2.12.2011
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2.1.2012
Gingerbreadhouse competition – Helsinki 200 years as Finland’s capital
Bakery and confectionery students from the Helsinki City College of Culinary Art, Fashion and Beauty create gingerbread houses reflecting Helsinki’s 200 years as Finland’s capital.
12.1.2012
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29.1.2012
Carl Ludvig Engel: My home in Helsinki – my heart in Berlin
Cultural Centre G18
2.2.2012
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11.3.2012
Stefan Bremer: Helsinki
The Helsinki exhibition is photographer Stefan Bremer’s declaration of love to his home city.
28.2.2012
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11.3.2012
My Helsinki
Young people with a Somali background show photographs of their home city.
31.3.2012
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9.4.2012
Tulip fever exhibition
Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden Glasshouses
7.3.2012
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29.4.2012
C. L. Engel. My home in Helsinki – my heart in Berlin
The National Museum of Finland
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.
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.
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.
4.4.2012
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29.6.2012
Helsinki youth in the 1950s and 1960s
Finlandia Hall
26.3.2012
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15.8.2012
Searching for the city’s soul
A history of urban planning in Helsinki
Suomenlinnakeskus
16.9.2012
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18.9.2012
The grand fungi and lichen exhibition
Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden
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
24.10.2012
Helsinki Observatory – Astronomical visitor centre
Designed by C.L. Engel and completed in 1834, the Observatory on Observatory Hill is currently being renovated and is due to reopen to the public in autumn 2012.
26.9.2012
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4.11.2012
Autumn at Stoa
Stoa – the Cultural Centre of Eastern Helsinki
16.10.2012
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4.11.2012
Sanna Pietilä: Portrait of a city dweller
The exhibition of apparel from the 1900s provides a glimpse into how people used to dress.
2.12.2012
Family Fun at the Library
Rikhardinkatu Library
3.12.2012
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14.12.2012
The city space and the sacred space – Visions unrealised
New churches have often found their form through church competitions. The realised designs have had a critical impact on the cityscape, but the competitions have other aspirations, ideals and visions associated with them as well. Find out all about them.
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
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’.
18.8.2012
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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
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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.
21.11.2012
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31.12.2012
Children’s City
To conclude the 200th jubilee year, Helsinki City Museum will be handing over the city’s oldest building to its youngest residents.
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!
18.9.2012
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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.
16.10.2012
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31.3.2013
Exhibition: German-language Helsinki
In the 19th century, German families had a significant impact on the development of Finland and its capital.
16.8.2012
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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
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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.
10.12.2012
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31.12.2014
The Blue Line
The Helsinki 200 Years as Capital jubilee year will culminate in a light installation above the anniversary year theme street Union Axis.
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.