The City of Jyväskylä's Youth Services organizes youth work in different residential areas of Jyväskylä, where ten youth centres are located. In the youth centres, young people can meet friends, play games or just hang out. Group meetings, music clubs, theme days, and evening cafés are also a part of youth work in youth centres.

The Youth Art Workshop (Nuorten taidetyöpaja) provides work experience, activities, and guidance for young people who are without work or study.

The Craft Museum of Finland, The Museum of Central Finland and Jyväskylä Art Museum have put together a comprehensive package of online cultural experiences with something for everyone. See below for online exhibitions, glimpses into local gardens and food culture, information on national costumes and audio trails into the world of crafts.

Joint online exhibitions of Jyväskylä Museum Services

Landscape - Environment - Sketch

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The Craft Museum of Finland is a national museum of crafts and craftsmanship which includes The National Costume Center of Finland and The Conservation Centre. The museum preserves, maintains, stores and promotes Finnish craft culture, craft tradition, knowledge and skills. The museum's tasks include maintaining national registers of the museum collections of its speciality and cooperation between museums of the same speciality.

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The Pienmäki Farm Buildings Museum in Hankasalmi is a splendid place to visit in the summer. The path leading to the Pienmäki house takes you to the past and you will arrive to a unique yard lined with log houses. By popping into the house and the grain drying and threshing cabin known as riihi as well as by peeking into the sauna, the barns, stable, cart shed, and workshop you get a sense of the life there in the past. The activity corner of the cowshed offers small activities for the little ones.

In Vaajakoski, a small red cottage peeks out at the edge of a forest. As you go past it, perhaps you wonder what that small red-ochre painted log building was in the past. These days it is a working-class home museum, but initially it was a croft. Later, the house was inhabited by, among others, the Rautiainen family: father, mother, and seven children. During the summer, you can immerse yourself in the life that was lived there and listen to stories hidden inside the small log building. The house is no longer inhabited, but what is the bootjack then?

Coppersmith’s House and Carpenter’s House

In the centre of Jyväskylä there are no other residential buildings as old as the Coppersmith’s House and Carpenter’s House, which are located at the Toivola Old Courtyard. They were both built in the 1840s.

The Museum of Central Finland has ensured that you can easily pop by the houses all year round. They offer stories and old-time atmosphere, all for free. What on earth was the coppersmith doing in his house?

There is plenty to wonder about at the Museum of Municipal Engineering in the Könkkölä area of Jyväskylä. The museum displays over a thousand different interesting objects, equipment, and tools relating to the building of the city of Jyväskylä. In the museum you can find, among other things, the casings of an incendiary bomb that was dropped on Jyväskylä during the war, a Raket chainsaw, wooden pile drivers as well as a Torno Kaiser concrete mixer. You can also take a peek into an office hut and a men’s eating shelter.

When you step into this studio home and listen hard, you can hear the artist’s call: “Even though there is work to keep company with, there is often a longing for a proper human”. So welcome to the unique art-filled home of Jonas, Maikki, and Vappu Heiska! The over a hundred-year-old building, the objects, art, and photographs take you on a voyage through time and as part of the lives of the family of artists over the course of two generations.

The Studio Home of the Heiska Family is not accessible.

Updated on 27 March 2023

More than 45,000 Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s invasion have arrived in Finland since March 2022. There are currently about 2 650 Ukrainians in Central Finland, of which about 1 050 in Jyväskylä. This page contains information on what services are available for people fleeing the war in Ukraine and how you can help Ukrainians

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Culture for everyone!

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Gallery 21.1.–20.2.2022

Sami Ala, Pertti Karjalainen, Piia Myllyselkä, Johanna Mäkitalo, Minja Revonkorpi, Riitta Uusitalo

Art Museum’s Gallery will be filled with colour in a series of three exhibitions organized in cooperation with Jyväskylä Artists’ Association. The series will start on 21.1.2022 with Hungry for Yellow, an exhibition featuring artwork by the Artists’ Association members. The exhibitions are curated by Lic.Phil., Art Historian Marjo-Riitta Simpanen.

Jyväskylä Art Museum 21.1.–8.5.2021

Petri Ala-Maunus (b.1970) is well-known for his landscape paintings, which, at a first glance, look like romantic pastoral scenes from the 19th century. In his paintings, the majestic scenes have become larger and more impressive than reality. The works, executed with great attention to detail, have a distinctive colour palette, sometimes limited to three or four tones, sometimes even to just black and white.