The Museum Ett Hem Opens for the Summer Season on 2 May
The museum Ett Hem, located at Piispankatu 14, Turku.
The museum Ett Hem will open for the summer season on Saturday, 2 May. Visitors are invited to step into an upper-class home from the turn of the 20th century, where the original interiors have been carefully preserved. The museum can be explored independently or as part of one of the daily guided tours in Finnish.
The museum presents the home of the spouses Alfred and Hélène Jacobsson, showcasing original furnishings, artworks and everyday objects. The collections include textiles, porcelain and works by prominent artists such as Albert Edelfelt, Helene Schjerfbeck, Elin Danielson-Gambogi and Victor Westerholm. The Jacobssons donated their home to the Åbo Akademi University Foundation with the wish that it be preserved as a museum called Ett Hem.
Guided tours in Finnish are offered daily at 11.15 and 14.15. In July and August, tours are also offered in Swedish on Saturdays and in English on Sundays, both at 13.15. All guided tours are included in the admission fee.
A new digital information screen has been installed in the museum’s porcelain room, offering deeper insight into the Jacobsson family and objects that cannot otherwise be displayed.
– The screen allows us to present material that has not previously been accessible to visitors. One example is Hélène Jacobsson’s silk dress from the couple’s golden anniversary in 1927, which has been 3D-scanned. It is too fragile to be exhibited, but in this way, visitors can still experience it, says museum curator Maria Solin.
New for the season is a museum pass valid across the foundation’s three museums. Visitors who collect a stamp from each museum – