29.5.2012
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7.6.2012
Helsinki International Ballet Competition
Finnish National Opera
7.6.2012
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9.6.2012
Finnish Province Days feat. South Ostrobothnia at the Senat Square
The annual festival Finnish Province Days welcomes South Ostrobothnia to the Senate Square from 7-9 June.
6.6.2012
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10.6.2012
Art Meets Sand 2012
Art Meets Sand is a summertime event in Korkeasaari that brings international sand sculpture experts to Helsinki.
12.6.2012
Welcome to the Botanic Museum!
To mark the 200th anniversary year, the Botanic Museum will be opening its doors to the general public
12.6.2012
Performance: Katulahja – Street Gifts
On Helsinki Day the streets, parks and alleys of the city will be filled with the gifts of music, poetry and dance.
12.6.2012
Helsinki Day 12.6.
Helsinki celebrates its birthday among residents and visitors on 12 June. Helsinki Day has been officially celebrated since 1959.
12.6.2012
Grand Opening of Helsinki Day and traditional morning coffee
Mayor Jussi Pajunen opens the celebrations with a speech in front of the Helsinki City Museum (Sofiankatu 4) at 9am, followed by morning coffees and music inside the courtyard of City Hall at appro
12.6.2012
Program på stadshuset hela Helsingforsdagen
Helsinki’s birthday will be celebrated
4.4.2012
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17.6.2012
Head and heart – Helsinki celebrates 200 years as Finland’s capital
The Head and Heart exhibition at Virka Galleria tells the story of Helsinki, declared as the capital of the newly created Grand Duchy of Finland on 8 April 1812 by Tsar Alexander I.
2.6.2012
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17.6.2012
The Helsinki Week
The Helsinki Week, which has grown around the Helsinki Day, offers experiences and things to do to suit all tastes.
9.6.2012
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17.6.2012
Café Empire
Sederholm House
19.6.2012
Welcome to the Botanic Museum!
To mark the 200th anniversary year, the Botanic Museum will be opening its doors to the general public
14.5.2012
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21.6.2012
Helsinki – Finland’s capital for 200 years
In November the Sytkyt Puppet Theatre toured Finland from Inari to Porvoo with a show on the history of Helsinki. After the show, the children created stories and drawings of their own hometowns.
22.6.2012
Seurasaari Midsummer Celebration
Finnish midsummer is all about bonfires, dancing, games, swings and magic, the Finnish flag and the scent of birch trees.
26.6.2012
European Athletics Championships opening ceremony
The Opening Ceremony of the European Athletics Championships takes place in Senate Square on Tuesday, June 26, from 20 to 22 hrs.
4.4.2012
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29.6.2012
Helsinki youth in the 1950s and 1960s
Finlandia Hall
12.6.2012
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30.7.2012
”From swamp land to capital – Helsinki, the city next to Suomenlinna”
To mark Helsinki’s 200 years as capital city, the Ehrensvärd Society will be offering visitors of Suomenlinna the opportunity to discover the shared history of Finland’s capital city and this unique island fortress.
26.3.2012
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15.8.2012
Searching for the city’s soul
A history of urban planning in Helsinki
Suomenlinnakeskus
5.6.2012
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16.8.2012
Nature trips down Helsinki’s memory lane
Nature trips organised by the Environment Centre take you back 200 years into the history of the capital.
1.5.2012
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30.9.2012
The emergence of Finland’s literary culture
The National Library of Finland
1.5.2012
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30.9.2012
Martti Luther and his impact on Finland
The National Library of Finland
1.1.2012
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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
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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
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31.12.2012
From neighbourhoods to communities
The Kassi service is now Sharetribe.
1.1.2012
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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
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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
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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
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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.
29.3.2012
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17.2.2013
”Discoveries – art on campus”
Come and discover which significant historical figures thronged to Finland’s new capital city!
12.6.2012
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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
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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.