IN EXHIBITION
3.3.-25.10.2020 THOSE WHO LEFT
The photographic exhibition Those Who Left (Lähteneet in Finnish) shows what can happen to people who have left their home, striving for something better.
MUSEUM OPENS AGAIN 2.6.2020
The Helinä Rautavaara Museum returns to regular opening hours on June 2, 2020. Warmly welcome!
THE MASHCO-PIRO OF PERU – PEOPLE OF THE RAINFORREST 31.8.2019 – 9.2.2020
Dwelling in the rainforests of the Amazon are around one hundred groups of indigenous people who live isolated from the rest of the world. Among them are the Mashco-Piro people of the Madre de Dios region of south-eastern Peru. Contrary to what many people think, such...
FACE TO FACE – COLLECTION EXHIBITION
Helinä Rautavaara (1928–1998), travelled first in Europe, then further afield into more distant cultures. Her desire was to see, experience and to understand. Curiosity and the wish to let her passionate interest take the lead link her to other earlier female explorers.
A JOURNEY TO THE WORLD OF MAHASIDDHAS – THANGKA PAINTINGS BY GESHE MÖNLAM WANGYAL 18.1-25.2.2018
The Helinä Rautavaara Museum shows thangka paintings by contemporary Tibetan artist and monk Geshe Mönlam Wangyal. The paintings portray the great masters and teachings of the ancient Bön tradition, a pre-Buddhist spiritual and cultural tradition of Tibet and the...
PHURANENGO DROM – THE WAY OF THE ELDERS 28.2.-20.8.2017
The Finnish Roma population has been living in Finland for more than 500 years. At present, they number some 10,000. While living side-by-side with the ethnic majority of Finland, the Roma have continued to preserve their own cultural heritage. Over a period of two...
MOGADISHU THEN AND NOW – IMAGES AND POEMS OF A CITY 14.3.-2.9.2018
MARCH 14 – SEPTEMBER 2 2018. Visit Mogadishu on the wings of traditional Somali poetry. The exhibition Mogadishu Then and Now showed the history of a lively hub of commerce from when it was an Italian colony through independence, civil war and a new dawn.