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On Turku Day 18 September all students have the opportunity to get to know their home town by participating in cheerful Turku Day Appro!
The City of Turku invites students to explore their hometown on Turku Day, 18th of September. The Appro is free of charge. At the Appro, participants visit different Turku Day events and collect stamps on their Appropass. After collecting enough stamps, participants will get overall badges for finishing their degree.
The Neuropsychiatric team supports children under 13 years of age, their families and the professionals working with them in cases where the child has problems regulating activity and attention, impulse control, social interactions or recurrent behaviour.
The city of Turku is a partner in the Horizon 2020 project called SCALE-UP (Scale up user-Centric and dAta driven SoLutions for ConnEcted Urban Poles), i.e. the expansion of user-oriented data-based solutions in regional traffic nodes. The main leader of the project is the city of Antwerp. In addition to the urban areas of Turku and Antwerp, the project also includes the urban area of Madrid. Partner implementers of the Turku complex are Varsinais-Suomen liitto, Turku University of Applied Sciences and Vinka oy.
Visit Turku offers the event organizer an electronic registration form, which mainly provides accommodation, but also tickets and other additional services for the event. The registration form is in real-time and can be visually made to look like the event (event logos, text, etc.)
The number of participants in the events varies from 100 people and more. Visit Turku has provided accommodation for events since 2011. Clients have included e.g. large music events, sports events and professional association events.
Circular Turku is implemented in close partnership with ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, a global network working with more than 2,500 local and regional governments committed to sustainable urban development.
The Mayor of Turku, Minna Arve, serves as the Vice-President of Global Portfolio Holder for Circular Development within the governance of the ICLEI network. As such, Turku plays a global role in supporting circular economy approaches in cities.
The city of Turku aims to inspire circular change across the world through its involvement in
The Turku region counts over 700 circular economy actors, including close to 300 businesses. These actors are already contributing to a more Circular Turku.
You can learn more about Turku’s existing circular economy efforts in the report:
Circular Turku: A blueprint for local governments to kick start the circular economy transition, by ICLEI and City of Turku.
The Circular Turku roadmap is unique in its approach:
The roadmap takes a systemic perspective to identify interventions that span the different roles a city can play in the circular economy transition using ICLEI´s Circular City Actions Framework and applying it to 5 thematic areas: Food, construction, mobility, energy, water.
It is the first circular economy roadmap to consider social equity by including a social risk assessment for each of the planned interventions.
Turku in 2029
Resource wisdom means sustainable use of natural resources, zero waste and zero emissions. Achieving these goals is a prerequisite for sustainable well-being in the Turku region. The circular economy provides a framework for concrete interventions that will lead the Turku region toward resource wisdom.
The Circular Turku project is a cooperation between the city of Turku, the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra, Finland Futures Research Center, Valonia and ICLEI - Local Government for Sustainability.
The Circular Turku project builds on four pillars:
Ambition: Turku and ICLEI are elevating the level of ambition of circularity in cities by focusing on the circular transition of infrastructures, city operations and services, businesses innovations and lifestyles.
Welcome to Luostarinmäki in 1827! Take a walk in a landscape lost in the Great Fire of 1827 and to the tides of time. Get to know a suburb of its time, Luostarinmäki’s history and Turku from 200 years ago.
Experience Luostarinmäki Klosterbacken 1827 on the website Digimuseo.fi. The panoramic views in 360 degrees can be seen in the browser on your smartphone, desktop computer or tablet. Concise info texts in pop up frames are available in English, Finnish and Swedish.
Luostarinmäki is the perfect destination for families: the houses and workshops tickle the imagination and take you on a time travel to days long gone. A visit to this outdoor museum is a day in one of Turku’s finest oases in the middle of the city. Welcome to stroll along the old alleys and streets of Turku!
Learn more listening to our audioguide
Listen to stories of Luostarinmäki based on the lives of historical people who once lived here. The stories are based on historical documents about these inhabitants.
