In the general competition, there was no opportunity to celebrate a victory for Finland, but a great sports weekend was crowned by the second-place

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The collections of the museum library have nearly 10 000 titles. The collection grows with new purchases made, based on the museum staff's wishes as well as with donations. With the help of donations, the museum has succeeded in supplementing the older literature in the collection. The library's collections also include both domestic and foreign magazines.

Antaudu aisteille!

Surrender to the senses!

At their best, museum objects are interfaces to the past. Different senses bring us closer to the people of the past. Our own culture determines what is beautiful and ugly, what smells good and what smells bad.

The aim of the exhibitions of the Craft Museum of Finland is to create experiences and to convey and increase knowledge of phenomena from different perspectives of craftsmanship. The museum's exhibitions present crafts as a profession, art and hobby.

In addition to its own collections, the museum presents the collections of other museums, institutions and individuals. The museum exhibits traditional crafts and contemporary products, old and new. In addition to national exhibitions, the museum regularly hosts international exhibitions.

The cold season tempts you to light a fire in the hearth and enjoy the pleasant atmosphere created by the warmth of the wood stove.

Founded on 14 December 1888 under the name of the State Museum of Crafts and initially operating under the auspices of the Finnish Association of the Arts and Crafts, the Craft Museum on Finland and the formation of its collections have been guided at different times by the values and attitudes of the era. You can read a summary of the different phases of the museum on its own page.

Almost 40,000 images are cataloged in the electronic collection management system of the Craft Museum of Finland's photo archive. The photo collection consists of original photos and prints made with different techniques. The oldest image material are glass negatives from the beginning of the 20th century, and the newest image material are image files in digital form, which have become common since the beginning in the 21st century.

The purpose of the archives maintained by the Craft Museum of Finland is to record the Finnish craft culture, craft tradition and related knowledge and skills. The collections are managed and maintained for research use and are available to all customers. The scope of the archive collections of the Craft Museum of Finland is about 150 shelf meters. The collections of the document archive are divided into two separate entities, both the museum's own and external collections.

The Virkki Handicraft Museum, owned by the Tyyne-Kerttu Virkki Foundation, transferred its collection of more than 4000 objects from Helsinki to the Craft Museum of Finland in 2010, with its photographic and sketch archives following a few years later. The Virkki Handicraft Museum, founded in 1977, was originally intended to exhibit objects collected in Aunus Karelia by Tyyne-Kerttu Virkki.

The artistic works collection at the Crafts Museum of Finland is made up of objects, archives of sketches, as well as materials related to the process of creating these artworks. There are many facets to the concept of artistic crafts. The artwork collection at the Craft Museum of Finland recognizes its scope intersects with and partially overlaps that of other museums dedicated to art and design, such as the Design Museum in Helsinki. Therefore, even when dealing with artworks, the focus of this museum is on recording and highlighting the process of crafting as much as the final product.