Iittala Glass Factory

The Iittala Glass Factory offers a unique opportunity to see the production of all kinds of glass artefacts, as talented glassblowers create Aalto vases as well as Oiva Toikka birds and common utility articles from molten glass. Guided tours are available.

The story of Iittala began already 140 years ago, in 1881, when a glass factory was founded in the village of Iittala. That is where the world-famous design history of Iittala begins. The factory is still operating, and it is where the best known Finnish glass design artefact, Alvar Aalto’s Aalto or Savoy vase, is made.

Häme Castle

Häme Castle is a medieval castle in Hämeenlinna, Finland. The Castle was most likely built during the late 13th century to serve as military base in the border zone between Sweden and Novgorod. At the end of the Middle ages the castle was governed by some of the most influential Swedish houses, the Tott, the Sture and the Posse. In addition to its status as a military fortress and home for Swedish nobility, the castle has seen use as a prison, and is currently a museum operated by the National Museum of Finland. The castle is one of the main tourist attractions of southern Finland, being the centerpiece of the city and a popular venue for events, including medieval fairs and other events.

The Finnish Glass Museum

The Finnish Glass Museum is a museum with national responsibility focusing on glass design and the history of glass. The museum has operated since 1981 in a renovated glassworks in Riihimäki. The renovation was designed by Tapio Wirkkala.

The Finnish Glass Museum presents the history of glass dating back over 4,000 years and the 300-year history of Finland’s glass industry. The collections consist mostly of Finnish household, design and art glass from the 18th-21th centuries.

The exhibits on the ground floor display the early stages of the history of glass and provide basic information on glassmaking techniques, including glassblowing, the mechanical production of glass and decorating techniques.

The upper floor of the building is devoted to the history of the Finnish glass industry and products such as bottles, polished crystal and pressed glass. The history of Finnish glass design is divided into sections on the history of serial manufacture, art glass, and glass art.

Temporary exhibitions are on show in the old glassblowing facilities.

Hyttikortteli in Riihimäki

Walk down the narrow alleys of Hyttikortteli, sense the atmosphere of the old days and marvel at beautiful gardens with hammocks and paper lanterns. You can visit small glass studios and even try glassblowing yourself at Mafka & Alakoski studio.

Riihimäen Lasi started its operations in the locality in 1910. The glass factory appreciated the well-being of many employees of the glass factory and one of its forms was the workers’ residential area built around the glass factory, Hyttikortteli. The apartments with their park-like surroundings were once a valuable addition to the glass factories and their families. In addition to the residential buildings, the factory also supported the employees’ own home construction.

When the factory closed in 1990, its idyllic residential environment has remained almost unchanged. In addition, houses suitable for the environment have been built.

Restaurant Piparkakkutalo

Restaurant Piparkakkutalo is located in a historical house. The house was built in 1906-07 as a home for merchant Anders Skogster whose department store was located next to the house. The house is designed by one of the most famous Finnish architect of that time, Selim A. Lindqvist. The house is a Jugend style building.

Restaurant Piparkakkutalo is ideal for all kinds of lunch and dinner occasions, informal or formal. There are also dining cabinets and meeting cabinets available for private occasions.

There is a cosy pub, Albertin Kellari, located in the basement of the Restaurant. The pub is fully licensed with a wide selection of beers, ciders and other drinks. Also a selection of tasty bar snacks is available. There is live music every week ranging from jazz to blues, roots etc. Also quiz and theme nights are organized regularly.

Iittala Glass Museum

Iittala Glass Museum presents the history of the Iittala glass factory. The basic exhibition displays internationally acclaimed glass art and prominent serial design products from the late 19th to the 21st century. Guided tours are available on demand.

Original Sokos Hotel Vaakuna, Hämeenlinna

Original Sokos Hotel Vaakuna is being renewed and the hotel will be closed from 1 December 2024. All the facilities of the hotel will be renovated. The hotel will reopen in the summer of 2025.

Original Sokos Hotel Vaakuna, Hämeenlinna – The happiest lake hotel in Finland!

