Anja-Tuulikki Huovinen

Anja-Tuulikki Huovinen is General Secretary of the Finnish Museums Association. She has studied Art History, Ethnology and Anthropology, Archaeology, Information Sciences and Sosiology at Helsinki University (MA 1974).

She is a member of several international professional bodies : ICOM, International Council of Museums (ICOFOM and INTERCOM), NEMO – Network of European Museum Organisations (executive member since 1998, chair 2002-2005), Finnish-Norwegian Culture Institut, Finnish-Danish Cultural Foundation, Finnish Benelux Institute.

On national basis a member of many steering and developing groups on museums mostly under the Ministry of Education and board member of several museums.

Petri Tuomi-Nikula

Petri Tuomi-Nikula is the Director General at the Department for Communication and Culture, Ministry for Foreign Affairs. He has studied at Helsinki University (Master of Political Science 1983) and as a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, School of Journalism, New York.

He has worked in several international positions in the field of Communications and Culture e.g. at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, at the Secretariat of the Finnish EU-Presidency, and at the Finnish commercial television station MTV.

Tuomi-Nikula is the Chairman of the Board of the Finnish Museums Association, a founding member of the Pro Opera Association, a Member of the Executive Committee of Savonlinna Opera Festival and a Board Member in the Friends of Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art.

Janne Vilkuna
Keynote Speaker

Professor Janne Vilkuna has studied at Helsinki and Jyväskylä universities archaeology/prehistory, ethnology, Finnish history and art history. To professorship of museology Vilkuna was nominated 1999.

Vilkuna is beside his professorship also since 1993 the director of the Jyväskylä university museum. He has published about 460 scientific and popular articles with subjects of museology, prehistory, history and ethnology.

Vilkuna has been and is a member of several museum boards and state committees; e.g. he is since 2006 nominated by the Ministry of Education the chairman of the Advisory Board of Craft Museum of Finland. He became a member of the editorial board (and the Finnish editor) of Nordic Museology in 1993 and he is since 2003 a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.

Art Museum of Estonia – Kadriorg Art Museum

The Kadriorg palace and park were founded by the Russian tsar Peter I. The well-preserved great hall is one of the best examples of Baroque architecture not only in Estonia but also in the whole Northern Europe. The collection contains over more than 900 Western European and Russian paintings from 16th to 20th centuries, about 3,500 prints, over 3,000 sculptures and gems, and about 1,600 decorative arts objects (historic furniture, porcelain, glass etc.). Besides exhibitions, concerts, theatre performances and receptions, as well as lectures, tours and introductions of art works take place in the museum.

• Kadriorg Art Museum

Art Museum of Estonia – Niguliste Museum

The St. Nicholas' Church, consecrated to merchants’ and seamen’s patron St Nicholas, is architectually one of the most integral and harmonious medieval churches in Estonia. During the Soviet air-raid on March 9, 1944 the St. Nicholas' Church and the buildings surrounding it were severely damaged. The most precious art treasures survived merely thanks to their timely evacuation from the church. Hence, besides Baroque epitaphs and other masterworks of carving, a remarkable collection of Renaissance and Baroque chandeliers, as well as the 14-17th century tombstones covering the floor of the Chapel of St Matthew (later St Anthony), but also such invaluable rarities from the 15–16th centuries as the high altar, the initial fragment of the famous painting Danse Macabre and the altar of St Anthony survived. The ruined church was restored and inaugurated in 1984 as a museum-concert hall, where the collection of medieval art of the Art Museum of Estonia is exposed, and also organ and choir music concerts can be enjoyed regularly.

• Niguliste Museum

Estonian Open Air Museum

Estonian Open Air Museum that introduces Estonian peasant architecture is like a small village on the lands of the former Rocca al Mare summer mansion. Paths in the 79 ha forest park walk the guest in space and time – from the 18th century to the 20th century, from the level Läänemaa to the islands with high stone walls, from the coastal North-Estonia uphill to the South-Estonian farms. You can rest and dine at Kolu Inn and find peace and tranquillity in the 300 years old Sutlepa Chapel. Or you may attend a lesson at the Children’s Museum at the Kuie Village School.

