Seurasaarisäätiö

Seurasaari in 2036?

riikka.vilen@seurasaarisaatio.fi — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:17:40 +0000

The Seurasaari Foundation will be seventy years old in 2026. In honor of the anniversary, we invite all Seurasaari visitors to consider an interesting question: What could Seurasaari be like in ten years?

As part of the anniversary program, a study and participatory data collection called Letters from Seurasaari 2036 will be carried out. The goal is to collect people’s thoughts, hopes, dreams and views on the future of Seurasaari.

Seurasaari is a special place for many. For some, it is a peaceful natural destination in the middle of the city, for others it is an important part of Finnish cultural heritage, and for others it is an environment for events, memories and encounters. We now want to hear how people see this unique place in the future.

We invite you to write a short letter or postcard about the future. The task is to imagine yourself in the year 2036 and describe what a visit to Seurasaari would be like then.

This study is part of Seurasaari’s 2026 anniversary year activities. It is conducted by Dr Anna Rauhala of the University of Helsinki and Dr Johanna Heinonen of the University of Eastern Finland, in collaboration with the Seurasaari Foundation. The Seurasaari Foundation will archive the collected material.

You can write your future visions here

Sustainable Travel Finland label for Seurasaari Foundation

riikka.vilen@seurasaarisaatio.fi — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 10:24:29 +0000

Seurasaari Foundation has been granted Sustainable Travel Finland label as a recognition of valuable and long-term work for sustainable tourism.

Seurasaari Foundation has started to do STF-label

riikka.vilen@seurasaarisaatio.fi — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 09:42:09 +0000

For responsible travel

In order for the tourism industry to be able to respond to changing demand and secure its future, development must be sustainable. For this purpose, Visit Finland has developed the Sustainable Travel Finland programme. Companies that undergo the entire programme and meet the criteria, are awarded with Sustainable Travel Finland label.

Sustainable Travel Finland (STF) programme provides companies with a concrete toolkit for developing sustainable tourism, which makes it easier to adopt sustainable measures and choices into the everyday life.

Book about northern wooden architecture and building tradition has been published

riikka.vilen@seurasaarisaatio.fi — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 07:52:05 +0000

PLACES AND HOUSES IN BORDERLAND Wooden Architecture and Building Tradition in the North 1700-1940

Editors: Reidun Laura Andreassen, Teppo Korhonen and Einar Niemi.

The contributions, covering a vast border region, spanning from the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Bothnia and from the White Sea deep into the Russian and Finnish Karelia, offer for the first time in one single volume a detailed scholarly presentation of northern wooden architecture and building tradition.

The focus has been variety as well as similarities in form and building techniques.

The illustrative examples chosen are Hamningberg and Skallelv in Norway, Suvanto and Ii in Finland and Gridino and Solombola in Russia.

This book is published by Ethnos ry – The Association of Finnish Ethnologists in cooperation with The Seurasaari Foundation.

The book can be purchased at Café Mieritz (Seurasaari) and Bookstore Tiedekirja (Snellmaninkatu 13, 00170 Helsinki).