Children’s Museum Festival transforms Tapiola Museums into a weekend-long Pyjama Party on 16 and 17 March 2024!
Young museum visitors’ favourite weekend is here again! The Children’s Museum Festival is celebrated in EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, KAMU Espoo City Museum, Exhibition Centre WeeGee, and in the Leikki and Kruunu museums just a stone’s throw away! Celebrating the theme of Pyjama Party, the festival fills the museums with creative activities and fun programme throughout the weekend.
How about exploring dream worlds in a museum – in your pyjamas? You don’t have to wait for it any longer! The Children’s Museum Festival on 16 and 17 March has loads of activities that are inspired by the idea of a pyjama party activities and imaginary worlds: workshops, performances, music and other fun stuff in which art, architecture and history play an important role. Activities for the entire family include AnnanHouse disco, Chevalier hobby horse circus and scenes from Unikuskit, a play for children. In the galleries you can come across Dream Scientist, a hilarious duo who investigate the mysteries of dreams, and you may even meet Mr Clutterbuck, everyone's favourite sleepwalker.
The activities and performances can be enjoyed in the two museum buildings on Saturday and Sunday from 11–17. The festival programme includes adventures with strange creatures in a magical forest of dreams, moonlight rides in a garden at night, and a machine that whispers funny dreams! In the art workshops you can engage with dream stuff, build creative lanterns for bedtime stories, and make a soft dreamhead creature. And if you bring your own sleep toy to the festival, you can lull it into sleep with a snack and a lullaby.
If the pyjama party gets a bit too hectic, there is always Slumberland, a sensory-friendly space where children can lull their adults into sleep. The space has noice cancelling headphones you can use to relax completely.
Mark the weekend in your calendar, dress the whole family in their pyjamas and join the Children’s Museum Festival party!
Detailed programme and schedule of the festival will be updated during February at www.lastenmuseofestarit.fi
Children’s Museum Festival: Pyjama Party
Time and date:
Sat–Sun 16–17 March 2024 from 11–17
Venues:
Tapiola museums: EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, KAMU Espoo City Museum, the Mauri Kunnas exhibition at Exhibition Centre WeeGee, as well as the Leikki museum of play and Kruunu, the Finnish Museum of Horology and Jewellery across the yard. The Espoo School of Art and the Arkki School of Architecture for Children and Youth also provide creative activities.
Location:
Tapiola museums are located within walking distance of Tapiola metro station, at Ahertajantie 3 (Leikki and Kruunu) and Ahertajantie 5 (WeeGee Exhibition Centre: EMMA, KAMU and Mauri Kunnas exhibition). We recommend using public transport. The EMMA website has videos with instructions to help you find your way from the metro station to the festival. Please note that there is a very limited number of parking spaces near the museums.
Admission fee:
Admission to the Children’s Museum Festival is included in the price of the museum ticket! The festival takes place in two separate museum buildings, each with its own entrance fee.
Exhibition Centre WeeGee: EMMA, KAMU and the Mauri Kunnas exhibition
- Adults: €20
➔ persons over 29 - Reduced admission: €10
➔ persons under 29, over 70, students, pensioners, national service members, teachers, unemployed - Free admission: €0
➔ persons under 18, and among others, personal assistants of persons with disabilities or special needs, Museum Card, ICOM card, Kaikukortti, Helsinki Card, Press Card. More info on Exhibition Centre WeeGee's website.
Leikki and Kruunu museums
During Children's Museum Festival Leikki and Kruunu museums sell a joint ticket to access both of the museums.
- Adults: € 18
➔ persons over 18 - Reduced admission: € 10
➔ students, unemployed, national service members, pensioners - Children’s ticket: €3
➔ persons aged 2–17 - Free admission: €0
➔ persons under 2, personal assistants, holders of Museum Card, ICOM card, OAJ card, Talentia card, Kaikukortti card, press card, and Ukrainian passport
+ There is a shared discount between the museums: showing receipt of admission to one building gets you a discount of 20% from the admission fee to the other building. The discount does not apply to concession groups.
Children’s Museum Festival in cooperation with AFRY.
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