Luostarinmäki Museum Quarters invites you to experience town life in bygone times and the history of Luostarinmäki. The museum offers lots to see for visitors of all ages.
The homes and workshops tell the stories of lives and work in Luostarinmäki and Turku in different times. We take on the perspective of inhabitants from different eras. In summer, you will meet craftsmen in the workshops and hosts in their daily chores.
In the summertime geranium and hot water plants grow on the windowsills in Luostarinmäki. In the flower beds you can find traditional Finnish perennial plants such as bleeding hearts, lychnis, columbine, common soapwort and various lilies.
You can still see remnants of the old rural self-sufficient lifestyle in the courtyards. There are useful plants still growing in the gardens such as potatoes, turnips, spices and herbs including horseradish and chives. You can also admire berry bushes and apple trees planted by former inhabitants on the museum grounds.
In 1827, after the Great Fire, architect C.L. Engel drafted a new city plan for Turku. The new city plan meant that the tightly packed houses of Luostarinmäki would be taken down, and in the beginning of the 1900s the city began to claim plots in the area. Some of the area’s oldest buildings were already making way for Sirkkalankatu street. At the same time, there was an ongoing debate on the value of Luostarinmäki as the embodiment of the pre-fire cityscape and life in Turku.
According to records, the very first residents of Luostarinmäki in the 1700s included a cobbler, sailors, plank carriers, packers and guards, along with their families. In the 1800s, many carpenters moved to the quarter. Their trade and skills enabled them to build their own house. Homeowners also built rooms for tenants to earn some extra income.
Luostarinmäki is the only continuous district of wooden houses that escaped the Great Fire of 1827 and has survived into our time. The houses, still standing in their original building sites, are more than 200 years old. Luostarinmäki used to be on the edge of town, where land was cheaper and more affordable to the craftsmen of lesser means who oftentimes moved here from the countryside. Many still upkept rural forms of life, resembling subsistence economy.
Visit Luostarinmäki Museum Shop next to the main gate. Here you will find unique gifts and souvenirs. The hand made products by the craftsmen working in the museum are also available here. Items range from traditional pottery to jewellery crafted by the silversmith.
The huckster’s is a mid-19th century style shop located in the museum area. Sweets wrapped in paper cones are a must!
Send a postcard from the museum’s post office. All mail will be stamped with a special post stamp.
Luostarinmäki is located on a stony slope on the south side of Vartiovuori Hill. Grounds are uneven and rough. There are steps leading to the interiors, and doorways are narrow. We ask wheelchair users to please visit the museum with a personal assistant if possible.
There are two disabled parking spots next to the museum gate.
Luostarinmäki is an outdoors museum neighbouring Vartiovuori Park near the centre of Turku. The museum consists of 14 houses with 80 interiors and five themed exhibitions.
The museum has a post office, where visitors may send postcards and letters all around the world. The museum shops have a large selection of handicrafts, books, sweets and high quality souvenirs.
Upon arrival, visitors will be provided with a map of the museum area.
Do you want to organize a street performance? Or book a place, for example, to sell handicrafts? Turku is offering a new way to use urban spaces by Event Carpets: specific areas marked on the pavement.
There are three bookable Event Carpet- spaces:
Multipass is just the right choice for you when you want to make the most of your visit to the Adventure Park. The 10-visit ticket offers discounted admission to the activity points and theatre performances in the park.
The Multipass is valid throughout the summer season, from 8 June to 3 August 2022, and it can be used by more than one person. You can buy the Multipass at the info point and in the Traffic Town. If you have a Kimmoke wristband, Multipass costs 20 euros. Remember to present your Kimmoke wristband when purchasing the Multipass.
The Adventure Park celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. The anniversary year programme is rich and varied and all events are listed below. Check out the offerings and come for a visit.
Birthday party 8 June 2022
The birthday of the Adventure Park opens the summer season, offering a full day’s programme and surprises for the whole family.
