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ADMISSION:

¤13 for adults ¤6 for children (7–17 years) and students AKATU ¤10 for pensioners, the unemployed and members of groups of over 10 people ¤30 for a family ticket (2 adults and 1–4 children) UKINKATU Free admission for children under 7 years of age

Vapriikki has facilities available for hire for private functions, conferences and seminars. A fully-equipped auditorium with 111 seats serves conference guests, while smaller meetings can be held comfortably in an elegant sauna cabinet. There are also two smaller conference rooms, for 26 and 40 people, which can be joined together if needed.

Museum restaurant Valssi provides conference meals, coffee and breakfast as well as reception catering according to the customer’s wishes. The restaurant’s summer terrace, built over running water, has a magnificent view of the industrial red-brick scenery of the Tammerkoski rapids.

The museum shop provides you with personal gifts and souvenirs that often cannot be found elsewhere. The selection always includes topical and surprising new products. Fossils delight the old and the young alike, while a soft, fuzzy animal friend is a nice reminder of a visit to the Natural History Museum. We also offer unique, handcrafted jewellery – the perfect gift for yourself or a friend.

The museum shop features an extensive selection of the museums’ own publications and topical non-fiction books.

Current themes are reflected in both the books and the rest of the selection.

RUPRIIKKI MEDIA MUSEUM The exhibition of the Rupriikki Media Museum sheds light on the long history and the present of information networks. The networked world of today owes much to inventions made as early as the 19th century, but also to the inherently human need to be in contact with other people. Many long-forgotten communication devices are brought back to life through interactive applications.

The permanent exhibition of the Hockey Hall of Fame Finland allows you to dive into our ice hockey history.

Meet the biggest stars and see the original Canada Cup trophy, World Championship trophies and other important objects from the world of ice hockey. You can also test your shooting skills or try your luck as a goalie.

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The Tampere Mineral Museum showcases the interesting world of stones and minerals. The museum houses both cut and raw precious stones and gems as well as ornamental stones, building stones and synthetic stones.

Samples of useful minerals, ores and metals are also on display along with meteorites and fossils, including dinosaur eggs.

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Unforgettable letters from Finland

HOCKEY HALL OF FAME FINLAND

ALAVERSTAANRAITTI 5, TAMPERE | TEL. +358 3 5656 6966 | VAPRIIKKI.FI CONFERENCE SERVICES TEL. +358 3 5656 5307 OPENING HOURS: TUE–SUN 10 AM–6 PM, CLOSED ON MONDAYS CLOSED ON 1 JAN, 10 APR, 1 MAY (OSTIA EXHIBITION OPEN NOON–4 PM ON 1 MAY), 19–21 JUNE, 6 DEC, 21–27 DEC OPEN 10 AM–4 PM ON 9 APR, 30 APR, 18 JUNE, 5 DEC, 31 DEC THE MUSEUM RESTAURANT IS OPEN DURING THE MUSEUM’S OPENING HOURS AND 11 AM–2 PM ON MONDAYS FOR LUNCH.

EXHIBITIONS

MINERAL MUSEUM

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PARKING A limited number of free parking spaces is available for customers in front of Vapriikki. The required special parking permit can be collected from the info desk. We recommend using the car parks of the area.

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14 February 2020 – 31 January 2021

The Postal Museum offers a wonderful experience for the entire family and invites everyone to explore.

The Messengers exhibition takes visitors on a tour of the long history of postal and communications services from the 1600´s up to today. See the quaint living quarters of a peasant farmer whose job it was to deliver mail, the stormy Sea of Åland, workrooms of famous Finnish artists and hear touching stories from the war years. Wake up the sleeping postmaster, peek into a telescope to find stamps on the world map, ride a talking mail horse, study postal routes or become engrossed in nostalgic films.

Letters conveying both big and small emotions are the stars of this exhibition. The touching letters are about love, joy, excitement, sadness, yearning, worries, hope and sympathy. Visitors can enjoy some of the letters exhibited as interpreted by the much-loved actors Seela Sella and Esko Roine.

