Every year Jyväskylä celebrates its birthday on the 22nd of March. In year 2024 Jyväskylä turns 187 years old!

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Main library, 2nd floor

The Children's and Young Adults' Department is a place for learning and enjoyment. Whether you are looking for poetry, facts about the Vikings, music, comics or story books, we can help you! If you have to make a presentation, our staff will guide you in searching for information.

Instructions for the use of self-service libraries

You can access your own library with a library card and PIN code. You can get your PIN code by visiting one of the Keski libraries. You can also ask for the PIN code via the online library chat service.

The PIN code is the same as the one you use online to renew loans, at lending machines or when reading e-books or e-magazines from the Keski Libraries.

October 31 – December 10,2017

Eeero Järnefelt (1863–1937)
Under the Yoke (Burning the Brushwood) 
1893
Oil
Finnish National Gallery / Ateneum Art Museum

Until 6.1.2019 

Welcome to the Orava Family’s home from the 1960’s!

Visitors can roam around freely touching furniture and objects as they wish. You can also play the piano, draw, listen to the radio or flip through the family album.
How did cloths from the 60’s look and fell? All of the clothes, shoes and accessories left in the vestibule can be touched and tried on.
Just remember to respect the Orava family’s home, possessions and artwork.

1.2.–31.3. Gallery

The Charm of the Floating Island

Look at the sunset 
floating fire-islands move 
imperial over cream green seas. 
Islands on fire! Islands like torches! 
Islands on victory parade! 
- from "Landscape at Sunset", by Edith Södergran

Jyväskylä Art museum
1.2.–12.5.

Jyväskylä Art museum´s main exhibition in spring 2019 features painter Nanna Susi (b. 1967). Well known for her large and colourful paintings filled with emotional content, Susi is one of the most successful contemporary artists in Finland.

The retrospective exhibition Nanna Susi In the Moods includes paintings from the beginning of the artist´s career in the 1990s to the current day. The exhibition has been produced in cooperation between Salo Art Museum and Jyväskylä Art Museum.

Jan 21. -Mar 8. 2009

Jyväskylä Art Museum exhibits the work of six photographers -- Vincent Debanne (France), Luigi Gariglio (Italy), Ulrich Gebert (Germany), Tuomo Manninen (Finland), Xavier Ribas (Spain) and Tomoko Yoneda (UK) -- produced in 2006 as commissions for the Changing Faces/ WORK project.

Mar 10. – Apr 4. Holvi, The Lower Gallery

Airport is a community art project, which was planned and organized by the Siipeilijät (The Free-riders) volunteers, the Art Museum staff and Artists from Central Finland who are all involved in Magic of Flight exhibition.

This piece is part of the Jyväskylä Museums’ collective of events and exhibitions in Magic of Flight. 

8.12.2007 - 10.2.2008 Holvi

Carborundum is a printmaking technique that landed in Finland in the late 1980's, where the printmaking plate is painted with a mixture of glue and carborundum sand. My first works with this technique were prints made from thickly painted plates with undiluted paint. With time, the prints have become more delicate. Controlled coincidences frequent in my current work. I might think of a certain colour; the sodden chill conferred by an autumn storm, a beach gilded orange by the sun, a longing that paints the sky black...

28.11.2007 - 6.1.2008 Holvi

This autumn arrives with the 120th anniversary of Urho Lehtinen's (1887-1982) birth. We commemorate the artist by directing our gaze at his homestead and the images of his loved ones. His beloved atelier home, Pälvelä, and the beautiful houses and idyllic gardens of the Jyväskylä of his time were documented in his work. The blaze of the blooming garden of Pälvelä brought rich and vibrant colours into his work.
The artist's spouse, Anneli Lehtinen, and his granddaughter Outi Markkanen have participated in the making of the exhibition.

Apr 9.–May 31. Holvi, The Lower Gallery

Spanish painter Bartolomé Roca’s paintings are like colourful Spanish fans, which gradually open up to the eyes of the viewer, one sensation at a time – strong colours, abundant themes, movement and shifting forms. With careful observation, many newfound nuances and details rise to the surface and the complexity of the work is enhanced. At the same time, each and every painting breathes harmony into its own shapes and depths, and unites the exhibition as a whole.

Mar 19. – May 24. Holvi

Thoughts about flying have a strong aesthetic dimension. Bird’s ability to spread their wings and rise into the sky and people’s desire to follow are both abundantly described in romantic terms.

17 September – 24 October, Holvi

Artwork on light and shadow

"In our work we are interested in the combination of natural and artificial light along with shadows and darkness. In our sculptures, installations, and public artwork we study light in space: what does light represent, how do materials reflect light and how can we combine the functional and artistic in lighting?