Top Things to do in Riihimaki
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Top 6 Things to do in Riihimaki, Finland
Discover the best top things to do in Riihimaki, Finland including Suomen Lasimuseo (The Finnish Glass Museum), The Finnish Railway Museum, Puuhamaa, Riihimaki Art Museum, Hunting Museum of Finland, Kiara Oy.
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1. Suomen Lasimuseo (The Finnish Glass Museum)
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 32 reviews
The Finnish Glass Museum has operated since 1981 in a former glassworks building converted into a museum designed By Tapio Wirkkala, academic and world-famous Finnish designer. The former glassblowing facility and the third floor of the museum are reserved for temporary Finnish and international Exhibitions of the history and present state of glass and design.
Reviewed By lmsk2014 - Helsinki, Finland
The museum gives an interesting insight on the history of glass-making in Finland - in addition to which it has a huge display of Finnish glass objects from part to present!
In addition to the basic exhibition and collections, there are often good temporary Exhibitions on Finnish glass designers as well as contemporary glass art on display.
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Museo esittelee suomalaisen lasiteollisuuden historiaa kiinnostavalla tavalla. Museon lasiesineiden kokoelma on myös vaikuttava: suomalaista lasia menneisyydestä nykypäiviin asti: niin taidelasia kuin käyttöesineitäkin. Lisäksi vaihtuvia näyttelyitä.
2. The Finnish Railway Museum
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 32 reviews
Reviewed By EijaMaija - Helsinki, Finland
Nicely set large collection of well-preserved locomotives and wagons, including the imperial train of Russian Emperor. Would have been nice to be allowed to enter some of them. My daughter who typically complains about visiting museums was difficult to get out from this one.
3. Puuhamaa
Overall Ratings
3.5 based on 23 reviews
Reviewed By SaSuFinland - Tampere, Finland
Puuhamaa is a trip to the 80's, it's a trip to the childhood because it's still the same than all those years ago. It's a place for families to spend the day with children. You are allowed to take your own snacks, drinks, food and even stakes / sausages for bbq in the park. There are small wooden bbq places where you can make a fire and prepare your food. There are many places for children to spend an active day, there are water slides and pools, swings, trampolines, adventure trails, cars and boats to drive, different kind of machines to test. I went there with my children last year and they enjoyed the day a lot. The children were then 12 and 8 years. I didn't know then that we could take our own food so I drove to a close by shop to buy us snacks. I plastic bag full of food at the same price than one of us would have had a hamburger in the diner...
So it is a nice place but remember to take swimsuit and towel, snacks and drinks and prepare to spend all day.
4. Riihimaki Art Museum
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 9 reviews
Reviewed By CaB41 - Kerava
We drove up to Riihimaki to see the current exhibition "In Helene's Garden', flowers in art, mainly from the donation collection of Tatjana and Pentti Wahajarven. Flowers may seem mundane when art is concerned, however, this was fascinating. I never knew that flowers could sneak in and play hide and seek with the spectator. I kept returning to one canvas after the other, because I had missed the flower or flowers. The least romantic artists used flowers and reconsidering your prejudices is the best result of a museum visit.
5. Hunting Museum of Finland
Overall Ratings
3.5 based on 15 reviews
The Hunting Museum of Finland is the leading information center and service institution on its field in Finland. The Mission of the museum is to collect, to study, to preserve, and to display Finnish hunting culture, past and present. The museum operations include a library and an archive serving researchers and public. Every year, the museum offers multiple Exhibitions and events for local and national audiences. The permanent exhibition of the museum presents a general overview of the ten thousand year-old history of Finnish hunting - the period during which hunting developed from a means of earning one's living to a free time activity.
Reviewed By kpter - Kennebunkport, Maine
For some people this museum might be of interest and there were a few exhibits that were OK but the biggest negative for me was the room of hunting trophies, from Africa and elsewhere around the world. I don't see the point in celebrating needless slaughter of animals.
