summers of his childhood in this hunting and fishing cottage built in 1811 by Runeberg´s father and uncle.
Pietarsaari
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
The oldest and most comprehensive prehistoric attraction in Finland by the bank of the impact crater lake Summasjärvi.
Saarijärvi
The Saloinen Museum is an extensive complex consisting of 18 different buildings, recounting details about old sources of livelihood in the Saloinen region, i.e. fishing and farming.
Raahe
Watermill from the 1930´s and other buildings in the farmyard; exhibits are mostly fishing and farming implements.
Savonlinna
The collections, housed in the Viiainen Manor dating from 1784, present several aspects of the rural class society.
Taivassalo
Fishing and sealing implements and objects related to the living in the archipelago.
Hamina
The museum is located in an old salting house and it illustrates the fishing tradition in the Gulf of Bothnia off Kaskinen.
Kaskinen
Situated in Asikkala municipality, Vääksy village at Päijännetalo building by the busy canal.
Asikkala
Two windmills from the 1840´s, a fisherman´s cottage at the harbour of Harrström.
Korsnäs
A local history museum housed in a grain store (designed in 1851 by C.
Hattula
Exhibits related to ship- and boatbuilding, hunting and fishing, household and handicrafts as well as the Reitkalli gardening school.
Hamina
Peasant culture along the museum road in a village environment which is culturally and historically valuable.
Virolahti
The museum comprises a single-roomed cottage with a smoke sauna, boat-shed and salting house.
Kokkola