• Estonian Open Air Museum

Tallinn City Museum – the main building

Tallinn City Museum is located in a medieval merchant’s dwelling in the heart of Old Town. History of the building dates back to the 14th century, when owned by famous citizen – aldermen and tradesmen. Mantel chimney, salt cellar with a well and a fireplace, a portal dating back to the 16th century and window framing have preserved. The museum has been located in the building since 1965.

In 2001 a new permanent exposition: The Town That Never Gets Ready was opened. The modernly designed attractive exhibition reflects the history of Tallinn from the very beginning until the Singing Revolution.

• Tallinn City Museum

Tallinn City Museum – Miia-Milla-Manda

Children's Museum with hands-on exhibits.

• Miia-Milla-Manda

Tallinn City Museum – canon tower Kiek in de Kök

The cannon tower Kiek in de Kök is the mightiest defence tower in the Baltic countries. It was constructed in its original form in 1473 – 1483. The tower is located next to Toompea, it has undergone several reconstructions in the course of centuries – its present height reaches 48.8 meters. The 6-storey tower was opened as a museum in 1958.

The exposition introduces historical landmarks related to the founding and fortification of Tallinn and the most important military events in the history of the town. A marvellous view of the town opens from the windows of the tower.

• Kiek in de Kök

Tallinn City Museum – Bastion tunnels

From the Kiek in de Kök tower you have access to the earthen fortification system built in the 17th century – the underground tunnels of the Ingerian and Swedish bastions. A guided tour takes visitors to an adventurous time travel into the mysterious world of underground tunnels. The interactive exposition gives an overview of the building story of bastions, the historic figures related to them, the bomb shelters that they housed, and takes the visitor to an imaginary trip to the future.

• Bastion tunnels

Pretour to the National Park Seitseminen

A day trip to the National Park Seitseminen introduces Finnish forest and its traditions and mystical fairytales. A guided trip will enlighten the life of the first Finns in the large, wild forest, the hard work of the lumberjacks and first farmers. The tour takes you on foot into the shadow of the trees, in an old forest with grey, dead pine trees, magnificent big spruces or sweet birches with white stems. During the visit we will also visit an old farm house and the information centre of the National Park. The total length of the hike will be ca. 6 kilometres.

Departure from Vanha Kirkko, (Old Church at Central Square) at 10.00, total duration ca. 6,5 hours.

Price 65 €/person incl. bus transportation, a guided tour in Seitseminen, coffee and a soup lunch.

Minimum number of participants required 20.

• National Park Seitseminen

Welcome Reception at the Finnish Labour Museum Werstas and Gallery TR1 (Finlayson factory area) at 18-21

The Finnish Labour Museum Werstas is located in the Finlayson area in the heart of Tampere. The museum has an exhibition area of some 2,000 square metres, which makes Werstas the second biggest museum centre in Tampere. At Werstas, you can visit the Textile Industry Museum, the Steam Engine Museum as well as the Labour Museum's brand new permanent exhibition "Our City" and changing exhibition "DDR".

Werstas has been nominated as a national special museum of social history and working life. A national perspective is key to all the museum's operations. The museum actively co-operates with labour heritage organisations around the world and is a member of IALHI and Worklab, among others.

Labour museum's collection consists of 70.000 objects and 350.000 photographs. This collection is interesting because it represents the history of Finnish civil society and everyday experiences.

The museum was founded in 1993 and has been based at the current premises since 2001. The museum is maintained by a designated association with member organisations representing a wide range of Finnish civil society partners: the trade union movement, the co-operative movement, the labour movement and the field of labour heritage.

Incl. in the delegate fee

• Finnish Labour Museum Werstas

Sightseeing tour of Tampere at 16.00-18.00

A traditional sightseeing tour by bus provides a comprehensive overview of all the most important sights in Tampere city centre with visits to the Moominvalley (Moomin Museum), Amuri Museum of Workers' Housing and Pispala area.

Moominvalley

The Tampere Art Museum Moominvalley is a museum devoted to original art 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 translated into nearly 40 languages. The books fascinate adults and children alike. The original Moomin illustrations by Tove Jansson are an essential part of the atmosphere of the museum, and the three-dimensional tableaux built by Tuulikki Pietilä add to our own picture of the goings-on in the Moomin stories. The gem of the collection is a blue five-storey Moomin House that is as exceptional as its residents - and its builders, Tuulikki Pietilä, Pentti Eistola and Tove Jansson.

