The Amuri museum quarter consists of five residential and four outbuildings. All of the former lie in their original positions as do the outbuildings. One outbuilding is a later addition housing a mixed public sauna. Just as with old Amuri, the mu...

The Emil Aaltonen Museum of industry and art was opened in Pyynikinlinna on 8.6.2004. Pyynikinlinna is located in the peaceful, garden-like quarter of Pyynikki, built in the early years of the last century. Pyynikinlinna’s windows, balconies and gard...

The Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame is one of the five museums in the world that have specialized in the history of ice hockey. The museum holds more than 10,000 objects in its collections. The vigorous journey of the Finnish ice hockey from the late ...

The Hiekka Art Museum has been named after its founder Kustaa Hiekka, a highly esteemed goldsmith in the Finnish jewellery industry. Kustaa Hiekka was an avid collector of art. His interest in art extended beyond the traditional forms of visual ar...

The only permanent Lenin Museum in the world is located at the Worker's Hall of Tampere, Finland, inside the hall where Lenin and Stalin met for the first time in 1905. The original function of the museum was to present the life and ideas of Leni...

Rupriikki takes you on a journey into the world of mass media and the news making process. Come and relive the events that shaped history. At Rupriikki, you`ll learn about the latest news and how various media create their messages. You´ll also get ...

The Moominvalley of the Tampere Art Museum is a museum devoted to original works by writer and artist Tove Jansson. Its unique collections comprise around 2,000 works. The museum is based on the Moomin books by Tove Jansson. So far, they have been...

The Moominvalley of the Tampere Art Museum is a museum devoted to original works by writer and artist Tove Jansson. Its unique collections comprise around 2,000 works. The museum is based on the Moomin books by Tove Jansson. So far, they have been...

The Museum Centre of Tampere, Vapriikki, is housed in what used to be the engineering works of Tampella Ltd. on the banks of the Tammerkoski Rapids (one of Finland’s official national scenic areas). The factories are now silent, but the red-brick wal...

NOTE! MUSEUM IS CLOSED AND WILL BE OPEN IN 2009 AT HÄME MUSEUM, TAMPERE. The mother of the Museum of Dolls and Costumes, Mrs Gunvor Ekroos, née Grahn (1907-1982) opened the museum in her home, in Haihara Mansion in 1966. There she had sheltered fa...