The letters are written by both ordinary and well-known Finns. The emotional letters that visitors can listen (in Finnish) to came from Posti and the Postal Museum’s Important Letters collection. The other ones are letters written by well-known Finns from the book Unohtumattomia kirjeitä Suomesta (‘Unforgettable letters from Finland’), to be published by Like Kustannus in February 2020.

Context is provided for all of the exhibition’s nearly 50 thoughtprovoking letters, which date from the late 19th century to the 2010s.

The exhibition will be accompanied by lectures, theatrical performances, letter clubs, musical letter clubs and other events with different approaches to letters.

Vapriikki’s conference corridor will host mini-exhibitions on various subjects such as Pecos Bill cowboy cartoons, letters and letterwriting on postcards, football fever, monkey portraits and Christmas cards.

The partner for the Unforgettable letters from Finland exhibition . is

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ONE TICKET – OVER TEN EXHIBITIONS!

MONKEYS

– A primate story 12 June 2020–28 January 2021

Chosen as the Museum of the Century in 2017, Vapriikki is a diverse museum centre that provides the whole family with things to do and see. Located beside the Tammerkoski rapids, Vapriikki has around ten exhibitions open at all times, with themes ranging from history to technology and natural sciences. Vapriikki also houses the Natural History Museum of Tampere, the Mineral Museum, the Hockey Hall of Fame Finland, the Rupriikki Media Museum, the Postal Museum and the Finnish Museum of Games. Our visitors can also enjoy museum restaurant Valssi and our museum shop, which offers a good selection of books, gifts and souvenirs.

Vapriikki operates in the old Tampella factory, with its oldest parts built in the 1880s. The large exhibition hall, a hundred metres long and sixteen metres high, dates back to the 1910s–1920s. Vapriikki first opened its doors to the public in 1996, and the building’s transformation into museum use completed in 2000. The museum centre has around 14,000 m² of space, half of which is used as exhibition facilities and public space.

Touring in association with Nomad Exhibitions

FINLAYSON 200

– From factory to brand 24 April 2020– Vapriikki is celebrating the 200-year history of Finlayson with a new exhibition opening in April 2020. The ‘Finlayson 200 – From factory to brand’ exhibition traces the story of a factory founded beside the Tammerkoski rapids becoming the largest industrial company in the Nordic countries and later adapting to the post-industrial era. A wide variety of objects, especially textiles, from the Tampere museums’ extensive Finlayson collection will be on display in the exhibition, which is based on the Tampere University’s five-year ‘History of Finlayson’ project, due to be published in autumn 2020.

The exhibition focuses on Finlayson and its workers, cotton production and, above all, the company’s production.

Objects on display include the first electric train in Tampere, known as Pikku-Pässi, a miniature of the factory building Kuusvooninkinen, with 1840s workers visible through the windows, and the privilege document given to James Finlayson. A large amount of fabrics and yarns dating from the 1830s up to the present day is also displayed in the exhibition.

TAMPERE 1918 The exhibition recounts the events that took place in Tampere in spring 1918. Perspectives are offered by the fighters of both sides as well as civilians and onlookers.

The exhibition showcases a wide variety of people from children to the elderly and from workers to factory owners. On display is also a powerful selection of items gathered from the battlefields and the city streets in spring 1918, now part of the Tampere museums’ collections. The exhibition was created in cooperation with the Department of History at the University of Tampere.

TUESDAY TRAY

– A culinary journey to the 70s 8 May 2020–6 January 2021 Tuesday Tray takes visitors back to the 70s – to the world of strong and colourful food photos and straightforward recipes.

The exhibition is based on the series of food articles titled Tiistaitarjotin (‘Tuesday tray’), which was produced by photographer and regional artist Juhani Riekkola and his wife, home economics teacher Eeva Junkkari-Riekkola. The series was published weekly in Aamulehti in 1974–1978.