In the Moominvalley you will see original Moomin illustrations by Tove Jansson in two exhibitions, the permanent exhibition and the changing exhibition with a title Dancing Moominvalley.

Moominvalley is located in the Tampere city library Metso. Designed by architects Reima and Raili Pietilä, the Metso (wood grouse) building is one of the most important cultural landmarks of Tampere.

• Moominvalley

Amuri Museum of Workers' Housing

Museum of ordinary working life and Tampere's history

Where and how did people live in the old days? Amuri Museum of Workers´ Housing narrates the facts in a fascinating way, opens doors to dwellings depicting different times, acquaints guests to workers' destinies and showcases living through nine decades. Industry flourishing on the banks of the Tammerkoski rapids and a growing need of living space gave an impulse to the birth of the wooden housing district of Amuri.

The museum has five houses and four outbuildings on their original places.

Guests are taken on a travel through time by offering them views on different homes and narrating them life stories of their inhabitants. Dwellings date from 1880s to 1970s, from the time of Russia's rule in Finland to the times of president Kekkonen.

Shared kitchen, the heart of the household, was surrounded by several rooms in each of which lived a family, usually with many children. Families also had subtenants living with them. The stove of the typical shared kitchen had four hearths and the kitchen was filled with sounds of boiling water when busy cooks hustled and bustled around the stove.

The museum also showcases a cobbler's shop from 1906, a cooperative store from the 1930s and a haberdashery from the 1940s. And a notification to sauna lovers: It is still possible to experiece the gentle steams of sauna in the fashion of early 20th century!

Welcome to a travel through time in Amuri!

• Amuri Museum of Workers' Housing

Pispala

Pispala area is located on the northern slope of Pispalanharju, the highest esker in Finland. Together with Pyynikki, Pispala is widely considered the most beautiful district of Tampere.

Pispala was a free area to be built upon by the working class people working in Tampere factories. It was joined to Tampere in the late 1920s. Currently, it is a popular residential area among artists and together with neighbouring Pyynikki it forms an important historical area of Tampere.

Starting from Vanha Kirkko, (Old Church at Central Square) at 16.00, total duration approx. 2 hours.

Price 10€/person incl. bus transportation, a guide in the bus, guided tours in the museum and Pispala.

Minimum number of participants 20.

Tampere City Reception at the Old City Hall at 19.30-21.00

The Old City Hall is located at the Central Square. It was designed by Georg Schreck and built in 1890.

Incl. in the delegate fee

Guided Walking Tour to Tammerkoski Industrial Heritage Scenery

The history of Tampere is tightly linked with the history of factories and mills, of which Finlayson, Tampella and Frenckell belong to the most important ones. All were once powered by the Tammerkoski Rapids, which also gave birth to the whole city. Today, the rapids together with old red-brick factory buildings make one of Finland's national heritage landscapes.

Starting from Vanha Kirkko, (Old Church at Central Square) at 15.00, total duration approx. 1,5 hours.

Price 10 €/person

Minimum number of participants 20.

Reception at Planetarium at 18.00-20.00

Buses leave from Vanha Kirkko, (Old Church at Central Square) at ca. 17.30, please, check the timetable at the Congress information desk.

Theme: The cultural significance of museums as a source of wellbeing and success

Two lectures held by representatives of Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and The Finnish Museums Association.

After reception the program continues by visiting the The Sara Hildén Art Museum nearby the Planetarium and ends to the Congress Dinner at Restaurant Näsinneula.

Planetarium has been operating in the Näsinneula observation tower within Särkänniemi amusement park since 1969. The Planetarium was thoroughly restored in 1997 and is equipped with the latest multimedia techniques.

The Sara Hildén Art Museum, which is the permanent home of the collection of modern art, Finnish and foreign, owned by the Sara Hildén Foundation, is maintained by the City of Tampere. Sara Hildén Foundation Collection currently amounts to some 4500 works. It is thus a comprehensive collection which presents a broad cross section of the development in modern art over the last forty years.

The art museum also arranges changing exhibitions. These include the presentation of Finnish contemporary art and notably prestigious overviews of international modernism. The Sara Hildén Foundation continues to be responsible for expanding the collection, and places its acquisitions in the art museum.

The activities of the art museum also focus on research work contributing to the arranging of exhibitions, on publications and on educational missions in the field of modern art aimed at children and young people.

