National Museum of Finland returned a royal kataklè to the Republic of Benin
14.5.2025
A dignified ceremony was held on Tuesday 13 May in Cotonou, the capital of Benin, where the National Museum of..
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The National Museum of Finland launches a repatriation to Benin
4.11.2024
The National Museum of Finland is preparing to return a kataklé, a ceremonial royal stool which was received into the..
The National Museum of Finland brings a dialogue on the ownership and management of cultural heritage to museum and cultural professionals
5.9.2024
The dialogue discussions for museum and cultural professionals form a dialogue tour organised in three locations by the film Máhccan..
The National Museum of Finland repatriated the fragments of the power stone to Namibia
27.4.2023
On Thursday 27 April, the National Museum of Finland handed over two stone fragments of its ethnographic collections to the..
METAL conference comes to Finland for the first time this September
16.6.2022
The main theme of the five-day conference, organised by the National Museum of Finland, Metropolia University of Applied Sciences and..
Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto donates the ‘NATO pen’ to the National Museum of Finland
8.6.2022
On Wednesday 8 June, Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto donated to the National Museum of Finland the pen used to sign..
Following the explorers’ footsteps in the ancient Middle East
13.5.2022
The area now known as the Middle East was the birthplace of the oldest and largest empires of the past...
The Homecoming exhibition opening at the National Museum taught operators to work as equals
19.10.2021
The Homecoming exhibition is a refreshing combination of culture-historical material, expression through contemporary art and culture-political debate. The exhibition connected..
The Sámi collection of the National Museum of Finland arrives in Sápmi
1.9.2021
Today, Wednesday, the Sámi Museum Siida received the National Museum of Finland’s collection of Sámi artefacts. The repatriation of cultural..
The Homecoming, opening in October, celebrates the repatriation of Sámi artefacts to the Sámi homeland, Sápmi
25.2.2021
Opening in October 2021, the exbition Mäccmõš, maccâm, máhccan – The Homecoming illustrates the vibrant Sámi culture and provokes thoughts..
The National Museum of Finland returned Pueblo Tribes’ ancestral remains from its collection for reburial in Mesa Verde, Colorado
17.9.2020
The ancestors and grave items, which are estimated to date back to the 13th century and were part of the..
The procedures of the National Museum of Finland due to the Coronavirus – updated on Mar 16th
13.3.2020
The National Museum of Finland's museums and castles are temporarily closed.