Museum Sundays Special: Suomenlinna & picnic
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Suomenlinna is a UNESCO World Heritage site and a classic summer picnic location only 15 minute ferry ride away from downtown Helsinki. Join us for a tour of the island, and if feeling up for it, check out the various museums located around the island where both the Museum Card and the Helsinki Card grant free entry. There's no pre-planned route or destination — instead we'll take a walk around the fortress ruins and pop in wherever we're feeling up for it. Afterwards we'll settle in a park somewhere nearby for food and drinks.
Possible stops include:
- Sotamuseo Maneesi (just opened a new exhibition showing WWII era soviet war propaganda)
- Suomenlinna museum (recently opened a new exhibition showing handcrafted Finnish glass)
- Submarine Vesikko (WWII era submarine so we can imagine what it would feel like having a panic attack after being sunk to the bottom of the sea in a tin can)
- Ehrensvärd museum (gawk at how a bunch of rich people lived in the 1700s)
- Customs museum (crazy things that have been forbidden from being imported and the crazy ways that crazy people tried to get around that prohibition)
We'll get together at the Kauppatori ferry terminal before passing over to the island. Once there, I'll share my location via GPS and everyone's free to tag along for the museum tour or simply take a walk around the island and take in the sights.