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.
At the Shipyard of Jakobstad you can find the war indemnity schoonert Vega and the galeas Jacobstads Wapen which is a replica built with drawings from the 18th century
Pietarsaari
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
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
The Ehrensvärd Museum on the original central courtyard of Suomenlinna sea fortress shows the life at Commander’s House.
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
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
During the Winter War and Continuation Wars, 1939-40 and 1941-44, the headquarters of the Finnish Army were located in Mikkeli.
Mikkeli
The Hotel and Restaurant Museum is a museum specialised in the history of hotels, restaurants, cafés, tourism and Finnish food culture.
Helsinki
Built in England (Newcastle upon Tyne) in 1907, Tarmo was the Grand Duchy of Finland’s third icebreaker upon its completion.
Kotka
The museum presents the development, equipment and activities of the Finnish infantry from Swedish era to the present day.
Mikkeli
Writer and parsonage museum in historical Koljonvirta
Iisalmi
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 Lotta-Svärd organization was the largest women's voluntary national defence organization in the world.
Tuusula
A restored Finnish submarine from the 1930s and 1940s.
Helsinki
In Military Museum´s Manege you can familiarise yourself with the history of the Finnish Defence Forces during 100 years.
Helsinki
At the Moomin museum you step into an exciting magical world of Tove Jansson’s Moomin books.
Tampere
Kiasma is a home of contemporary art where everyone is welcome.
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
Möhkö ironworks was in operation during the period of 1838-1907.
Ilomantsi
The North Karelian Museum is located in the centre of Joensuu, in the Carelicum building.
Joensuu
At Parppeinvaara you'll find a collection of historic buildings based on the theme of local tradition.
Ilomantsi
The oldest surviving wooden house in Turku holds charming chambers as well as Finland's oldest pharmacy interior.
Turku
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 Rauma Art Museum is home to changing contemporary art exhibitions and the art collections of the City of Rauma.
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
Dramatised history and art in the former head office of the Serlachius paper company.
Mänttä-Vilppula
The Heritage House and the open-air museum by it tell about the history of the Skolt Sámi inhabitants of Sevettijärvi.
Inari
First museum of global espionage in the world.
Tampere
The museum focuses on the the history of glass.
Riihimäki
The collections of objects, photographs, art and textiles relate the maritime history and trading traditions of the town.
Pietarsaari
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 museum focuses on the natural habitat and cultural heritage of Lapland.
Rovaniemi
Museum is closed due to renovation and will be opened again in May 2021.
Kemiönsaari
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
This more than 700 year old granite castle is one of the top sights in Finland.
Turku
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
The Winter War Museum tells people about the events of the Winter War in Kuhmo.
Kuhmo
Åland’s story, from the first seal-hunters, who set foot on these rocky islands, to today’s global and multi-cultural society.
Maarianhamina
In the Joensuu Bunker Museum you can explore two concrete dugouts and both stone and wooden fortifications belonging to the Salpa Line constructed during the second World War.
Joensuu
The Ensign Stål's Centre comprises the area next to the battlefield of Oravais including its monument and buildings.
Oravainen
The field headquarters of Major General E.
Ilomantsi
The local museum in Halsua shows how people have lived there from the 18th century onwards.
Halsua
The Herbarium was founded in 1919 when the collections of Dr.
Turku
Over 20 peasant buildings and the house where sculptor Elias Ilkka (1889-1968) lived.
Jalasjärvi
A 19th century farmhouse representing agrarian culture.
Uusikaupunki
Farming, hunting and fishing implements, furnishings of an iron work, a dairy and an old church.
Karstula
A dwelling-house, a loft, a granary, a barn, a windmill and a dugout illustrating the war times.
Kinnula
The museum is devoted to the battles of Kollaa during the Winter War, 1939-40.
Rautjärvi
The main attraction is the cottage of the last veteran of the War of Finland (1808-09), ensign Polviander.
Ylöjärvi
Turku
Mikkeli
Peasant buidlings.
Muonio
Housed in an old farmhouse, the museum presents the development of a peasant household from the 18th century onwards.
Valtimo
A loan grain storehouse and five churchstables with collections of peasant artefacts and toys.
Rauma
The museum is a specialized museum of military history presenting wartime medical care from front-line conditions to military hospitals.
Lahti
The museum of the Kauhajoki veterans presenting memories of the war.
Kauhajoki
Items related to the Russo-Swedish war of 1808-09.
Alavus
The museum tells of the situation at the front and at home during the Second World War in 1939-1945.
Loviisa
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
The museum farm is a significant part of Finnish building heritage.
Ristiina
Tools dating from the end of the 19th century onwards.
Juuka
The collections, housed in the Viiainen Manor dating from 1784, present several aspects of the rural class society.
Taivassalo
The lighthouse is built in 1906 and is the tallest lighthouse building in the Nordic countries.
Kemiönsaari
The house focuses on the Second World War and the periods of evacuation and reconstruction.
Ilomantsi
The settlementsmuseum exhibits colonizations of the evacuated Finns after the 2 nd worldwar.
Lapinlahti
A house museum.
Kolari
The Frontier Guard Museum located at the eastern end of the Raate road in Suomussalmi is restored to its state in 1939.
Suomussalmi
Presentation of voluntary national defence work and women's voluntary defence organisation (Lotta Svärd).
Säkylä
The private collection of Verner Rasmus (1901-1988) with special interest in chinaware.
Vöyri-Maksamaa
Peasant artefacts from the end of the 18th century onwards, ecclesiastical objects from the end of the 17th century onwards.
Veteli
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 museum presents four interesting units: a workingclass home from the early 20th century, an office of the 1920´s, a collection of office equipment and a typical Finnish post-war home from the late 1940´s.
Kouvola