Original Sokos Hotel Vaakuna has a strong sense of authenticity, happiness, joy and relaxation. This hotel is a “happy people’s hotel and restaurant by the lake”.
The hotel offers you the opportunity to relax by the Vanajavesi lake, cycle or walk a beach route with a fantastic view, or perhaps go canoeing to enjoy the wonderful nature. In winter, the lakeview will take your breath away. In summer, you can feel a refreshing gust of wind from the lake on our terrace, just a railing’s length from the lake.

The hotel’s unique restaurant is called Le Blason. It is French for a coat-of-arms – Vaakuna, the hotel’s name in Finnish. The restaurant is strongly committed to high-quality ingredients, honest flavours and dining together.

Welcome to the happy Sokos Hotel Vaakuna in Hämeenlinna!

Hotel Emilia

The privately owned Hotel Emilia is located in the heart of the town of Hämeenlinna. Our hotel is recently renovated and we have 41 comfortable rooms, all equipped with individually controlled air conditioning, bathroom, TV, telephone and wireless internet access. Additionally, we have some pet rooms and a room specially designed for physically disabled people.
On the top floor we have minisuite, which has its own sauna and a balcony.

All our rooms have been decorated with Marimekko fabrics to create comfortable Scandinavian atmosphere.
Our hotel also has its own night club, Emilia Klubi, which is open on weekends. In the summer time you can enjoy breakfast, coffee or fresh drinks on our terrace.

B & B Matin ja Maijan Majatalo

In our hospitable bed and breakfast, You will be accommodated in a century-old Villa with luxurious rooms right in the centrum of Hämeenlinna city.

We are here to serve our customers – You will sleep better than at home!

Textile Printing Workshop

Workshop introduces you with the world of textile printing:

– Visit the Forssa Museum Pattern Centre with our museum guide and get inspired by Finnish printed textiles
– Experience Rykkeri – the Forssa based print shop that continues local tradition of textile printing in the historic Weaving Mill Area.
– Learn and try textile printing first hand at Rykkeri!
– Manufacture a piece of textile to take home with you.

INFO
Duration: 3 hours
Price: 70€/person
Groups: 2-10 people

Get to know our partners: Rykkeri and Forssa Museum Pattern Centre!
Textile Print and Workshop Rykkeri is run by four women who share the passion for printed textiles. Rykkeri is located within the historic 1850’s Weaving Mill Area.

Textile printing in Finlayson-Forssa factories ended in 2009. This also marked the year Rykkeri was established, ensuring the continuation of Forssa textile printing tradition. Now Rykkeri is the only company in Finland to print fabrics with a hand-operated 20 m printing table. Rykkeri prints its own collection and operates as a print shop for other designers and producers.

Forssa museum is a small community of versatile museum professionals working together to create memorable experiences. We come from different backgrounds in the field of textiles and textile work, art history, cultural history, pedagogy, and archaeology. Everyone has their own way of storytelling but we all feel passionate about local history, culture and textile industry.

Forssa Museum

Forssa museum is located in the historic Spinning Mill Area which has been renovated into a vibrant cultural centre.

Our permanent exhibition the City of Colourful Cloth tells how Forssa evolved from a group of farming villages of the middle of the 19th century into a modern industrial city. It tells how Axel Wahren founded Forssa and how “cotton angels” came to work in the factory. It tells about the time when the river through the city got blue, green or red, depending on the dyeing plant. It also tells about later days when rotating machines produced kilometres of colourful cloth, and when houses were made of concrete.

The City of Forssa was established around textile industry. Swedish born Axel Wilhelm Wahren (1814-1885) founded a cotton spinning mill by the side of Kuhalankoski rapids in 1849. The mill was soon followed by a weaving mill, yarn dye works and Finlands first industrial fabric printing plant. In 1934 the Forssa Company founded by Wahren was merged with the Finlayson textile group from Tampere. From this merge a company named Finlayson-Forssa was born. Textile production in Forssa ended in 2009. The heritage of the textile factory is now stored in Forssa museum’s textile archive, which contains fabric samples, sketches and artifacts originating from between the 1800’s and 2000’s.

Forssa Museum Pattern Centre

Pattern Centre is the home of the Forssa museum’s collection of printed textiles. The space is divided into an exhibition space, museum shop, archive, and research facilities. The permanent exhibition opened its doors at the end of April 2022.

