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Helsinki City Museum welcomes new director
Reetta Heiskanen has been hired as the new director of the Helsinki City Museum and will begin in her position […]
Helsinki’s libraries, museums and centres for sports, culture and youth activities gradually resume operations
The City of Helsinki’s Culture and Leisure Division has begun preparations to start reopening its services, in accordance with recent […]
Over a thousand works published online by the Helsinki City Museum
The Helsinki City Museum has published online over 1400 additional works. These works have previously been available for the public […]
360 Faces of the city – Fly over Helsinki on a Zeppelin airship!
In the City Museum’s Time Machine the new multisensory virtual experience 360 Faces of the City takes visitors to 1930s […]
A new architecture guide takes you around the art nouveau Helsinki
Owls and trolls, junipers and ferns, turrets and stone walls, pastel-coloured facades, buildings with names… In Helsinki, entire neighbourhoods are […]
Time Machine 2.0 virtual experience opens in honour of Signe Brander’s anniversary
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of beloved Finnish photographer Signe Brander. To commemorate the occasion, Helsinki City Museum has created a new 2.0 version of the Time Machine virtual experience.
Helsinki City Museum has its third consecutive record-breaking year
In 2018, the museums of the Helsinki City Museum family were visited by a total of 444,898 people. The year […]
Scale model of Helsinki in 1878 comes alive through augmented reality
The Helsinki Bites exhibition gives visitors to the Helsinki City Museum an opportunity to experience the capital’s past through all […]
CITY MUSEUM THE MOST POPULAR MUSEUM IN 2018
The success story of Finnish museums continues. According to the preliminary information of the Finnish Heritage Agency, professionally maintained museums […]
Habi Kids to celebrate children’s urban culture in 2019
The children’s area at Habitare, Habi Kids, will bring the urban culture of Helsinki and the joy of playing games […]