Visiting Villa Hakasalmi in summer 2020

Villa Hakasalmi opened to the public on Tuesday, 2 June. We want to make your visit to the museum as successful and safe as possible. Please find information on this page about our activities during the summer and instructions that we hope all our visitors will observe.

Welcome to the museum again!

Opening hours: Tue 11 am–7 pm, Wed–Sun 11 am–5 pm
Mannerheimintie 13 B

Exceptional opening hours and accessibility

Admission fee 12/10 €, free entry for children under 18 and with Museum Card

Our exhibition in summer 2020

State of Mind – Helsinki 1939–1945

Guided tours and events

In June and July, Helsinki City Museum and its affiliated museums will feature exhibitions as well as diverse digital content on the Museum’s website and social media channels. Until further notice, it will not be possible to arrange public events at the museum.

Our museums elsewhere

The Helsinki City Museum
The Helsinki City Museum opened its doors again on 1 June with a new exhibition called Urban Food, created in collaboration with the environmental organization Dodo that illustrates new methods of urban farming and examples of the past and future food industry.

The Urban Food exhibition on the museum’s fourth floor changes the space into lush green garden. It also presents the visitor with a question: Could cities be pioneers in the introduction of a new, more sustainable form of food production? The Nursery in the museum’s courtyard acts as an innovative urban farming centre, where museum patrons can follow growing season stages firsthand. The exhibition will also extend out from the museum in the form of satellite projects introducing young people to urban farming in the districts of Malmi and Itäkeskus.

Of the museum’s continuing exhibitions, Helsinki Bites and Time Machine are open, but the Children’s Town exhibition will remain closed for the time being.

The Helsinki City Museum has renewed its customer premises during the time that it was closed, in order to provide visitors with the best possible experience. The museum’s gift shop has transferred to a new compact space near the entrance, and the old shop premises have been converted into a spacious customer sitting area with a sauna theme. Visitors are encouraged to take a break on the public sauna benches and watch old films from Helsinki.

Helsinki City Museum
Aleksanterinkatu 16
Reopens on 1 June 2020
Opening hours: Mon–Fri 11 am–7 pm, Sat–Sun 11 am–5 pm
Always free entry
Helsinginkaupunginmuseo.fi

Tram Museum
Starting on 1 June 2020, the public can once again be transported back in history at the Tram Museum in the Töölö district of Helsinki. Every day of the week from 11 am to 5 pm, visitors can sit in an old streetcar and imagine what life was like in the city decades ago. Admission to the Tram Museum is always free.

Tram Museum
Töölönkatu 51 A
Reopens on 1 June 2020
Opening hours: Mon–Sun 11am–5pm
Always free entry
Trammuseum.fi

The city’s smaller seasonal museums, the Burgher’s House and the Worker Housing Museums, will remain closed for the time being.

Dear customer, this is how we are helping to prevent the spread of the coronavirus

Here at the Culture and Leisure Division, we value your and our employees’ health above all else. This is why we are asking you to comply with the following instructions, which we also abide by, when visiting us:

Even mild flu symptoms are a good reason to stay home
If you have any symptoms of flu, i.e. a runny nose, cough, sore throat, headache or fever, please stay home.

We wash our hands
The best way to avoid contracting the coronavirus is to wash your hands. That is why we are asking everyone to maintain good hand hygiene. Hand sanitiser and hand washing stations are available in our premises.

We maintain safe distances
The virus is highly contagious in close contact. If you see that there is a line to our cash or information desk, please wait a moment and make sure to keep a safe distance from the person in front of you.

We cough and sneeze properly
Cover your mouth and nose with a disposable tissue when you cough or sneeze. Put all used tissues in the rubbish bin immediately. If you do not have a tissue, use the top of your sleeve. Cleaning has been intensified.

We are now paying heightened attention to the cleaning of our facilities and the cleaning of different surfaces in particular. The situation is being actively monitored.

We are constantly monitoring information issued by the authorities in relation to the coronavirus outbreak and will inform our customers of any changes to coronavirus guidelines without delay.

Thank you for your cooperation!