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.

The crafts businesses and organizations collection is a history of both Finland’s major artisan companies and organizations as well as more minor actors. The records from machine-assisted handicrafts industry focus on product design, while those from larger companies emphasize small-scale series production. Records of the history and activities of associations join those documenting the experiences of small businesses in the creative field as well as those of the evolution of education in crafts.

The collection of interior textiles in the Craft Museum of Finland is very broad in its scope, containing both traditional and modern domestic textiles from rural and urban settings alike. The oldest objects date from the 18th century, the newest from the 2000s. The collection contains materials from private individuals, museums, as well as crafts schools and organizations including Helmi Vuorelma Oy, the Friends of Finnish Handicraft, Ryijypalvelu Oy, Neovius Oy, The Kuopio Region Crafts Organization Taito Savo, and the Kiikka carpet weaving workshop.

The current collection of the museum is founded on the Old Finnish Collection, the Russian Collection and the Foreign Collection. The domestic collection, originally assembled in 1906–1945, is currently made up of more than 3000 objects. The Old Finnish Collection has a preponderance of swatches, ribbons, and cloth squares, as well as various wood weave works such as baskets, bark containers, and bark boxes. Most of the wooden objects are boxes, containers, various household objects, and miniature models.

The crafts education collection at the Craft Museum of Finland includes materials illuminating the history and practices of education in the craft hobby, school crafts taught in elementary schools, as well as vocational education in crafts organized by various providers. The field of crafts education is broad, as there have been a large number of schools providing crafts education, not to even mention associations and organizations that have engaged in courses or informational activities. 

The old foreign materials derived from the collections of the State Home Industry Museum have been complemented by more recent international items. In both cases, some of the objects are donations from travellers interested in preserving cultural heritage. Some of these contributions also include archival and photographic material that complement the objects themselves. 

In this taxonomy, domestic crafts refer to practical and utility objects needed and made in a rural culture and agrarian households and homes prior to the 1970s. 

The material and tool collections comprise data on more than 11,000 objects classified into categories. They make up about 25% of the museum’s entire collection.