Seurasaari Open-Air Museum (Skanzen)

Tel.: +358 9 4050 9574
Fax.: +358 9 4050 -9665 / -9579

Info Telefon: +358 9 4050 9660
Besucher-Email: seurasaarenulkomuseo@nba.fi
http://www.nba.fi/en/seurasaari_openairm...

The National Board of Antiquities of Finland

15.5. - 31.5. and 1.9. - 15.9.
Mon - Fri 9 am - 3 pm
Sat - Sun 11 am - 5 pm
On May 29th the museum is open 11 am - 5 pm.

1.6. - 31.8.: Mon - Sun 11 am - 5 pm

Museum is closed on Midsommer's Eve 20.6.

The museum locates in Meilahti, about 4 km from the Helsinki city centre.
Bus number 24, last stop at Seurasaari.

All the different provinces of Finland are represented in the well preserved old buildings and they give an overall view of Finnish countryside life from the 18th to the 20th century. At present, there are 87 separate buildings at Seurasaari Museum.

Photography © The National Board of Antiquities.
 

Sports Museum

Tel.: +358-9-4342 250
Fax.: +358-9-4342 2550

Info Telefon: +358-9-4342 250
Besucher-Email: urheilumuseo@stadion.fi
http://www.urheilumuseo.fi/...

The Sports Museum Foundation of Finland

The Sports Museum, Sports Library and Sports Archives of Finland are located in an extension wing on the western side (Tower side) of the Helsinki Olympic Stadium.
Mondays to Fridays
11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Saturdays to Sundays
12 - 4 p.m.
copyright Datenbank VCMS 2007

The collections of the Sports Museum of Finland include almost 30,000 objects, representing a wide span of sports and many aspects of physical culture, covering a time span of more than 2,000 years. The oldest exhibit dates from the 5th century B.C., the newest ones are from our times. The two most cherished items on display are the gilded spike shoe of Paavo Nurmi and the medal collection of Matti Nykänen.

Photography © Urheilumuseo
 

Tamminiemi Villa

Tel.: +358 9 40 501
Fax.: +358 9 4050 9653

Info Telefon: +358 9 4050 9650
Besucher-Email: urhokekkosenmuseo@nba.fi
http://www.nba.fi/en/ukk_museum...

The National Board of Antiquities of Finland

Year round Wed - Sun 11 am - 5 pm

Bus 24 from Helsinki centre (the same bus as for Seurasaari)

Tamminiemi Villa is located in Meilahti adjacent to Seurasaari museum island on a beautiful park estate which used to be President Urho Kekkonen's official residence during his period in office between 1956 and 1981. In those days it was known as the centre of Finland's political and governmental life. Tamminiemi is furnished the way it was in Kekkonen's time.
 

Tram Museum

Tel.: +358 (0)9 169 3422
Fax.: +358 (0)9 667 665

Info Telefon: +358 (0)9 3107 8829
Besucher-Email: kaupunginmuseo@hel.fi
http://www.helsinginkaupunginmuseo.fi/...

Helsinki City Museum

Mon–Sun 11–17

A museum devoted to the Helsinki public transport is located at the city's oldest tram depot (from 1900). The recently modernised exhibition presents trams, starting with horse-drawn carriages, objects and pictures as well as a traffic data bank.
The architect of the tram hall was Valdemar Aspelin. The brick structure with its shallow saddled roofs and simple ornamentation is typical of late-19th century industrial architecture.

Photography © Helsinki City Museum.
 

Kirpilä Art Collection

Tel.: +358 9 494 436
Fax.: +358 (0) 9 447 658

Info Telefon: + 358 (0) 9 494 436
Besucher-Email: taidekoti@skr.fi
http://www.skr.fi/en/cultural-activities...

The Finnish Cultural Foundation

The museum is open Wednesdays 2-6 p.m. and Sundays 12-4 p.m.
Guided tours and group visits are arranged by appointment. Free entrance.

Trams 4, 7 ja 10

The Kirpilä Art Collection is the former home of Doctor Juhani Kirpilä (1931-1988), art collector, who bequethed his property to the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

Taidekoti Kirpilä where Juhani Kirpilä's collection of Finnish art is exhibited, was opened to the public in summer 1992 according to Kirpilä's wishes "for the promotion of Finnish interest in art".
Picture © Kirpilä Art Collection
 

Didrichsen Museum of Art and Culture

Fax.: +358-9-489 167

Info Telefon: +358-9-4778 330
Besucher-Email: office@didrichsenmuseum.fi
http://www.didrichsenmuseum.fi/eng/conta...

28.2.-31.5.2015: Tue-Sun 11-18

1.6.-31.8.2015: Tue-Sun 11-17

Buses
194, 195 from Eliel Square (Elielinaukio), platform 36
and 503-506. Second bus stop in Kuusisaari, the stop number is 1412.

The collection consists of Finnish art from the 20th century among others Edelfelt, Cawén, Schjerfbeck, Särestöniemi, Linnovaara, Hiltunen and Pullinen. In the modern international art collection there are works by: Picasso, Kandinsky, Miró, Léger, Moore, Giacometti and Arp.
Finland's only Pre-Columbian art collection (Olmec, Jalisco, Colima and Maya) is situated in the basement where you also can find the Oriental art. The oriental art collection is dominated by Chinese art from the Shang-dynasty (abt 1500-1028) B.C. to the Ming-dynasty (1368-1644).
Photography © Hugo Simberg, Heinäkuun kuutamo / Månsken i juli Didrichsen Museum
 

Villa Gyllenberg Art Collection

Tel.: +358-(0)9 481 333
Fax.: +358-(0)9-607119

Info Telefon: +358-(0)9-647390
Besucher-Email: stiftelsen@gyllenberg-foundation.fi
http://www.gyllenberg-foundation.fi/...

Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation

Wednesday 16-20, Sunday 12-16, closed in July.

The home of Signe and Ane Gyllenberg, Villa Gyllenberg, has been built to a design by Matti Finell in 1938, with an extension added in 1955. It stands on the south-west shoreline of Kuusisaari and commands a panoramic view of Laajalahti Bay. The Gallen-Kallela Museum at Tarvaspää in Espoo is one of the buildings visible on the opposite shore. The Didrichsen Art Museum is only three hundred metres away.
The museum features the art collection of Signe and Ane Gyllenberg, old Finnish and European art. The permanent collection comprises works representing Finnish art during a period of just over two centuries (1756-1970), some two hundred items in all. All of the well-known older Finnish painters are represented. The collection of works by Helene Schjerfbeck is one of the largest in private ownership. There are also several pieces of sculpture, mainly by Finnish artists. The collection of foreign works comprises 16th- and 17th-century masterpieces by artists including Titian, Tintoretto, Tiarini and Piero di Cosimo. In the old part of the building, the Gyllenberg family's home has been preserved, with the furniture and paintings in the same places as during the lifetime of Signe and Ane. On the upper floor, where the couple's bedroom and Ane's study were located, special exhibitions are now arranged.

Photos:
Juhani Linnovaara, 1934-: Självporträtt med klocka, 1953
Marcus Collin, 1882-1966: Gatuscen, 1905
 

The Kindergarten Museum

Fax.: +358 (0)9 701 9895

Info Telefon: +358 (0)9 731 0140
Besucher-Email: info@ebeneser.fi
http://www.ebeneser.fi/...

All year on wednesdays. At other times by appointment. Groups only by previous prior appointment.

The collection includes objects from as early as the 19th gathered from the Ebeneser kindergarten, Helsinki public kindergartens and the Helsinki City Museum. Visitors can find genuine Fröbel's blocks and paraphernelia for playing house or building miniature city as well as small tools connected with household chores such as a children´s washboard and a ''stone'' laundry wringer made of wood.
Photography © Kindergarten Museum.
 

Worker Housing Museum

Tel.: +358 (0)40 590 5516
Fax.: +358 (0)9 667 665

Info Telefon: +358 (0)9 3107 1548
Besucher-Email: kaupunginmuseo@hel.fi
http://www.helsinginkaupunginmuseo.fi/...

Helsinki City Museum

7.5.–26.10.2014
Wed–Sun 11–17 h.

The Worker Housing Museum is located in the oldest apartments built by the city for its own workers in Helsinki. The one-room apartments, so called stove rooms, have been furnished and decorated as homes of people that lived in the house in different times.

Not much remains of the tightly built working class neighbourhood that sprang up behind the Pitkäsilta Bridge at the turn of the 20th century – the museum building is one of the few houses left. Next to the Linnanmäki amusement park, the hundred-year-old wooden house brings to life the working class lifestyle of 20th century Helsinki.

In the beginning of the 20th century, in order to improve the poor living conditions of the working class, the city of Helsinki decided to build well-equipped apartments for its own workers on a street then called Kristiinankatu. The apartments were let to workers who had served the city for a long time, and who preferably had large families. The rents were high but the tenants happy.

Wooden houses in the Kallio area started to disappear rapidly from the 1950s onwards. Also the apartments on Kirstinkatu were condemned in 1966 and were left to deteriorate. Life in the houses became restless. The buildings were protected in the city plan in 1986. Three of the buildings were renovated as modern apartments, and one of them was turned into the Worker Housing Museum by the City Museum. The well-preserved building was repaired with care, and as much of the old was preserved as possible.

The museum shop sells nostalgic products that not only make great gifts, but are also attractive additions to your own home. The selection includes old-fashioned but functional kitchen utensils, home-made mustard, tea cloths decorated with pictures of plants that grow in the yards of traditional workers’ homes, and many other exciting finds.

Photography © Helsinki City Museum.
 

Finnish Museum of Natural History - LUOMUS

Info Telefon: +358-9-1911 (switchboard)
Besucher-Email: luonnontieteellinenmuseo@helsinki.fi
http://www.luomus.fi/en...

University of Helsinki

open Tue–Sun, see http://www.luomus.fi/en/natural-history-museum
copyright Datenbank VCMS 2007

The Natural History Museum is located near the bus and metro stations in Kamppi. It’s only a walk from the central railway station and the Eliel Square.

Bus number 24 (Merikatu-Seurasaari) stops at the Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu, near the museum.

The Museum does not have parking space reserved for visitors. The P-Presidentti car park is situated near the museum. The streets close-by also have paid parking space.

The Finnish Museum of Natural History is an independent research institution functioning under the University of Helsinki. It is also one of the three central national museums in Finland and responsible for the national collections in its field. The collections, which include botanical, zoological, geological and paleontological specimens from all over the world, serve research in the fields of biology and geology as well as educational purposes.

The collections include botanical, zoological, geological and paleontological specimens from all over the world. The University of Helsinki Museum of Natural History consists of the Botanical Garden, the Botanical Museum, the Geological Museum and the Zoological Museum.
The Botanical Garden at Kaisaniemi is situated very close to the city centre. The gallery between the large and small glasshouses is used to host temporary exhibitions, mostly on themes connected to the natural world.
The collections of the Geological museum's Mineral cabinet are on display in the Arppeanum building. The Mineral cabinet exhibits fossils, minerals, rocks and meteorites.
Photography © Finnish Museum of Natural History