Description of the attraction
The Vapriikki Museum Center gets its name from the Swedish word for “factory”. It is located in Tampere, in a former factory building, in one of the former workshops of the Tampella factory, whose industrial history began in 1840. with a small blast furnace. Later, metallurgical production merged with the textile industry, but despite a wide range of products - from locomotives to linen - the use of these buildings completely ceased in the 1990s.
At present, Vapriikki is a complex museum center, located on 4 floors, with a total area of about 13,000 m2. More than half of the building is dedicated to exhibition space, restoration workshops, research laboratories and photo archives.
During the year, about a dozen various exhibitions, temporary and permanent, are organized here, dedicated to archeology and contemporary art, history and technology.
Vapriikki also houses the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame, the Shoe Museum and the Puppet Museum. In the Museum of History, visitors can get acquainted with the inhabitants of the local flora and fauna of Tampere over the past 10 thousand years. Those wishing to study the life of the samurai and the history of the kimono visit the Inro Museum.
The visitor center has an excellent restaurant and a museum shop offering a wide range of literature and gifts.
