This is our family favorite, absolutely fantastic museum! Great changing exhibitions and a…read morewonderful collection of the Finnish history. Full of information and great experience also for kids. Many fantastic features, such as time trip to Finnish heavy metal music and predicting the future president.

This museum offers so much more than its size would suggest. There are lots of sections to wander…read morethrough to discover the history of Finland from prehistoric times to now. Take your time to wander through and take it all in. From the history of the sauna to modern heavy metal, you'll find so much to see and do!

This is the most adorable art museum in Helsinki. Just the perfect size, not too much nor little…read morebut just enough for a fulfilling esthetics experience. They have wonderful changing exhibitions and a lovely basic exhibition of the family's collection who formerly lived there. Amazing atmosphere, easy to reach on foot or by tram, clise to the ocean and parks and a great South Park restaurant which offers a lovely brunch during the weekends. Always friendly and knowledgeable staff. A must see in Helsinki! And great value with the museum card!

The exhibition center WeeGee has 5 excellent museums, which all arrange free guidings app. 2 times…read morein a week (usually on weekends). Wednesday evening from 6pm to 8pm the entrance is free. No free parking, but the buses 106 and 110 bring you there from the Helsinki bus station. A ticket gives you access to all 5 museums. KAMU (Espoo City Museum) has a interesting and visual exhibition about Espoo history and interesting temporary exhibitions. The Museum of Horology is quite small in squaremeters but has hundreds of different clocks and visualizes the history of time. Ehnographical Helinä Rautavaara Museum has lots of exciting artefacts from Africa, Asia etc and small but well-made temporary exhibitions. They also arrange nice workshops and events. Both children and adults love the Toy Museum - and they have a slide for visitors! EMMA is one of biggest museums of modern art in Finland and has many temporary exhibitions. You can also visit the yellow "ufo", -60's plastic Futuro-house, but only on summer months. The cafe is ok, but a bit overpriced. The exhibition center shop is quite nice too.

Ateneum gives a very good overview about Finnish and European art in 1800s and 1900s. The place…read morehouses some of the most important oil paintings of national artists. The cost is well in par with the historic value the expos provide.

Fantastic museum in a lovely historic building. The Kallela and Klimt collections are worth this…read morevisit alone. Helpful staff, worthwhile value of time and money.

Great museum. I spent hours here and could have spent hours more. The exhibits are varied and…read moreinteresting, with a lot of interactive aspects that allow you to fully engage with the museum. My only complaint, and it is a minor one, is that their audio tour (which is free) is a little uneven; some rooms have nothing or only play music, some rooms have way too many things to scan with narrations that go on for far too long. This place is really cool, though, and if you like history/natural history/artifacts/etc. it's definitely worth a visit.

Luonnontieteellinen museo is the Natural History Museum. An hour minimum here, probably closer to…read moretwo. Lots of taxidermy animals, jarred fish, shells, skeletons, dioramas. The museum is clearly aiming for kids to enjoy as well, with a lot of the items available for touching. Most of the captions in Finnish, but their free wifi let Google Translate do some interesting translations for me. Don't miss the view from the balcony. [Review 10061 overall, 1646 of 2018.]

Helsingin Kaupunginmuseo is a free museum our tour guide suggested and enjoyed it because they had…read moreclean restrooms, nice seating, and it felt very calm and wasn't crowded. The museum would probably be three stars if they tried to charge for it as the exhibitions are a bit of a let down and don't feel all that engaging, but some of the historical furniture was interesting as was the fridge with historical "food". All in all, if you're in Helsinki and have some time to waste I'd recommend it, but generally keep your expectations low.

Super cool museum smack downtown (I think). It's in the square by the cathedral and was a great…read morespot to both wind down and get some energy out on a long sunny day, and an even better place to hunker down when it was a rainy day later in the week. Our primary purpose was the kids area as we had three kiddos that desperately needed some play and imagination time after walking the city for some time. They've got a whole section for the kiddos with lots of stuff to jump around and climb on, an old kitchen where play food lives and a small stage where they can put on puppet shows. There's another area where they house classic toys - sort of a tease to have them displayed but not let the kids play with them, but they're fun to look at! Entry was free and there appeared to be plenty of other stuff to check out throughout the place. Stroller parking is outside but easily seen from the kids area and there's a coffee shop right off the main entryway. There's really no reason to not be checking this place out, especially if the kiddos are in tow!