The Aboa Vetus and Ars Nova Museum is located in downtown Turku, Finland. The museum is situated in the Rettig palace, which was constructed in 1928. Aboa Vetus is a medieval-era city museum, whilst Ars Nova is a modern art museum. The stone elephant sculpture outside distinguishes this museum on the Turku riverfront. The museum is divided into three divisions. The first is the medieval town ruins and artifacts uncovered during archaeological digs, which transport tourists back to old Turku when it was still known as Abo. The second is the temporary display room, which showcases the work of various artists. The third section is devoted to modern art, which contains works by Picasso and Warhol, among others.

The museum was established in 1885 as two separate institutions. Originally, simply Ars Nova, the modern art museum, was planned, but during construction, a variety of buildings and relics going back to the Middle Ages were unearthed, and the archaeological investigation that was commissioned became Aboa Vetus. The two museums were joined in 2004, and Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova is currently one of the most popular tourist destinations in the entire Southwest Finland region.

Location: Itäinen rantakatu 4-6, 20700 Turku, Southwest Finland

Website: aboavetusarsnova.fi/en

Tampere, Finland, is home to the Moomin Museum. The Moomin Museum displays artwork by Tove Jansson (the Moomins' creator), 40 miniatures, tableaux depicting Moomin activities, and a tiny (2.5-meter-high) Moomin House. Around 2,000 exhibits are on show. The original Moominvalley multimedia is also exhibited. The Moomin Shop sells souvenirs, while the Moomin Library has Moomin books in a variety of languages.

While children may interact with the Moomin characters at the Moominworld theme park, people interested in the series' history and the art of Moomin inventor Tove Jansson can also visit the Moomin Museum in Tampere. The museum will relocate to Tampere Hall in the summer of 2017 and will display a massive art collection presented to the Tampere Art Museum by Jansson and her companion Tuulikki Pietilä, including early Moomin drawings. It is not just a must-see for every Moomin enthusiast, but also an opportunity to learn more about one of Finland's greatest and most adored artists.

Location: Yliopistonkatu 55, 33100 Tampere, Finland

Website: muumimuseo.fi/en/etusivu/

The Helsinki City Museum is a museum in Helsinki that records and displays the history of Finland. Its purpose is to document and preserve Helsinki's spiritual, physical, and architectural legacy. The museum exhibits personal stories and daily life in the city. It also serves as the regional museum for central Uusimaa, with the aim of promoting and directing museum activities in the area.

The Helsinki City Museum is located amid the city's oldest blocks, near the Senate Square. It also runs four additional museums in the Helsinki area, including Villa Hakasalmi, Burgher's House, Worker Housing Museum, and Tram Museum. All museums provide free admission. The museum's collections include around one million images, including popular photos of early twentieth-century Helsinki by Signe Brander, as well as 450,000 artifacts.

Location: Aleksanterinkatu 16, 00170 Helsinki, Finland

Website: helsinginkaupunginmuseo.fi/en

Rovaniemi's Arktikum is a museum and science center. The structure is also a popular cultural attraction and meeting and conference center, with a cafe and library to service guests. Arktikum, the Arctic Center, and the Provincial Museum of Lapland each have their own displays.

The displays of the Provincial Museum of Lapland and the Arctic Center look at Arctic culture, history, and current life. Human life in harmony with the environment is thoroughly examined. Arktikum also hosts temporary exhibits. The building incorporates several local natural materials, including Perttaus granite — the toughest form accessible in Finland – and lime-washed Lappish wood floors. Birch and reindeer skin is used to make the seats.

The most visible component of the museum, the glass corridor, is 172 meters long in total and is divided by the Kittilä highway, which is 30 meters wide. Because the entry foyer is near the southern end of the tube and tourists enter from the north, it acts as the "Gateway to the North". The exhibition room is shielded beneath the earth, simulating how animals in the North escape the hard, cold winter by burrowing beneath the snow.

Location: Pohjoisranta 4, 96200 Rovaniemi, Finland

Website: arktikum.fi/en

The Åland Maritime Museum is a museum in Mariehamn, Land, Finland. It is located on Hamngatan on the western side of town, about 1 km (0.62 mi) from the opposite end of Storagatan. It is, together with the Lands Museum, the most significant museum on the islands and a tribute to Aland's past as the owner of the world's biggest fleet of wooden sailing ships. The main attraction is a four-masted barque named Pommern, which was constructed in Glasgow in 1903 and is docked behind the museum. The museum structure is supposed to seem like a ship's prow piercing into the soil. It's been described as a "kitsch museum of fishing and marine business".

The museum built a ship's central core, which had a mast, salon, galley, and staterooms. Along with the boats, the ships' figureheads are on exhibit; the prominent figurehead featured, the main figure, previously ornamented the ship "California". There are also nautical trappings, ships in bottles, and sea chests on exhibit. The museum displays paintings of ships (docked at Hull, Antwerp, Hong Kong, or elsewhere) done by local painters who were expressly commissioned by the captains of each ship. Models of ships from various eras are shown on a similar scale, making it easy to see the difference between a Baltic schooner and an ocean-going windjammer.

Location: Hamngatan 2, 22100 Mariehamn, Finland

Website: sjofartsmuseum.ax/en

Siida is a museum in the hamlet of Inari, Finland, on Lake Inari. It is the location of the Sámi Museum and the Northern Lapland Nature Centre. Siida organizes exhibitions about Sámi culture and Northern Lapland's ecology. In addition, Siida features an open-air museum called the Inari Sámi Museum that is open throughout the summer. In 1960, the first structures were relocated to the museum grounds. Nearly 50 places of interest relating to Lapland's ecology and the Sámi and their culture may be found in the 7-hectare (17-acre) region. Furthermore, the area was home to Northern Lapland's first residents, and archaeological artifacts dating back about 9,000 years have been discovered.

Siida, a museum and cultural center for the Arctic area and the Sàmi indigenous is located in Northern Lapland. Siida is derived from the traditional Lappish word for a reindeer herding settlement. You may examine samples of Sàmi art and learn more about their cultural history and role in Finland at the museum. The café also provides freshly made, traditional pastries.

Location: Inarintie 46, 99870 Inari, Finland

Website: siida.fi/en

The Finnish Air Force Museum, originally the Aviation Museum of Central Finland, is an aviation museum in Tikkakoski, Jyväskylä, Finland, near Jyväskylä Airport. The museum displays Finland's aviation history from the early 1900s to the present. The Foundation of Aviation Museum of Central Finland owns the museum. The display features aircraft, engines, and aircrew equipment from the Finnish Air Force. The Air Force Signals Museum's equipment has its own department. A big collection of scale models provides a broader view of the entire aviation area.

The collection, which was far greater than the eight items on show, compelled the group to construct a much larger facility. The Aeroplanorama closed in 1967, only to resurface as the brand new Aviodome at Schiphol Center in 1971. The remarkable new structure, a 24-meter-high geodesic dome with a 60-meter span, has long been the world's biggest dome.

Location: Tikkakoskentie 125, Jyväskylä, Finland

Website: airforcemuseum.fi/exhibitions