New Urban Life outdoor exhibition in Helsinki City Centre

From April 29th to June 15th 2025

Posted on: 9 May 2025

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Trees from Heikinpuisto are moved to Heikinkatu street (later Mannerheimintie) in Kamppi in Helsinki, on September 5, 1935. Photo: Hugo Sundström / HBL / Press Photo Archive JOKA / Finnish Heritage Agency

On the 29th of April, the Finnish Heritage Agency opened a new outdoor photography exhibition in Helsinki City Center, which will be open until June 15th 2025.

This exhibition in Helsinki will be followed by exhibitions in Porvoo and Tammisaari (old coastal towns in Southern Finland) with images from Porvoo (1960s and 1970s) and Tammisaari (1950s).

You can enjoy this Urban Life exhibition (partially) also online here: Kaupunkielämää / Stadsliv / Urban Life – Museovirasto.

Exhibitions are organized in collaboration with Konstsamfundet foundation, the Finnish Heritage Agency’s journalistic photo archive JOKA, the Lasipalatsi block, newspapers Hufvudstadsbladet, Västra Nyland, and Borgåbladet, as well as the cities of Raseborg and Porvoo.

 

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