The exhibition includes information, illustrations, and photographs of designers and their time as well as printed textiles, made into textile installations. These installations have been created to showcase different styles and decades of Finnish printed textile design. You can learn about color layering, color theory, and textile printing in our exhibition that invites you to touch, feel and try for yourself!

Background in Finnish Textile History:
The new exhibition tells the story of Finnish textile printing, an industry that began in Forssa in the 1860s. Forssa maintained its status as a focal place of printmaking know-how and design, through the age of industrial textile printing in Finland, and continued onwards from the 1930s as an important part of Finlayson Co.

From the year 1951, the Forssa design studio hosted textile designers and artists who created patterns of different colors and designs: stripes, polka dots, florals, abstracts, and everything in between, always getting inspired by the movements of art, popular culture, architecture, and design of their time. These printed fabrics dressed our nation, decorated our homes, and spread across the border to international markets.

Opening hours for the summer season.
Mon: closed
Tue-Fri: 10-16
Sat-Sun: 12-16

Opening hours outside the summer season (September ->)
Mon: closed
Tue-Fri: 10-16
Sat-Sun: open upon request, please contact us in advance.

Guided tours are available.

Grand Hotel Tammer

In Radisson Blu Grand Hotel Tammer, you can feel the unique Grand Hotel feeling in a traditional and preserved cultural enviroment.

Built in 1929, Grand Hotel Tammer is the third oldest hotel in Finland. Designed by the city architect Bertel Strömmer, the building is a great example of Nordic Classicism. From the very beginning, it was built to house a hotel of international standards. Rest well on premium bedding surrounded by modern amenities and city views. In the 87 rooms and corridors, restored with honor, you can feel the spirit of history. All our rooms are non-smoking.

World’s Only Moomin Museum

The Moomin Museum is an experiential art museum for Moomin fans and art lovers of all ages. Visit us and relive the adventures of the beloved Moomin family in our permanent exhibition of Tove Jansson’s original illustrations. Experience the magic of Moominvalley by stepping inside the Hobgoblin’s Hat, marvel at our beautifully crafted tableaux, and be amazed by our sparkling comet soaring across the sky! There’s always something new to see in our Observatory, which features a diverse program of regularly changing exhibitions.

Tampere Hall

Tampere Hall, the congress and cultural centre giant of the Nordic countries, is a renowned house of experiences and the venue for nearly a thousand different events, concerts, meetings, and international conferences each year. Tampere Hall is located in the city centre of Tampere, just around the corner from the railway station.

Guests can browse Tampere Hall’s concerts and club gigs, relax at the street-level restaurant and café Tuhto, enjoy art and pick souvenirs from Tampere Hall Shop or visit the world’s only Moomin Museum. Getting around could not be easier when staying at the Courtyard by Marriott hotel, connected to Tampere Hall by a passageway.

Even though Tampere Hall is situated in the vibrant city centre, nature is never far away. The large windows let in the beautiful Duck Park (Sorsapuisto) that surrounds the building. The diverse and experience-filled offering of Tampere Hall allows it to serve a wide-ranging audience and ensures that everyone finds in it something to spice up their daily routines.

Restaurant Tuhto

Tuhto is a cosy meeting place at Tampere Hall. You can pop in for coffee while visiting Moomin Museum, enjoy our daily lunch or have a nice and relaxed dinner. On a sunny day our terrace in the charming Sorsapuisto park is a great place to gather up with friends and enjoy the Finnish summer days.

In our kitchen, the ingredients take centre stage, with a real commitment to locally sourced and organic produce. We create no-nonsense dishes, served to you in the laidback, home-like atmosphere of our dining room.

Tampere Sauna Tour

Tampere region has an exceptional sauna culture with over 30 public saunas heating up everyday. The range varies from traditional smoke saunas to modern bathing centres. Tampere radiates authenticity and warmth through its saunas. 

The Saunakonkeli steam tour takes you directly into the heart of Tampere’s public saunas. Imagine standing at the gates of a sauna paradise. At your reach are the empowering atmosphere of lively public saunas and hot steam that will unwind you from everyday life. 

Your guides Matti and Juha are well-known finnish sauna experts and Tampere locals with the right insight for your public steam tour. 