• The Sara Hildén Art Museum

Congress Dinner at Restaurant Näsinneula at 20.00-23.30

(Buses back to city centre leave at ca. 23.30.)

Restaurant Näsinneula

The rotating Näsinneula restaurant is the highest place in Finland to dine. Whilst dining, you have spectacular views before your eyes. The unique panorama and delicious dishes make your visit a memorable one.

Reception at Planetarium, visit to the Sara Hildén Art Museum and Congress Dinner are included in the delegation fee.

Special Museum Tour – the Automobile and road Museum Mobilia and the Police Museum at 13.30-17.15

Nostalgic tour to Mobilia by vintage bus

Mobilia welcomes you on a tour to the national automobile and road museum of Finland. After a nostalgic vintage bus ride the guide will introduce you into the maintenance and preservation of Mobilia’s collections. At the same you will get acquainted also with Mobilia Classics Gallery and Rally Hall of Fame. Later you will have a possibility to visit Mobilia’s new theme-based exhibition Movie Cars, which tells a story about the role of the cars in American and Finnish movies.

On the 22nd of May 2010 there is a spare parts market for car enthusiasts in Mobilia. Bits and pieces of used car parts can be found at reasonable price. The more traditional souvenirs you will find in Mobilia Museum Shop.

Mobilia in figures:

• situated 20 km (13 miles) from Tampere city centre
• exhibition area 3000 m2, collection storeroom area 9000 m2
• visitors: 34 000 persons/year
• employees: 20 persons

• Mobilia

National Police Museum

A centre for information on the history of the Finnish police service

The purpose of the National Police Museum is to collect, preserve, research and exhibit objects and other material on the traditions and history of the Finnish police service.

The Museum is designed to serve not only the general public but also the police service and researchers in the field.

The National Police Museum will open to the public in purpose-built premises at Hervanta, Tampere in early 2008.

The Museum will form part of the new police training, development and research organization created when the National Police School of Finland merges with the Police College of Finland.

Starting from Vanha Kirkko, (Old Church at Central Square) at 11.00 and the bus returns to Tampere at 16.00.

Price 15 €/person incl. transportation, program and coffee with coffee bread.

Minimum number of participants required is 10.

Exploring the Tampere museums at 13.30-18.30

Museums open and representatives of the museums available at 13.30-17.00,

free entrance.

Please, see separate programme at the Congress website/Information desk.

TR1 Exhibition Centre

The historic Finlayson industrial estate in the heart of Tampere offers a unique example of 19th century industrialism. This cotton mill site grew into a town within a town, with its own church, school and hospital. It is home to the beautiful, white TR1 factory building, an exemplary factory upon its construction in 1837. Since its restoration was completed in 2005, the Rupriikki Media Museum has operated on its ground floor. At the same time, the TR1 Exhibition Centre was opened.

TR1 is an exhibition centre of the visual arts in Tampere. Its exhibition profile focuses on the display of visual and media art, design, applied art and photography. The exhibitions change at a rapid pace and are mainly staged by the Tampere Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Modus association, the Nykyaika Photographic Centre and the Rupriikki Media Museum. This represents a groundbreaking type of partnership between city organisations and private exhibitors in Finland.

On display at TR1 from 8– 0 May is Tampere Art Factory consisting of the diploma projects of the students completing the Fine Arts Degree Programme of the Tampere University of Applied Sciences. The school is located in the Finlayson area, only a stone’s throw from the exhibition facilities. Tampere Art Factory provides a fine a opportunity to get a glimpse of art by young local artists in an environment rich in atmosphere.

Rupriikki Media Museum

presents the history of mass communication, from the development of writing to the latest technological achievements. The museum gives visitors an opportunity to feel the atmosphere of a 1920s newspaper editing office, become acquainted with the Speaking Clock, and look into a mutoscope. Using the Rupriikki computer screens, the visitor can edit a front page and watch archived programmes. Medium-specific departments and changing exhibitions take the visitor on a fascinating journey through the world of communications.

In May 2010, the Rupriikki Media Museum displays ’Exposing photos’, an exhibition on paparazzi photography. It showcases the juiciest dramas of Finnish photo journalism and the best moments of Finnish celebrities.

