Helsinki info

[Furlan]

Dear friends,
next week I will be in Helsinki for a congress, I hope I will have some free time to visit the city, I ahve already gave a look to some city guide but I would like to visit something "out of the guide", some ideas? For example there is some museum about the Soviet-Finish war? Some ethnographical museum?
I would like to eat something typical too...
Thanks

[ikki]

Yes, there is the military museum. Nice setups.
http://tupalo.com/fi/helsinki/puolustusvoimat-sotamuseo (really liisankatu, not a road so long it cannot be walked from one end to the other). Found best perhaps by finding the kaisaniemi park (supposed to be the royal park, but then monarchy was abolished before it even began), and at a crossing head back towards the town... over a Y-crossing and just straight forward.

Also see http://kartta.hel.fi/opas/main/default.asp?l=1&m=1&o=1&n=74009&e=53061&z=?462,229 for a more interactive map to orient yourself by.

As for the most typical special thingy imaginable. Go enter a food store ask for "HK Blue", and "emmental blue". Then use a cheeseslicer to slice some cheese, slice up a part of the HK and enter the cheese into the cuts. Bake in microwave. Youll need ketchup too. Id recommend FELIX.
Poor mans vegetable. Not exactly healthy, but after that you can claim to have eaten HK Blue :p

Ethnographical.. hmm..
Well there is the national museum, which has aside from furnitures also a collection of old dresses.

And then theres the cultural museum (sp?), located in the upper stores of "Tennispalatsi", Tennispalace. That building is also a movietheater with various restaurants and collection stores.. just go into the higher floors. Might be more multucultural tho and not so finnish.


Yes there are other foods, and most such places are a bit tricky to find tho. Taxi minimum, and the prices for taxi are prohibitive. 20+ for the shortest trips. Anything further and its 30, 40 or worse.

[The Ripper]

I would very warmly recommend the Mannerheim Museum in Helsinki.

http://www.mannerheim-museo.fi/mm.php?page=etusivu&lang=eng

The Museum is his old house in Helsinki, with most of it preserved as it was when he lived there. Very fascinating place. :thumb001:

Looks like you can even have a guided tour in Spanish, if you like! :D

[Matritensis]

If you have time,i recommend a visit to the Mannerheim museum,it's very well worth it.I'd have a salmon soup at restaurant Kuu,for example.

[Matritensis]

Damn,he was faster...

[Eldritch]

For Finnish history and ethnology the National Museum (http://www.nba.fi/en/nmf) is unmissable.

The Helsinki War Museum (http://www.nba.fi/en/nmf) is currently holding an exhibition on the Winter War, until the end of September.

For off-the-beaten track, Kotiharjun sauna (http://www.kotiharjunsauna.fi/) is in its first stages of being overrun by tourists, so a couple of years from now the opportunity will be gone. It's the last urban wooden-heated public sauna in the country, probably the world, with the exception of some banyas in Russia. Also check out some of the bars in the same area.

Eat here (http://www.seahorse.fi/). ;)

[Furlan]

I would very warmly recommend the Mannerheim Museum in Helsinki.

http://www.mannerheim-museo.fi/mm.php?page=etusivu&lang=eng

The Museum is his old house in Helsinki, with most of it preserved as it was when he lived there. Very fascinating place. :thumb001:

Looks like you can even have a guided tour in Spanish, if you like! :D
Thanks! Surely I will not miss it!

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