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The Helsinki City Museum will be sponsor for culture kids in 2023
More than 11,000 children living in Helsinki and 32 arts and culture operators are already within the scope of the […]
Arrange a joyful party at the Children’s Town!
Come and have a fun party in the Crystal room of the Children’s Town, located in the oldest stone house […]
Children’s Town’s 10th anniversary opens Helsinki City Museum’s Christmas season
Welcome to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Children’s Town on World Children’s Day on Sunday 20 November. This also marks […]
Voluntary sex work highlighted as a museum exhibition theme for the first time in Finland
The Helsinki City Museum’s new exhibition Hoes – Voices in Sex Work presents Helsinki from the perspective of sex work. […]
300 years of the Sederholm family in Helsinki
The City Museum goes back to the 1700s by celebrating the Sederholm family who settled in Helsinki 300 years ago. […]
Never-before-seen colour photographs of Helsinki from the 1950s to the 1970s
Helsinki City Museum will publish the ‘Helsinki Väreissä’ (Helsinki in colour) photograph book edited by Satu Savia on 28 September […]
Take part in a survey – Helsinki City Museum is collecting Afro-Finns’ experiences
The Helsinki City Museum is surveying stories and experiences of Afro-Finnish persons’ youth in Helsinki. The answers will be used […]
Bröyerism returns – The forgotten art of ‘poetry dance’ returns on stage
This year marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of dance artist Martta Bröyer. To celebrate the occasion, Helsinki City […]
Leena Arkio-Laine, long-time director of the City Museum, has passed away
The long-time director of the City Museum, Leena Arkio-Laine (1942–2022), has passed away after a brief illness. She served as […]
Honorable mention for Ivan Timiriasew book in Iittala’s national art book competition
The best art books of 2021 were awarded at the Hämeenlinna main library on 11 June 2022. The book Ivan […]