The Tampere Year of Museums will offer a great showcase in 2025

In spring 2025, the Sara Hildén Art Museum will present a major retrospective exhibition of Heikki Marila, one of the most important Finnish painters of his generation, continuing the Sara Hildén Foundation's series of presentations of artists in the collection. The question of power in its various manifestations is a pervasive theme throughout Marila's oeuvre. The rest of the year's exhibition sheds light on the development of Finnish visual art since the early 20th century through the Sara Hildén Foundation's collection. It includes many of the most iconic works in Finnish visual art, such as Tyko Sallinen's witty folk portrait Hihhulits (1918), Helene Schjerfbeck's late-period delicate Picture of a Dress (1938) and Kimmo Kaivanto's When the Sea Dies II (1973), a landmark work of the 1960s and 1970s.

Museum Centre Vapriikki`s Year 2025 will offer visitors both colourful popular culture and the latest research on human history. Opening on 29th May, Superheroes - From Antiquity to Contemporary is a stunning dive into the evolution of heroic stories in collaboration with an Italian exhibition producer. In June, the highly anticipated exhibition Ancient DNA - The Key to the Past will open, bringing you face-to-face with ancient Finns. Vapriikki will also open a new Mineral Gallery, Nature Photos of the Year 2024, and temporary exhibitions at the Finnish Museum of Games and the Postal Museum.

From 28 April, the Museum Milavida, which is celebrating its 10th birthday, will host an opera full of emotion and drama. Bravissimo! - Costumes from the Roman Opera tells the opera's pompous history and presents the glorious costumes seen on the stages.

The main exhibition of the Postal Museum next year tells about the importance of photo postcards as transmitters of information and moods. The extensive A Revolution in Imagery exhibition, which opens in January, shows how photography became an integral part of the postcard and a new kind of communication. During 2025, the museum will focus on the design of a new core exhibition, which will focus on the story of Posti and the Finnish communicator in many different ways. Two exhibitions will open at the Collaborative space Kupla.

The Tampere Art Museum celebrates the hundred-year history of international surrealist art. The immersive exhibition Surrealism - Collective Dream explores surrealist art's vision of reality, showcasing encounters between the movement's pioneers and significant contemporary artists. As part of the Surrealism exhibition, media art by Marco Brambilla, an Italian-born artist based in London, will be featured for the first time in the Nordic countries. His work Heaven's Gate (2022) has been considered a commentary on American maximalism and the overwhelming flood of imagery-a kind of metaverse or hyperreality for our times.

In the fall, the art museum will present the Young Artist of the Year 2025 exhibition along with new media art by visual artist Hanna Haaslahti. Her piece Ancestors is a family drama that uses 3D technology and artificial intelligence, with the elders of the family represented by digital doubles of audience members.

The City of Tampere has signed a three-year partnership agreement with Moomin Characters Ltd. The 80th anniversary of the Moomins will launch this partnership, highlighting Tampere as the home city of the world's only Moomin Museum.

The Moomin Museum's Welcome to the Moominhouse! exhibition invites visitors to explore even the most hidden corners of the only original Moominhouse, located in the Moomin Museum. In Tove Jansson's Moomin stories, the Moominhouse symbolizes safety, shelter, and togetherness.

Museums's websites

• Sara Hildén Art Museum

• Museum Centre Vapriikki

• Museum Milavida

• Tampere Art Museum

• Moomin Museum

• Amuri Museum of Historic Housing