hkm-logo
Suomeksi
In English
På svenska
По-русски
Newsletter
  Podcast Instagram
  • Your visit
    • Helsinki City Museum
    • Opening hours and contact details
    • Visiting the museum safely, arrival and accessibility
    • Museum Shop
    • For educational institutions and daycare
    • Book a guided tour
    • Arrange your event
    • Eat and Drink @ Tori Quarters
  • Exhibitions
    • Being Black – Afro Finns’ Experiences
    • In the Quarters of Kruununhaka
    • Children’s Town
    • Time Machine
    • Helsinki Bites
  • What’s on
    • Events
    • Walking Tours
  • Pictures, objects, Helsinki
    • Collections and collection services
    • Picture Browsery
    • Cultural environment
    • Adopt a monument
    • Digital stuff
    • Books and records
    • Ask the museum
    • Suitcase of memories
    • History Helsinki tells the story of Helsinki
  • Info
    • About the Museum
    • News
    • Signe Brander
    • Our museums elsewhere
    • Central Uusimaa Regional Museum
    • Newsletter
    • Volunteers
    • Friends of the Museum
  • Helsinkiphotos.fi
  • Suomeksi
  • In English
  • På svenska
  • По-русски

Children’s Town’s 10th anniversary opens Helsinki City Museum’s Christmas season

News
Children's Town, Christmas, Helsinki CIty Museum

Welcome to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Children’s Town on World Children’s Day on Sunday 20 November. This also marks the start of the Helsinki City Museum’s Christmas season. Enjoy the holiday market, tree decorating, arts and crafts, guided tours and music, as well as the traditional Christmas atmosphere of Helsinki’s oldest wooden house free of charge.

Located in the oldest stone building in Helsinki and dedicated to Helsinki’s youngest residents, Children’s Town is an integral part of the City Museum.

Children’s Town’s Double Digits! birthday party will be celebrated on 20 November at 13:00–16:00. The festivities will include a visit from an old-timey Santa Claus, a festive disco, a puppet show and cake and juice.

Children’s Town has long been a popular venue for birthday parties for families with children. To celebrate the tenth anniversary, the museum is now launching its new Birthday at the Museum! party packages. The City Museum is working with the City of Helsinki’s Child Welfare to make these packages available to low-income families as well.

Holiday market, crafts and a peek into Falkman’s studio

The City Museum’s holiday market will be held on Saturday and Sunday 3–4 December at 11:00–17:00. The weekend will be filled with inspiring gift ideas, delicious treats and a relaxed atmosphere courtesy of a range of vendors and local producers. The vendors include Café Ursula, Helsinki Coffee Roastery, Mesila isä & poika, Rouva Rusakko, Paula From and the craftspeople of Pro Kädentaitajat ry, among others. The museum shop offers a variety of Christmas gift ideas, such as the books Helsinki väreissä and Tarinoita ratikoista. The museum’s bilingual tram-themed advent calendar is illustrated by Jonna Jylhä. Various Christmas treasures can also be found at Villa Hakasalmi, the Tram Museum and the shop of the Burgher’s House Museum.

During the holiday season, Children’s Town will be organising independent workshops for small Christmas decorations made from paper and cardboard. On 11 December at 12:00–15:00, there will also be a workshop in the museum lobby where you can craft mobile toys to take home with you. The toys will also serve as Christmas decorations. Visitors can also leave their own Christmas memories on the Christmas tree in the lobby.

Very few people know the oldest remaining artist’s studio deep within the City Museum, which the Swedish-born artist Severin Falkman (1831–1889) built for himself in 1872. Falkman’s studio will be open to the public on Sunday 4 December at 12:00–15:00.

Christmas cheer of eras past in the oldest wooden house in Helsinki

The Christmas season at the Burgher’s House will start on the Saturday before the first Advent on 26 November. The small wooden house, which is particularly popular during the holidays, is decorated every Christmas in the style of the mid-19th century. The Christmas event at the Burgher’s House will take place on 11 December at 12:00–15:00. The outbuilding’s chamber will feature a workshop for making Christmas tree decorations based on authentic 19th century instructions, and Lempikuoro’s double quartet will perform festive tunes in the courtyard.

Christmas season events at Helsinki City Museum:

Double Digits! Children’s Town birthday party and opening of the Christmas season
Sun 20 November at 13:00–16:00
City Museum holiday market
Sat–Sun 3–4 December at 11:00–17:00
Christmas Teams craft workshop
Sun 11 December at 12:00–15:00

Read more: helsinginkaupunginmuseo.fi/en/events

Christmas season events at the Burgher’s House:

Crafting Christmas tree decorations in the sleeping chamber
Sat 26 November, 3 December and 17 December at 14:00–15:00
Christmas event at the Burgher’s House
Sun 11 December at 12:00–15:00

Read more: ruiskumestarintalo.fi/en

Opening hours during the Christmas season:

Helsinki City Museum (Aleksanterinkatu 16)
Mon–Fri 11:00–19:00, Sat–Sun 11:00–17:00
Closed on 6 December, 24–25 December and 1 January

Burgher’s House (Kristianinkatu 12)
26 November–21 December 2022
Wed–Fri at 13:00–18:00
Sat–Sun at 11:00–17:00
22 December 2022–8 January 2023
Wed–Sun at 11:00–17:00
Closed on 6 December, 24–26 December and 1 January

Tram Museum (Töölönkatu 51 A)
Mon–Fri at 11:00–17:00
Closed on 6 December, 9 December, 24–25 December, 31 December and 1 January

Image: Children’s Town Double Digits! birthday party. Illustrations: Riku Ounaslehto / Napa Agency.

Share on Facebook
Facebook
Tweet about this on Twitter
Twitter
Share on LinkedIn
Linkedin
Published: 14.11.2022
Afro Finns’ experiences and stories in Helsinki City Museum 22 April–24 September 2023
News
Helsinki City Museum again most popular museum in Finland
News
The Helsinki City Museum will be sponsor for culture kids in 2023
News
Arrange a joyful party at the Children’s Town!
News
Voluntary sex work highlighted as a museum exhibition theme for the first time in Finland
News

Helsinki City Museum

Aleksanterinkatu 16
+358 9 310 36630
kaupunginmuseo@hel.fi

Postal address

Helsinki City Museum
P.O. Box 17401
00099 CITY OF HELSINKI

Other contact details

Opening hours

Mon–Fri 11.00–19.00
Sat–Sun 11.00–17.00

Exceptional opening hours

ALWAYS FREE ENTRY

About the Museum

MediaFeedbackWebsite terms of use

Follow us

Facebook Twitter Instagram Subscribe to our newsletter