Whether it is a sauna by a lake, the oldest public sauna in Finland, a smoke sauna or a close-knit ice-swimmer community sauna, we will live together through the etiquette and history of the steam palace. We can visit as many saunas as you wish and help you find the sweet spot from the steam rooms according to your löyly wishes. If you want to visit more saunas than one, please let us know at the time of booking. Learn the hidden knowledge about the saunas in the sauna capital.

Grand Hotel Tammer

In Radisson Blu Grand Hotel Tammer, you can feel the unique Grand Hotel feeling in a traditional and preserved cultural enviroment.

Built in 1929, Grand Hotel Tammer is the third oldest hotel in Finland. Designed by the city architect Bertel Strömmer, the building is a great example of Nordic Classicism. From the very beginning, it was built to house a hotel of international standards. Rest well on premium bedding surrounded by modern amenities and city views. In the 87 rooms and corridors, restored with honor, you can feel the spirit of history. All our rooms are non-smoking.

Serlachius in Tampere Region

Serlachius takes you away from the crowded places to a harmonious atmosphere of art, design and nature! You will find national art treasures, contemporary exhibitions, internationally awarded architecture, exciting history and excellent cuisine in the midst of beautiful Finnish nature. Add some soft activities in your day and borrow a bike or Nordic walking poles and take a turn in the Art Town Mänttä. Or perhaps you would like to have a picnic in the Sculpture Park and row a boat on the lake close by? Your choice! Welcome to the Finnish top sight – far out art with a historic heart!

Serlachius Art Sauna — Reservation for a Public Sauna Session

The awarded Serlachius Art Sauna invites you to enjoy and relax! Beautiful lakeside milieu, amazing architecture and pampering experience at the one-of-a-kind Art Sauna await! You can also dip in the lake if you dare – even in the winter!

The public sauna is open every Tuesday. On other days you can book a private Art Sauna experience. Ask more from our sales service. You are warmly welcome!

Visit the UNESCO World Heritage Site Petäjävesi Old Church

Petäjävesi Old Church tells stories of Finnish peoples’ everyday lives, during four different centuries. Built by central Finland’s land-owning peasants in 1763–65, the Old Church features superb carving and has witnessed some of the most profound feelings in life. The mysterious Petäjävesi Old Church was listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1994, as a unique example of traditional Nordic wooden church architecture and log construction. The appearance of the church has remained nearly un-changed.

Museum Shop – Craft Museum of Finland

Support handicraft – step into the Museum Shop

The Museum Shop offers products from Finnish craftsmen throughout Finland and literature in the field. The museum shop’s handmade selection follows the seasons. At present, there are products for about one hundred Finnish craftsmen or designers.

The museum store has become famous in Jyväskylä as a gift shop for Finnish handmade products. The museum shop is easy to pop in for shopping on the pedestrian street.
For exhibition visitors, the museum shop offers the opportunity to have a memorable visit.

Welcome to look and enjoy! There is free access to the street level of the museum, which includes the Museum Shop.

Mänttä Club

Mänttä Club provides accommodation, a custom restaurant as well as meeting and catering services. Stylish, uniquely furnished rooms each include a story – from basic accommodation to luxury rooms. Each room is unique. Some rooms can accommodate 1-2 extra beds, making them ideal for family use. Mänttä Club provides accommodation for 38 persons. In Mänttä Club, there are also facilities in many sizes for meetings and festivities.

Mänttä Club was built in 1920 and was designed by Valter and Ivar Thomén. The purpose was to use the Club as a facility for festivities for G.A. Serlachius Inc. The valuable history and the present day meet at Mänttä Club with a sense of style known around the world. Also our kitchen cherishes tradition with a cosmopolitan dedication, and we take into consideration the secrets of classical cuisine with a modern touch.

If you wish, we will provide the whole package with all additional activities.

Hotel Keurusselkä

Welcome to Hotel Keurusselkä, the center of entertainment, activities, wellness and events. Sleep well surrounded by lake view, enjoy the activities in the nature and relaxin the moment in our spa. Restaurant and spa are located in the main floor. In total, the area offers accommodation in hotels for more than 200 people and in apartments for 180 people. Comfort, great natural surroundings and good service come as standard.