Children's and Youth's Gallery

Children's Gallery: Night Bug Art
24.10.-23.11.2025

What kinds of bugs can be seen in the garden at night? Are they huge or tiny? All the art works in the drawing competition organized by the WeGenerate project and the Children's Cultural Centre Rulla are on display at the Culture House Laikku's Corridor Gallery.

Last spring, the Night Bugs drawing competition sought art works for the lighting of the Laikunlava auditorium. The artists whose works were selected for the lighting are aged 3–11, and the theme of the works was night bugs. The works selected for the lighting will be unveiled as part of Tampere Light Week on Friday, October 24.

The idea of the drawing competition was transformation and change (for example, a caterpillar turning into a butterfly), which symbolizes how the environment and people can grow together in a new direction. One of the goals of the WeGenerate project is to increase the attractiveness, walkability, and accessibility of the Laikunlava area. The lighting is being implemented by the City of Tampere, and WhiteNight Lighting Oy has been involved in the design. The Laikunlava Night Bugs lighting will be on display until February 22, 2026.

The lighting and the Children's Gallery exhibition are part of the Rulla 20th anniversary celebration program.

Come celebrate with us!

The Children's Gallery brings a festive atmosphere to Tampere Hall's Winter Garden in December. Let’s Celebrate! exhibition is featuring moominous festivities and the strangest inhabitants of the art valley. The exhibition opens on Wednesday 3.12. and will be open at Tampere Hall until 4.1.2026.

Let’s Celebrate! exhibition presents art created by children and various art techniques such as sculpture, scratch art, graphics, and mixed media using watercolors and water-soluble chalks. The themes of the works in the exhibition are Parties at Moominhouse, Landscapes of Moominvalley, and Friends of Art Tufts. The artists are aged 5-12, and the works have been created in the cultural education program Art Arc (Taidekaari) for 1st and 6th graders and in the Art Hours at Children's Cultural Centre Rulla. In addition, you can also participate in the exhibition by writing or drawing a place where it is best to be.

The Children's Gallery's exhibition Let’s Celebrate! is part of the 80th anniversary of the Moomins and the 20th anniversary of Art Arc and Rulla. The Children's and Youth’s Gallery is an art concept developed by Children's Cultural Centre Rulla and cultural education program Art Arc, where art of children and youth is highlighted in Tampere cityscape.

The exhibition is open during Tampere Hall's opening hours.

Free entry, welcome to celebrate!

During the spring of 2024, colours, creatures and various characters appeared on the outer walls of Culture House Laikku. The art made by children can be seen at the parade place in the center of Tampere, when the artworks created in the activities of the Children's Cultural Centre Rulla and the cultural education program Taidekaari took over part of the tarpaulin covering Culture House Laikku. 

The works can be seen on Laikku's exterior walls during the facade renovation until the end of 2024.

In the spring of 2024, art made by pre-school and young students was seen in the park areas of Tampere. In art planting boxes spring flowers were accompanied by important messages written on flags, growing sculptures and shelters for little creatures and colourful animals. The works for the boxes were made by pre-school students in the Taidekaari workshops, whose themes were architecture, public art and urban nature. 

The art planting boxes have been implemented in cooperation with the cultural education program Taidekaari and the green planning of the City of Tampere, Tampere Infra and the Tampere Parish Union.

Children's and Youth's Gallery can also be seen at tram stops around Tampere in the summer! 

A total of 14 artworks can be seen at the stops from the Children's Gallery exhibitions that were on display in the Culture House Laikku's Corridor Gallery in the spring 2024, as well as from Taidekaari's Rytmireilaajat entirety.