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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Haihatus Art Center and Residency is an inspiring, relaxed, and international art centre and residence in Joutsa, Finland, that hosts different kinds of cultural events.
Joutsa
Experience nature in Kuusamo as never before in Finland's first nature photography centre.
Kuusamo
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
Alvar Aalto´s Villa Kokkonen is a unique masterpiece which creates a harmony between nature, human being, building art and music. Entrance, guidad tour and mini concert 13 € / person or with a museum card.
Järvenpää
Amos Rex is an art museum where the past, present and future meet.
Helsinki
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 Ateneum is Finland’s best-known art museum and the home of Finnish art. Closed at the moment to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
Helsinki
The only museum in Finland in which the permanent exhibition is made up of dioramas only.
Turku
Birthplace of the famous Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.
Hämeenlinna
The oldest museum in Finland (1862) with vast collection of articles connected with seafaring, trade and sailing ship era.
Raahe
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
Heinola Art Museum is located in a 1830s' empire style building. The museum hosts changing art exhibitions around the year. It is also the home of a large book collection and a collection of old European porcelain.
Heinola
The museum building is build an 1872 empire house, build for merchant Ulrik Lindholmin (1825–90).
Heinola
The world's only museum focusing on Helsinki.
Helsinki
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
Birth home of Finland's national writer Aleksis Kivi.
Nurmijärvi
The Hotel and Restaurant Museum is a museum specialised in the history of hotels, restaurants, cafés, tourism and Finnish food culture.
Helsinki
Museum exhibits local history and has special sections devoted to locals President Risto Ryti and sculptor Lauri Leppänen. One of the museum's specialities is also the collection of 600 traditional Finnish belt knives.
Huittinen
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
Hämeenlinna Art Museum is a diverse museum of visual arts near the centre of Hämeenlinna.
Hämeenlinna
Hämeenlinna City Museums exhibitions, shop and lounge.
Hämeenlinna
Living Home & Museum – experiences and culture since 1593
Somero
The museum presents the development, equipment and activities of the Finnish infantry from Swedish era to the present day.
Mikkeli
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
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
Discover a century of activity in the Ebeneser Kindergarten!
Helsinki
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
The birthplace and childhood home of writer Sakari Topelius (1818-1898).
Uusikaarlepyy
Contemporary Art & Design since 1928.
Helsinki
One of the most important classic collections of contemporary art in Finland.
Vaasa
Kuopio Museum is closed for renovations. We will be open in June 2021.
Kuopio
Kurikka museum has a variety of exhibitions that present the history of Kurikka and its culture.
Kurikka
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
Lapua
The museum is located in the lush, green parkland of Lohja's old vicarage, right next tothe city centre.
Lohja
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
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
Muisti Centre of War and Peace shares experiences of war in order to promote peace.
Mikkeli
A turn of the century bourgeois home.
Turku
Hämeenlinna
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
The museum of Technology presents the history of technology and industry as a story about Finland and the Finns – bringing the stories to life. It is the only general museum of technology in Finland. The Museom of Technology is closed 28.11.2020-5.4.2021!
Helsinki
The permanent exhibition includes a bourgeois residence and a craftsman´s town home from the late 19th century.
Naantali
The Koli Nature Centre Ukko offers Finland's best known national landscape, the hills of Eastern Finland and heritage sites.
Lieksa
The North Karelian Museum is located in the centre of Joensuu, in the Carelicum building.
Joensuu
School equipment in a classroom from the 1920´s in the building of the first elementary school of Nurmijärvi, built in 1873.
Nurmijärvi
The history of the Nurmes area is presented from the prehistory to the present day trough objects and photographs.
Nurmes
The history of the oldest glass factory in Finland.
Urjala
See paintings and sculptures from famous Finnish artists from 19th and 20th century and get to know the life of the Erkko brothers, who were know as writers and newspaper men.
Orimattila
Finnish mining industry from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day.
Outokumpu
Permanent art exhibition of sculptor Eero Hiironen (1938-2018), sculpture garden and changing exhibitions.
Ähtäri
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
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
Rauma Maritime Museum offers a view to the medieval town to which sea and seafaring have always been vitally important.
Rauma
Marela shows the life and lifestyle of a wealthy shipowner and his family at the turn of the 1900s, the golden age of seafaring in Rauma.
Rauma
RIISA is a museum with a soul.
Kuopio
An open-air museum comprising an original farmstead dating back to the 19:th century.
Karttula
The factory museum displays products, machines and tools of the Rosenlew company.
Pori
Saarijärvi Museum is a data bank of Northern Central Finland. The museum has art and cultural history exhibitions throughout the year.
Saarijärvi
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
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
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
First museum of global espionage in the world.
Tampere
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
The Särestöniemi Museum in Kaukonen, Kittilä, displays the art and working environment of Reidar Särestöniemi (1925-1981).
Kittilä
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
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 is a specialized museum for craft covering entire Finland.
Jyväskylä
The museum focuses on the the history of glass.
Riihimäki
Museum is closed 8.-28.3.2021.The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas is the biggest museum in Finland which have free admission.
Tampere
Collections are owned by the Nature Conservation Society of South-West Häme, founded in 1951 by professor Torild Brander.
Forssa
The studio home in National Romantic style of painter Pekka Halonen (1865-1933) by the Tuusulanjärvi Lake.
Tuusula
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 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
Museum is closed due to renovation and will be opened again in May 2021.
Kemiönsaari
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 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
Liedon Vanhalinnas historic hill fortification is a popular cultural destination by the beautiful Aurajoki river valley.
Lieto
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
A military history museum presenting the history of the Salpa Line fortification with both indoor and outdoor exhibitions.
Virolahti
History of a wooden town and seafaring.
Uusikaupunki
Please note. Admission must be booked in advance. We take 10 visitors at a time until March 28th.WAM is an art museum of the City of Turku, whose varying exhibitions present contemporary art phenomena locally as well as internationally.
Turku
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
Works by sculptor Yrjö Liipola (1881-1971).
Koski Tl
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
Veikko Salkio´s Natral History Collection, Viljo Nissinen´s Mineral Collection, Armas Järvelä´s Lepidoptera Collection.
Kokkola
Turku
A mill built in 1807 of grey stone, miller´s cottage and exhibition space in a parallel cahmber building dating from the 18th century.
Lieto
The first school building in Salo houses today an interior museum, which presents e.
Salo
The museum presents local history and the means of livelihood in the Halikko region.
Salo
Kaustinen
Stylish pharmacy interior from the 1890´s and lots of pharmacy items - oldest ones from 18th century.
Raahe
The Päivälehti Museum presents the history of media, modern-day media and the future of media as well as the freedom of speech in Finland and in other countries.
Helsinki
Portraits, sketches and works of plaster by sculptor Walter Runeberg (1838-1920), son of the poet J.
Porvoo