Rupriikki Media Museum is located in the historic Finlayson factory area in the heart of Tampere. In the same building, TR1, boasts a rich and varied exhibition calendar and offers views of visual and media arts, design, handicrafts, and photographic art.

Rupriikki Media Museum and Art Gallery TR1 were proud to have been nominated by the European Museum Forum for the EMYA in 2007.

• TR1
• Rupriikki

Spy Museum

A single spy or technical device used in espionage could have influenced on the formation of the world even more than governments of history. Because of Finland's geo-political position between east and west our country has always been very active area of international espionage. For these reasons the first spy museum of the world was opened for public in Tampere in 1998. It provides a good overview of old and new spy technology and top agents from all over the world.

• Spy Museum

The Lenin museum

The Lenin museum was opened on 20 January 1946 in the workers' hall in Tampere. The museum was founded by The Finnish-Soviet Friendship Society, which still maintains the museum, but is renamed The Finnish-Russian Friendship Society. The museum is situated in the hall where the historical Tampere conferences were held during the first revolution in Russia in December 1905 and November 1906. Vladimir Iljitsh Lenin participated in both conferences. Lenin and Stalin met each other for the first time here in 1905 conference.

The museum consists of two halls. The items in the first hall tell us about Lenin's achievements during his life and the items in the second hall tell about Lenin's relations toward Finland.

Vladimir Iljitsh Lenin, the leader of the October Revolution and the founder of the world's first and now gone socialist state, lived in Finland for nearly two years. During the first revolution in Russia from November 1905 till December 1907 Lenin lived mainly in Finland. Just before the October revolution in 1917 Lenin lived underground in Finland for about two months persecuted by the provisional government.

• Lenin Museum

Tampere Art Museum

The Tampere Art Museum was established in 1931. It was founded by the Tampere Art Society which had already been collecting art and arranging art exhibitions in Tampere since the beginning of the last century.

The museum is renowned for its active exhibition policy, especially exhibitions presenting ancient cultures, wide-ranging publication activities, the Young Artist of the Year event and Moominvalley, which can be found in the city main library "Metso". The Tampere Art Museum presents important themes from art history and phenomena of contemporary art in both its Finnish and international exhibitions. The museum's collections consist mainly of national art from the early 19th century onwards.

The Young Artist of the Year 2010 – Anni Leppälä exhibition is at the Tampere Art Museum from 17 April to 30 May 2010.

Anni Leppälä is the 26th Young Artist of the Year. She lives and works in Helsinki. Leppälä (b. 1981 in Helsinki) is studying in the photography program, MA, of the University of Art and Design Helsinki. She held her first private exhibition in 2004 and has participated in collective exhibitions from 2001.

• Tampere Art Museum

Emil Aaltonen museum

In June 2004 Pyynikinlinna became the home of the Emil Aaltonen museum of industry and art.

Visitors to the museum will encounter Aaltonen as a private citizen and businessman but also as an important figure in Finland’s national cultural and scientific development.

Pyynikinlinna was the long-time home of Emil Aaltonen (1869-1949), pioneer of Finnish shoe manufacture. 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 garden look out over the pine trees of Pyynikki’s park to lake-Pyhäjärvi as well as towards the city centre, only a kilometre away.

Designed by the architect Jarl Eklund, Pyynikinlinna was completed in 1924. It is a two-storey building, painted white over a plastered brick construction and features many classical details. It demonstrates an admiration for ancient Greek and for Italian architecture, and shows its adaptation into twentieth-century Nordic classicism.

The permanent collection, located on the main floor, represents Aaltonen’s life and displays some of his art collection. The exhibited artists are masters of older Finnish painting, Alexander Lauréus, Werner Holmberg, Albert Edelfelt, Fanny Churberg, von Wright-veljekset, Pekka Halonen.

• Emil Aaltonen museum

Hiekka Art Museum

The Hiekka Art Museum has been named after its founder Kustaa Hiekka (1855-1937), a highly esteemed goldsmith in the Finnish jewellery industry.

The building was designed by architect Oiva Viljanen in the Classical style, and it was completed in 1928. The Kustaa Hiekka Foundation was established in 1931 to maintain the Hiekka Art Museum, which opened its doors to the public during the same year.

