News 18 Dec 2015
Snow, Lapland and architecture interest foreigners in Finland
Over one-half of the museum visits at the Sami Museum Siida in Inari and at the Provincial Museum of Lapland in Rovaniemi were made by foreigners in 2014. A share of over 40 per cent of foreigners was exceeded by the Alvar Aalto Museum operating in Helsinki and Jyväskylä, the Gold Prospector Museum in Sodankylä, and the Museum of Finnish Architecture and the Mannerheim Museum in Helsinki.
Visits to museums where the share of foreigners was highest in 2014
Finland's full-time museums recorded over half a million visits by foreigners in 2014, which is nearly ten per cent of all museum visits. The actual number of visits by foreigners is higher because not even all large museums, like the Finnish National Gallery, record foreign visitors separately. The sum does not include museums located in Åland either, which have plenty of visitors from Sweden.
In absolute numbers, most foreign visits, over 82,000, were made to the museum sites of the National Museum of Finland.
Among other cultural attractions, the share of foreigners was highest in the Sampo icebreaker in Kemi, over 95 per cent, the Fortress of Suomenlinna, 57 per cent, and the SnowCastle in Kemi, 40 per cent.
These data derive from Statistics Finland's table package on cultural statistics. The free electronic table service replaces the printed Cultural Statistics publication. The tables are updated four times per year and analysing articles are published in connection with the tables. The tables are in Finnish and English, and the articles in Finnish.
Cultural statistics table service
Home page of Cultural Statistics
The table: Visits to certain Finnish cultural attractions in 2014
Further information: Jukka Ekholm +358 29 551 3370, Kaisa Weckström +358 29 551 2348, kulttuuri.tilastokeskus@stat.fi