All hospital operations will gradually end at the Kauppi hospital. Hospital services for senior citizens will move from Kauppi to the Koukkuniemi unit of the Rauhaniemi hospital during the spring. In May, a nursing home for 90 clients will open on Pohjolankatu, welcoming many of the senior citizens who were waiting for admission to service housing with around-the-clock assistance at the hospital.
Tampere City Library adopted a floating collection system on 8 February 2016. The items no longer have a designated home library, but they remain in the library where the customer returns them. Thanks to floating, items can from now on be returned to any branch of the Tampere City Library free of charge.
Tampere Biennale, a showcase for Finnish contemporary music, celebrates its 30th anniversary on 13–17 April 2016 with a multi-discipline programme combining music with visual arts, circus and performance art in a variety of ways. A dozen new works will be premiered. The festival will further feature the largest exhibition of sound art organised in Finland to date, jointly produced with the Tampere Art Museum. The programme for the 2016 Tampere Biennale was planned by the artistic director, composer Sami Klemola. The festival was established by the City of Tampere and composer Usko Meriläinen in 1986.
On 29 January, Vapriikki opened an exhibition which will take its visitors on a journey to the ice age. Come face to face with a mammoth, a saber-toothed cat, and a woolly rhinoceros! The Giants of the Ice Age is an exhibition for the whole family, taking you to a different world and to glacial sceneries from 20,000 to 30,000 years ago.