State of Emergency 2.0
Our main exhibition is about Finland and Finns in the Second World War. Eight different exhibits take us through people’s experiences of war and peace. Through modern exhibition technology, we tell people’s stories and the events behind them. Explore the Winter War battle through virtual glasses, or stop by an evacuation trolley. What if it had been you?
The price of our freedom
In his work, Harri Pälviranta examines how historical narrative and individual grief meet. What is left when heroism becomes numbers in the national narrative? He has scanned all the portraits in the book The Price of Our Freedom and worked them into an installation of one hundred facial images.
The Headquarters Museum
The Headquarters Museum tells the story of warfare and leaders in an authentic setting. Marshal Mannerheim’s study and the Operational Department’s Land Forces Office can be seen in their original wartime outfits. The exhibition rooms show the military and political leadership of the 1939-1945 war, the Headquarters Communications Centre Lokki and Marshal Mannerheim as Commander-in-Chief.
The Rainbow Tour
The Rainbow Tour, built inside the exhibitions of the Muisti and the Headquarters Museum, introduces the history of gender and sexual minorities during our wars. The tour can be viewed via qr-codes – so you will need your own smartphone to view this section.