Paikka: 2nd floor

Pahkasika – 10 Letters You Can Count on

14/01/2021

Pahkasika – 10 Letters You Can Count on, a joint exhibition of the Postal Museum and Media Museum Rupriikki on the legendary humorous magazine, will be open from 19 February to 14 August 2016. The exhibits include comic strips, which were some of the magazine’s key contents, as well as artefacts from private collections. The […]

Christmas stamps

14/01/2021

The Christmas stamps exhibition on 10 November 2016–8 January 2017 will present all Christmas stamps published in Finland and the original sketches made by artists. Also on display are entries from a Christmas stamp design competition organised by Posti and the Association of Finnish Illustrators. Finland’s first Christmas stamp was published in 1973. It features […]

Secret Mail of Finnish Jaeger Troop

14/01/2021

The exhibition ‘Secret Mail of Finnish Jaeger Troops’ (18 March 2016–19 March 2017) shows the Jaegers from a new perspective through letters and diaries. The exhibition gives an insight into their reasons for leaving, camp life and the conditions at the front, and describes the secret correspondence between the Jaegers and their loved ones. The […]

Riitta Ikonen’s Mail Art – Art Mail

14/01/2021

The exhibition features over 200 of Riitta Ikonen’s postcard-sized works of art sent through the postal service from different parts of the world. Assembled using glue, tape or wire, the works are created from chopsticks, pins, bark, a flipper, bird nests, phone wires, shreds of paper, lint from a washing machine, streamers, scissors, seaweed have […]