Paikka: 2nd floor

Children’s magazines

28/10/2022

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’), […]

Free to communicate?

28/10/2022

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 […]

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

Packaged dreams

31/08/2022

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 […]

Mail Art re-designed

28/03/2022

The Pirkanmaa design, arts and crafts association Modus ry’s exhibition Mail Art re-designed broadens the view of the materials used in mail art and the involvement of designers and artisans in the art form.