In the exhibition, a taste of the 70s culinary culture is provided by Riekkola’s fantastic food photos and JunkkariRiekkola’s excellent recipes and weekly menus. You will also get to explore a modern Tuesday Tray as created by Chocochili, as well as a food photoshoot by the Glorian ruoka & viini magazine.

The exhibition highlights scenes from the different stages of Tampere, a traditional theatre city. The focus is on beloved plays from Hamlet to West Side Story as well as on famous thespians and already forgotten divas.

Right from the start, the dynamic theatre culture of Tampere was being cultivated by celebrated, nationally important figures. Through their talent and tenacity, they drove the theatre arts forward through good times and bad.

Charismatic figures such as Tilda Vuori, Eino Salmelainen and Olavi Veistäjä have all left their inimitable mark on the story of the theatre city. Throughout the decades, Tampere has also had an important part to play in the provision of theatre education.

The exhibition features an extensive selection of outstanding theatre photos from the photo archives of the Tampere museums.

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MUSEUM CENTRE VAPRIIKKI

Get ready for some monkey business! On 12 June, Vapriikki opens an extensive exhibition on the closest relatives of humans.

Meet the large gorilla, the tiny mouse lemur, the aye-aye, the hamadryas baboon, the grey langur and the mandrill!

The exhibition features over 60 different primates in their own habitat. How do different monkeys move, what do they eat and how do they communicate? How much monkey is there in us?

At the exhibition, you can test your simian skills such as foraging, climbing and problem-solving. The exhibition also explores the threats faced by monkeys: habitat loss and extinction. How can we help monkeys with our own actions?

The exhibition has been produced by the National Museum of Scotland.

THE THEA TRE CITY

1 November 2019– 10 May 2020

Ostia, the port of ancient Rome, was located at the mouth of the river Tiber. From its harbour, the most important daily consumer goods, such as breadgrain – which was distributed for free – wine, salt and olive oil, were transported to Rome on riverboats along with more exotic products such as valuable slaves from the inner parts of Africa and the camels, elephants and tigers on their way to the fighting arenas.

In its heyday in the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE, Ostia was a red-brick workers’ city with around 50,000 residents, and its streets echoed with the songs of porters and the shouts of fishmongers. The port was a melting pot of cultures that attracted immigrants from all around the Mediterranean. Its residents practised dozens of different religions and cults but still lived in peaceful coexistence.

The family-friendly exhibition at Vapriikki provides an immersive depiction of the city of Ostia and the lives of its residents. Vapriikki’s partners in the exhibition are the Ostia project of the Academy of Finland, the universities of Tampere and Stockholm, the Finnish Institute in Rome and, most importantly, the Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica. Objects were also borrowed from Museo della Civiltà Romana.

FINNISH MUSEUM OF GAMES

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM

The Finnish Museum of Games is a Tampere-based museum of Finnish games and game cultures, relating the story of how the Finnish game industry developed from small projects to high-quality international productions.

The exhibition provides an overview of around a dozen periods of gaming from the 19th century to the present day. Visitors can get into the right mood in theme rooms decorated in the style of the periods and play classic arcade games in the museum’s arcade.

At this exhibition, you can use your senses like you would in nature. What does it smell like in nature? How do the seasons change the scenery? The exhibition leads visitors to marvel at the amazing diversity of nature and highlights certain locally interesting natural phenomena, species and locations. The focus of the exhibition is on the nature of Pirkanmaa in particular.

MINIATURE EXHIBITIONS IN THE STUDIO OF THE FINNISH MUSEUM OF GAMES: • The Kalevala in Games 13 December 2019–29 March 2020 • Larping through the Photographer’s Lens 1 April 2020–30 August 2020

Nature Photographs of the Year 2019 14 February–19 April 2020 The ‘Nature Photographs of the Year’ exhibition documents the occurrences, scenery and diversity of Finnish nature as well as the experiences and insights photographers gain in nature. The exhibition includes Ville Heikkinen’s ‘Bear and raven’, selected as the nature photograph of the year in 2019, as well as the winners of the different competition categories and the other photos that received prizes in the competition.