Logi
The Finnish Postal Museum is a Museum with National Responsibility working with the name Logi. The museum carries out the national responsibility role in collaboration with Vapriikki (the Tampere Historical Museums). A Museum with national responsibility serves as an expert institution in its own special field — for Logi, this includes communication, games, postal services, and digital life. Logi presents and preserves these themes to safeguard their cultural heritage. In particular, the preservation of digitally born materials is a key focus for Logi.
The Ministry of Education and Culture granted the Post Museum the national responsibility task for the 2024–2027 term. The main emphasis of the role is on preserving digitally born materials — an important area that had previously been missing from the field of responsibility museums.
The Postal Museum carries out the task under a partnership agreement with the Tampere Historical Museums, including especially the Finnish Museum of Games and the Media Museum Rupriikki. The Postal Museum and Vapriikki continue to operate under their own names and as independent organizations.
Logi
- promotes understanding of the mediated world, human interaction, flows of information and goods, and how these evolve
- encourages reflection on how different channels, tools, modes of communication, and content influence our lives — individually, within communities, and across society
- will be a pioneer in preserving the cultural heritage of digital communication
- will be an important developer of multiliteracy and dialogue culture
Logi in Collaboration
In the “Preserving the Demoscene” joint project, we have digitized the history and present of the demoscene phenomenon. We also produced the award-winning documentary film Hands Deep — A Journey into the Demoscene.
We are leading a Nordic collaboration project focused on preserving the history of games in the Nordic countries. In March 2025, we organized a live meeting for project members in Tampere. The event was very successful, and we agreed on the next steps for the project’s future.
The work of the new national responsibility museum is also visible in Finna, the joint digital service of libraries, archives, and museums in Finland. The “Post and Bits” collection view, jointly curated by the Postal Museum and the Tampere Historical Museums, gathers together materials related to communication, games, postal services, and digital life — all accessible from your own sofa at home.
Logi’s Operating Environment
Logi operates nationwide, on digital platforms online, and at the Vapriikki Museum Centre in Tampere. Logi will also feature in a new exhibition opening at Vapriikki in 2026.
The Story Behind the Name “Logi”
The national responsibility role was given its own name and brand to reflect its special focus areas: communication, games, postal services, and digital life. The brand was developed collaboratively with museum professionals.
The name Logi evokes ideas of digitality and communication. Since the main focus of the responsibility task is the preservation of digitally born materials, the name visually resembles ones and zeros — the very essence of digital life and what the task aims to preserve.
In Finnish, loki or logi (log) also refers to an IT log, a sequence of recorded events. Moreover, Logi is derived from the word dialogi (dialogue), reflecting what museums strive to foster and document: dialogue and connection.