Exhibitions


Exhibitions

Collectors - Journeys to Other Worlds

16.5.2013 - 16.3.2014

The exhibition Collectors – Journeys to Other Worlds presents collectors from Häme as well as private museum collections and collecting as a hobby. The exhibition presents the collections of twenty collectors as well as collectors’ items donated to the
Hämeenlinna Historical Museum during the last one hundred years.

The children and young people from Aimokoulu school have also built their own world of collections for the exhibition.Through the private collections you can travel to other times,
places or realities. Since the 1800s, industrialisation and mass production have created an astronomical amount of objects around us, which has made collecting possible in a completely new way.

The people collecting stamps, butterflies or antiques are not the only hobbyists in the field. You can collect anything: objects, ideas and experiences. Private collections have also amassed enormous amounts of material cultural heritage.

The exhibition is produced by the Hämeenlinna Historical Museum and accomplished in collaboration with the Häme Castle, Voionmaa Institute, Aimokoulu and twenty collectors from the Häme region.

Muolaa church built by Erkki Känkänen.
Photo: Krista Luoma.

Hämeenlinna telephone museum, collection of Pekka Granqvist. Photo: Petri Anttila.

Hämeenlinna telephone museum,
collection of Pekka Granqvist. Photo: Petri Anttila.

Forthcoming:
Knight's Workshop - interactive workshop for children

3.6. - 1.9.2013

In the Knight's Workshop you can travel to the time of knights and castles. In the workshop one may experience and identify: try on an armour and a sword, determine what type of parts where in a jousting armour, get familiar with coats of arms and Finnish castles.

The workshop is open during castle’s opening hours until 1.9.2013.

Knight’s Workshop is aimed for kids age 7 to 12.

Logo of the Knight's Workshop. Design: Raija Pirilä.

Permanent exhibitions

Häme Castle houses permanent as well as temporary exhibitions. Terra Tavestorum (The Land of the Häme People) is a permanent exhibition which features archaeological artefacts found during more than 100 years of research carried out in Häme, and shows the prehistory of the area.

Other permanent exhibitions are 'The History of Brick', 'The Treasure of Vaaraslahti in Pielavesi', 'Medieval Church Art' and 'The Restoration of the Castle'.