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What is Finland’s best museum? And how would you even define that? Could the most popular be the best? Visitor numbers are at least the most objective metric, so let’s set aside the old joke about a billion flies and trust in the power of numbers.
Museum visitor numbers are compiled by the Museum Card, a year-long ticket that gives holders access to hundreds of museums across the country. With that metric, the most visited museum in Finland in 2025 was the Ateneum Art Museum in Helsinki.
Ateneum has held the number one spot in previous years as well. That’s no surprise, as Ateneum attracts visitors year after year with both its magnificent permanent collection of Finnish art and its changing major exhibitions.
In second place came Amos Rex, and in third place the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma. Both museums, located in Helsinki, shine with their well-curated rotating exhibitions and often compete with each other year after year for second and third place. Over the past year, visitors have been drawn to Amos Rex by exhibitions such as the Leandro Erlich show pictured above, where the audience becomes part of the artwork through installations that feel like visual sleights of hand (the exhibition is open until 6th April 2026).
There has tended to be more annual variation in the fourth place. In 2025, that position was taken by the Didrichsen Art Museum, celebrating its anniversary year, thanks to the hugely popular Särestöniemi exhibition.
Fifth place was claimed by the Helsinki Art Museum HAM, which featured, among other exhibitions, a fine show about Moomins creator Tove Jansson.
READ MORE: Helsinki’s Best Museums
But of course there are museums outside the capital too! In sixth place was Vapriikki Museum Centre in Tampere. The most popular museum in Turku was the Turku Art Museum. The visual arts museum Malva in Lahti reached 16th place.
From outside the major cities, the splendid art museum in Mänttä also made it into the top 20 most popular museums – today known as Serlachius Manor.
READ MORE: Top Exhibitions in Tampere in 2026
1 Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki
2 Amos Rex, Helsinki
3 Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
4 Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki
5 HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki
6 Vapriikki Museum Centre, Tampere
7 Heureka – Finnish Science Centre, Vantaa
8 LUOMUS – Natural History Museum, Helsinki
9 Exhibition Centre WeeGee, Espoo
10 Architecture & Design Museum, Helsinki
11 Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helsinki
12 Tampere Art Museum, Tampere
13 Turku Art Museum, Turku
14 Helsinki Art Hall, Helsinki
15 Hakasalmi Villa, Helsinki
16 Lahti Museum of Visual Arts MALVA, Lahti
17 Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere
18 Ars Nova, Turku
19 LUOMUS – Kaisaniemi Botanical Garden, Helsinki
20 Serlachius Manor, Mänttä
21 Aboa Vetus, Turku
22 Moomin Museum, Tampere
23 Turku Castle, Turku
24 Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
25 Villa Gyllenberg, Helsinki
26 Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimäki
27 Gallen-Kallela Museum, Espoo
28 Maritime Centre Vellamo, Kotka
29 Museo Leikki, Espoo
30 Museo Milavida, Tampere
31 Halosenniemi, Tuusula
32 Chappe, Raseborg
33 Forum Marinum, Turku
34 Aalto2, Jyväskylä
35 TAHTO – Sports and Exercise Culture Centre, Helsinki
36 Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä
37 Häme Castle, Hämeenlinna
38 Salo Art Museum Veturitalli, Salo
39 University of Turku Botanical Garden, Turku
40 Ainola, Järvenpää
41 Kuopio Museum, Kuopio
42 KUMMA, Kuopio
43 Theatre Museum, Helsinki
44 Museum of Technology, Helsinki
45 Memory – Centre for War and Peace, Mikkeli
46 Finnish Aviation Museum, Vantaa
47 Serlachius Main Building, Mänttä
48 The Craft Museum of Finland, Jyväskylä
49 Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Hämeenlinna
50 Satakunta Museum, Pori