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10 History Museums in Helsinki That You Shouldn't Miss
Sitting on the edge of the Baltic, the modern, cosmopolitan city of Helsinki is the World Design Capital for 2012. The beauty of the surrounding nature blends seamlessly with high-tech achievements and contemporary trends. Walking tours of the city center show layers of history, while modern architecture and cutting-edge style stake the city's claim to the future. Choose Helsinki during its endless summer days or get adventurous on crisp, snowy winter nights.
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1. Museum of Worker Housing (Tyovaenasuntomuseo)
2. Alvar Aalto's studio
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 27 reviews
Reviewed By ZachF247
I toured this before seeing Aalto's house, and I think that was a good order to see them in. There is a 30 minute tour, and then you are free to wander the studio for 30 minutes and take as many pictures as you like. Still used by the Aalto foundation, but you can see all the main rooms and get a good idea of Aalto's work.
3. Seurasaari Island and Open-Air Museum
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 1,357 reviews
Reviewed By Zuevy
Excellent combination of natural park and wooden building museum. Many historical wooden houses from different parts of Finland. Some of its are unique. Also natural park where you can see squirrels, swans, ducks and some other bitrds in their wild life.
4. Museum of Herttoniemi Manor
5. Helsinki City Museum
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 411 reviews
The main building of the Helsinki City Museum, just of the Senate Square, explores the history of Helsinki in film in the exhibition Design in Helsinki Films on 15 Feb 2012 - 13 Jan 2012. In the Museum Shop, literature on Helsinki and Finnish history, a good choice of postcards and souveniers are available. It is always free entry to all 7 branches of the Helsinki City Museum.
Reviewed By zokirdzonova - Helsinki, Finland
The museum is FREE! This is super nice in expensive city as Helsinki is. Few floors with main exhibition about history of Helsinki and exhibitions what can be changed. Very modern museum where you can feel how is to live in Helsinki century ago. I enjoyed and after visiting was so good emotions.
6. The National Museum of Finland
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 858 reviews
National Museum illustrates Finnish history from medieval times to the 19th century. The museum's unique exhibits tells of the life from a period of over 1000 years. Temporary exhibitions on current themes and an interactive exhibition Vintti, where you can experience history by doing yourself.
Reviewed By bobbC7658IF - London, United Kingdom
I really enjoyed this museum. From start to finish, the visit was great and I was really impressed. When you buy your tickets you get a token for a locker to store your cold weather gear in, the staff speak great English, you can refill your water bottle, then you start your visit. You can get a free audio guide, they work really well, but there's not a huge number of points to use them. Almost everything is in English, some of the interactive stuff is really good, and I learned a lot. Try and work through the exhibits in chronological order, it will help to make sense of the course of events. Overall a really good museum, not at all stuffy, and well laid out if you follow it in order. Spend around 3 hours here to see everything in detail.
7. Burgher's House
8. Sports Museum of Finland
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 9 reviews
Sport is the most inclusive phenomenon in Finnish society. The fully renewed Permanent Exhibition of the Sports Museum of Finland tells the stories of sports that helped to build our nation. The new exhibition is enlivened by versatile and unique audiovisual contents that guide the visitor from story to another and emotion to another: from the Helsinki Olympic Games to the world of e-sports, from excitement through disappointment to joy for victory. The exhibition brings to you the heroes of Finnish success sports, such as track and field athletics, Formula One racing and ice hockey, as well as Finnish people who climb mountains, jump from airplanes or negotiate rapids and rails.
9. Paivalehti Museum
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 9 reviews
The Päivälehti Museum presents the history of media, modern-day media and the future of media as well as the freedom of speech in Finland and in other countries. Our aim is to promote the ability to interpret the media and particularly, to encourage children and adolescents to read. The entrance to the museum and all its activities are free and open to the public.
