1.9.2012
Midnight Run

Midnight Run is among the biggest and most entertaining sports events in the Nordic countries.

11.9.2012
Welcome to the Botanic Museum!

To mark the 200th anniversary year, the Botanic Museum will be opening its doors to the general public

18.9.2012
Welcome to the Botanic Museum!

To mark the 200th anniversary year, the Botanic Museum will be opening its doors to the general public

22.9.2012 23.9.2012
The Era of Autonomy Festival – Car-Free Day

The Era of Autonomy Festival takes the city back to the 19th century.

8.9.2012 26.9.2012
Big Move

The play ponders the ways in which the overlap of cultural behaviour patterns puts strain on family life in our multicultural society.

26.9.2012 4.11.2012
Autumn at Stoa

Stoa – the Cultural Centre of Eastern Helsinki

1.1.2012 31.12.2012
Jubilee year on the Union Axis – from Observatory Hill to Kallio Church

Unioninkatu is the Festival Street of the Helsinki 200 Years as Capital jubilee year. Emperor Alexander I of Russia, who elevated Helsinki to the status of capital, arrived in Helsinki along this street on his 1819 visit to the city, and named it Unioninkatu, or Union Street.

1.1.2012 31.12.2012
Journeys to the heart of the city – education, book project and virtual street

The Union Axis dissects the centre of Helsinki, stretching from Kopernikuksentie on Observatory Hill, via Unioninkatu across Pitkäsilta Bridge to Siltasaarenkatu and to Kallio Church beyond.

1.1.2012 31.12.2012
From neighbourhoods to communities

The Kassi service is now Sharetribe.

1.1.2012 31.12.2012
Guard Battalion – 200 years

The history of the Guard Battalion begins with the Life Guard’s 3rd Finnish Sniper Battalion, founded in 1812.

1.1.2012 31.12.2012
Pihlajamäki 50 years!

The first residents moved to Pihlajamäki, in north-eastern Helsinki, in 1962, making 2012 a 50th anniversary year for the purpose-built suburb.

1.1.2012 31.12.2012
The open city – opportunities for improving the lives of city residents

Laituri is one of the most important Helsinki venues for World Design Capital year 2012.

Exhibitions, which change every month, follow the theme ‘The open city – opportunities for improving the lives of city residents’.

8.4.2012 31.12.2012
Taste Helsinki’s 200-year culinary history

The HelsinkiMenu restaurants are marking the city’s 200 years as Finland’s capital with a wide range of menus and flavours from across this period.

18.8.2012 31.12.2012
At Your Service!

Food and drink culture of Helsinki and Finland
in the new permanent exhibition at the Hotel and Restaurant Museum

27.9.2012 31.12.2012
Seats of learning – 200 years of design at Helsinki University

Seats of learning – 200 years of design at Helsinki University exhibition explores the university’s interiors over the past two centuries.

29.3.2012 17.2.2013
”Discoveries – art on campus”

Come and discover which significant historical figures thronged to Finland’s new capital city!

18.9.2012 28.2.2013
In the Shadows of Eagles – Finland in 1812

The document exhibition showcases the year 1812, which was in many ways a significant year in Finnish history. Emperor Alexander I of Russia and Crown Prince Carl Johan of Sweden met in Turku in the August of 1812 and sealed Finland's position as a Grand Duchy of Russia. In the same year, Helsinki became the capital of Finland, Old Finland was connected to the rest of Finland and the national armed forces were re-established.

16.8.2012 31.8.2013
Unelma (‘dream’) sculpture

Oona Tikkaoja’s sculpture Unelma (‘dream’) is a moveable public work of art. Its first location is on Siltasaarenkatu in Hakaniemi.

12.6.2012 1.9.2013
Made in Helsinki 1700–2012

The City Museum’s main exhibition to mark Helsinki’s two centuries as Finland’s capital showcases products made in Helsinki, and their makers, from the 18th century until present day.

6.6.2012 31.12.2015
Art on the Union Line

Modern Finnish art will be showcased on transformer boxes along the Union Axis from Unioninkatu to Siltasaarenkatu.