Kustaa Hiekka had a thriving business in Tampere. He understood that industrialization would transform the entire jewellery trade, so he decided to expand his business and founded the Finnish Goldsmiths' Company (Suomen Kultasepät Oy) in collaboration with two other jewellers. Kustaa Hiekka can thus be regarded as the founder of the Finnish precious metals industry. Hiekka was also active in other spheres of life: he was, among others, a founder of the Häme Museum and a member of the Tampere City Council for 32 years.

Kustaa Hiekka was an avid collector of art. His interest in art extended beyond the traditional forms of visual art, painting and sculpture, and thus, he also collected antique furniture, coins, silver, tin and glass objects as well as articles of ethnographic value.

The collection mainly consists of Finnish art covering almost an entire century. The Biedermeyer period is represented by the works of Ferdinand von Wright, and the era of romantic landscapes by paintings of Berndt Lindholm and Hjalmar Munsterhjelm. The works of Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Albert Edelfelt, Eero Järnefelt, Pekka Halonen and Hugo Simberg, on the other hand, represent the so-called golden period of Finnish art. A more internationalist viewpoint of the early 20th century is reflected in the works of Magnus Enckell, Yrjö Ollila, Mikko Oinonen, Tyko Sallinen and Ilmari Aalto, all of whom used a brighter palette. Local flavor is added to the collection by works of various artists from Tampere, such as Gabriel Engberg, Kaarlo Vuori, Lennu Juvela, Tauno Hämeranta and Kauko Salmi. In the museum you can see also gold products, furniture from the times of Kustaa Hiekka and his apprentice and master pieces.

• Hiekka Art Museum

A Tour to Mänttä: The Serlachius museums Gustaf and Gösta at 9.00-16.00

Welcome to the Serlachius museums!

When visiting Gustaf and Gösta, the two Serlachius Museums in Mantta, Finland, you´ll have twice as much to see. Open our doors and experience art, the past, the present - and unashamed nostalgia!

Gösta presents you his constantly growing private art collection, one of the most impressive in Northern Europe. Its most valuable component consists of classics of the Finnish Golden Age of painting, alongside European masterpieces – with unexpected, recently acquired novelties.

At Gösta´s exhibitions you will get to know his art collection. The exhibitions in the old mansion milieu have the air of Gösta´s prestigious taste and the inexplicable magic of fine arts.

Gustaf's moving exhibitions introduce Finland´s history as told through the voices of local people. Take a peek at the world of Serlachius. Hear Lyyli the Sorter sing, and see if you too could have what it takes to run a factory. Gustaf feels that museums should be more than a few dusty mammoths in a glass cabinet.

Gustaf´s exhibitions offer a touching portrayal of times past and present. A stroll through the exhibition´s staged, imaginary settings will bring you across new, exciting sights, sounds and games, and an eventful history that will open before your eyes. History comes to life as you hear people share their own fascinating life stories.

Serlachius Museums are owned by Gösta Serlachius Fine Arts Foundation, a community whose roots are in the Serlachius family´s keen interest in fine arts and culture.

• The Serlachius museums Gustaf and Gösta

Starting from Vanha Kirkko, (Old Church at Central Square) at 09.00 and the bus returns to Tampere at 16.00.

Price 45 €/person incl. a guided tour in both the museums, bus transportation, coffee/tea and pastry at Kallenautio hostelry and lunch at Autereen tupa (Autere Cabin).

Minimum number of participants required 20.

EMYA Awards Ceremony at 19.00-20.00 and Gala Dinner at 20.30-24.00 at Museum Centre Vapriikki

Located on the banks of the Tammerkoski rapids, Vapriikki is a museum centre that offers things to see and do for the whole family. We put up about a dozen exhibitions each year with varied themes including history, technology and natural sciences. Vapriikki is also home to The Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame, The Shoe Museum, and The Doll Museum. Visitors are served by the museum restaurant Valssi and the museum shop which sells a wide selection of literature and gifts.

Museum Centre Vapriikki is housed in what used to be the engineering works of Tampella. Its oldest parts were built in the 1880s, while the largest exhibition hall, a hundred metres long and sixteen metres high, dates back to the 1910s and 1920s. Vapriikki opened its doors to the public in 1996 and the building was completed as a museum in 2000. The building’s total area is approximately 13,000 m2, half of which comprises exhibition facilities and premises open for the public.

• Museum Centre Vapriikki

Incl. in the delegate fee.