Guided tours
Guided tours to the Design Museum exhibitions
All free guided tours in English to the current exhibitions, please check the timetable here. Max 15 persons on the tour.
Prices: weekdays €60, Saturdays and Sundays €75.
Guided visits for pupils and students of comprehensive and secondary schools: €35. Bookings by phone on +358 9 6220 540, 8 – 11 a.m. At other times, please contact info@designmuseum.fi
Enquiries about guided tours
+358 9 6220540 at 8 a.m. – 11 a.m.
info@designmuseum.fi
Enquiries about guided tours in other languages from the information service
+358 9 6220 540
info@designmuseum.fi
Facility bookings and Services
Designed by the architect Gustaf Nyström and dating from 1894, is an excellent venue for all kinds of events. Added value is provided by Design Museum’s changing exhibitions and guided visits. The museum has years of experience of organizing events for businesses, organizations and private individuals.
Lecture Space and Conference Room
Design Museum’s Lecture Space and Conference Room can mainly be rented during the museum’s opening hours. Exhibition can also be hired upon separate agreement for events outside museum hours (6 p.m. – 10 p.m.). The museum is in the centre of Helsinki and is easily accessed.
Rental of facilities:
Lecture Space (70 m2, max. 75 persons) €400/3h and Conference Room (up to 16 persons) €300/3h. The price does not include VAT (24%).
Café
The museum’s fully licensed Taito Café seats 35 and is open to the public during museum hours. After closing at 6 p.m. refreshments can be served in other areas of the museum. The museum café provides high-standard catering services planned according to the wishes of customers. Various events, such as cocktail parties and buffets, can be held in the exhibition and lobby spaces of the museum.
Exhibition spaces
The exhibition spaces are on three floors:
Basement level (gallery) 250m2, height 200–285 cm, max. 65 persons. Rental from €600 € (+VAT 24%)/3h.
First floor (lobby), 250m2, height 360–410 cm, max. 180 persons. Rental from €700 € (+VAT 24%) /3h.
Second floor, 700m2, height 420–610 cm, max. 180 persons. Rental from €1800 (+VAT 24%) /3h.
Please note that the architecture of the museum’s temporary exhibitions may affect the number of persons allowed in the spaces concerned.
The rental of facilities can be combined upon agreement with guided tours of Design Museum’s exhibitions.
Enquiries and rental of facilities
Please address enquiries and requests for quotes concerning available space, bookings for facilities and guided tours to: info@designmuseum.fi
By phone Mon – Fri 9 a.m. – 11 a.m., tel. +358 9 6220 540.
EXHIBITION SPACES
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600€ (+VAT 24%)/3h | ||
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700€ (+VAT 24%)/3h | ||
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1800€ (+VAT 24%)/3h |
TAITO Café
Taito Café combines Finnish design with stylish and relaxed cuisine. Design, art and cooking alike call for feeling, love and professionalism – all of which are elements of Taito Cafe’s identity. Our values include support for local food and small businesses.
Taito Café offers freshly baked sourdough bread, pastries, pies and sweet pastries. The café also serves coffee from a local roastery, microbrewery beers and organic wines. A delicious soup and salad lunch is served daily from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
TAITO Café
myynti@taitocafe.fi
tel. +358 45 7750 3022
CAFE OPENING HOURS
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Winter season 1.9.–31.5. | |
Tue Wed–Sun Mon |
11 am–8 pm 11 am–6 pm Closed |
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Summer season 1.6.–31.8. | |
Mon–Fri | 11 am–8 pm |
Sat–Sun | 11 am–6 pm |
Online store
Design Museum Online Store offers a great variety of design products and design publications. Come to explore, order and have them delivered to your door.
Design Shop
Design Museum Shop offers a wide range of Finnish and international design products including both classics and work by young designers. The shop also features products on a changing basis related to current exhibitions at the museum.
Street address
Korkeavuorenkatu 23
00130 Helsinki
Contact
Terhi Koivusaari
Design Store Manager
+358 9 6220 5421
terhi.koivusaari@designmuseum.fi
DESIGN SHOP OPENING HOURS
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Winter season 1.9.–31.5. | |
Tue Wed–Sun Mon |
11 am–8 pm 11 am–6 pm Closed |
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Summer season 1.6.–30.8. | |
Mon–Fri | 11 am–8 pm |
Sat–Sun | 11 am–6 pm |
Museum research services
The museum’s collections databases, archives and index of designers are available by appointment for used by researchers in the museum’s premises. Design Museum’s Image Archives are a national central archive body of the field of applied art and design.
The Design Museum’s collections can be browsed both in the Finna online information service and on the Design Museum’s Digital Collection website.
Contacts
Single publication rights of images from €100.
Image Shop: image.designmuseo.fi
Bookings (Image Archives and visual services)
Johanna Kiuru
+358 50 570 4010
johanna.kiuru@designmuseum.fi
Objects Collection
Loans to exhibitions
Aino Pisilä
tel. +358 50 337 4494
aino.pisila@designmuseum.fi
Research services
Susanna Thiel
tel. +358 50 400 5957
susanna.thiel@designmuseum.fi