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Exhibitions

Messengers exhibition is an experiential journey through the history of postal services in Finland since the beginning in 1638 to the present day with visitor participation. It will feature moving stories from the past, from recent history and from the present day. You will be able to learn about historic mail routes and crossing the stormy Sea of Åland as well as gain insight into postage stamps and sense the nostalgia of recent decades.

The Postal Museum will try to communicate stories and emotions to you. We hope that you will experience a moment of epiphany: “I remember this!”. There will also be interesting theme exhibitions, events and activities.

Current exhibitions

Piirroskuvassa keijukainen kukkivan omenapuun oksan luona, alla postimerkki, jossa omenapuun kukkia.

Towards Summer – Virpi Pekkala’s maximum cards

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2nd floor

Towards Summer is an exhibition featuring more than 100 maximum cards that will get viewers into the summer mood. The cards, based on artist Virpi Pekkala’s postcards, come from Leena Vainio’s extensive collection of maximum cards. The exhibition also includes scale models depicting the cards’ themes made by Pekkala herself.

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Vanhan ajan postinjakaja mustavalkoisessa osuudessa ojentaa paketin nuorelle naiselle nykyaikaan värilliseen kuvaosuuteen.

Packaged dreams

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2nd floor

The exhibition describes the development of distance selling in Finland, changes in consumer culture, advances in transportation and distribution channels and the big and small players in the distance selling business from the perspective of consumers, sellers and logistics operations. The exhibition also invites visitors to think about their consumption habits, contemporary phenomena and themes […]

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Messengers

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1st floor

The Messengers exhibition will feature several compelling features that mark the important moments in the history of the postal services.

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Virtual exhibitions

Postal Roads

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Noteworthy sources of joy – an exhibition of personalised stamps

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The Postal Museum organised a collection in spring 2021 and asked the public to submit pictures and background stories about their personalised stamps to be exhibited. The request was distributed through the museum’s channels in Postinen and the Filatelisti magazine. More than 250 personalised stamps with great stories were sent in. The exhibition themes feature […]

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Postal workers in their different yellow-plum-red outfits.

Posti’s uniforms through the centuries

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Clothes have always been a necessity as protection, but they have also conveyed a message to other people. A uniform worn at work is not just a garment but also a symbol of a position and job. Posti’s uniforms through the centuries online exhibition showcases the clothing of postal authorities and postal workers from the […]

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Postmasters General

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This virtual exhibition showcases the fourteen Postmasters General of the Finnish Postal services from 19th to 21st century.

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Correspondence of Tom of Finland

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Tom of Finland is one of Finland’s most internationally renowned artists. It was the commercial artist and artist Touko Laaksonen (1920-1991) who was the master of homoerotic art behind the pseudonym. A lot of his correspondence, spanning six decades, has survived. The letters give readers glimpses of Laaksonen’s life as a young man, a soldier […]

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Past exhibitions

Lasten kuvalehden kansi, jossa piirros lumisateessa olevasta lapsesta

Children’s magazines

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2nd floor

The favourite magazines during the inter-war period were Pääskynen and Sirkka, which encouraged children to take up instructive hobbies. After Sirkka was discontinued in 1945, Kimmo, Koululainen, Lasten Kuvalehti and Lasten Maailma, all founded that year, competed for children’s attention. Comic books began competing with children’s magazines from 1949 onwards, and Aku Ankka (‘Donald Duck’), […]

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Kehitysvammainen henkilö ison tv-ruudun ääressä

Free to communicate?

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2nd floor

What are the alternative ways of communicating when the usual methods, such as speaking and writing, are not possible? What challenges and opportunities do the different communication methods present? Contemporary collecting is a term used by museums for their efforts to preserve today’s phenomena and current events for future generations in their collections. The joint […]

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