Museums and visual arts

Museums

Amuri Museum of Worker's Housing Here you can find out how people used to live in Tampere, in the beautiful wooden buildings in Amuri. Entrence fee with student card: 1€.

Moomin museum A must see in Tampere! The museum displays Tove Jansson's moomins in their original form. Entrence fee fwith student card: 4€.

Museum center Vapriikki  Vapriikki is a multi-faceted museum centre in Tampella. There's the Finnish ice hockey museum in permanent exhibitions as well as dozens of changing exhibitions. Entrence fee with student card: 3€, free on Fridays 15:00—18:00 (except on summer time).

Rupriikki  A comprehensive media museum in Väinö Linnan aukio. Find out how people progressed from creating clay wares to lasers.Entrence fee with student card 1€.

Finnish labor museom Werstas Exhibitions that follow their time display the most interesting twists and turns of social history, workers' culture, arts and political history. The museum is located in Väinö Linnan aukio, and it can be entered from Siperia as well. Free entrence.

The Finnish Labor Museum WerstasTyöväenmuseo Werstas, media museum Rupriikki and Kunsthalle TR1 are all situated in Väinö Linna -aukio at Finlayson. You can also find the Spy Museum from Finlayson. Pic: Työväenmuseo Werstas.

The spy museum The world's first museum specialising in spionage, located in Siperia. Find out how spionage changed world maps. Entrence with student card: 6€.

The Lenin Museum One of the only permanent Lenin Museums in the world is located at the Worker's Hall of Tampere, where Lenin and Stalin met for the first time in 1905. The museum collects, exhibits and researches material related to Lenin's life and activities and the history of the Soviet Union/Russia, particularly where the material relates to connections with Finland and the Finns. Entrence fee with student card: 3€.