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The Spaces exhibition continued until 29 August – many of the contents can be viewed even when the museum is closed
The Spaces – DIY Music Venues in Helsinki exhibition of Helsinki City Museum will be extended until 29 August 2021. Spaces […]
26.2.2021: Customer premises for culture and leisure remain closed in March
City of Helsinki’s customer premises for culture and leisure will remain mostly closed for the entire duration of March. Leisure […]
A total of 148,303 customers visited Helsinki City Museum in 2020 – museum content was also accessible from home
In 2020, the total number of visitors to the museums of the Helsinki City Museum family – Helsinki City Museum, […]
18.2.2021: Capital region shifts to safe alternating contact teaching in upper secondary education, extends current recommendations and restrictions to end of March
In an 18 February 2021 meeting, the Metropolitan Area coronavirus coordination group decided that the recommendations and restrictions currently in […]
Spaces – the autumn’s loudest exhibition experience takes the audience to DIY music venues of the 2000s
The Spaces – DIY Music Venues in Helsinki exhibition opens at Helsinki City Museum on 13 November 2020. The exhibition […]
Villa Hakasalmi’s new exhibition is a fascinating time jump to Helsinki in the 60s as photographed by Ismo Hölttö
Mini skirts and mop tops, demolition sites and concrete housing estates, confident city folk and the confusion of those moving […]
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 […]
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 […]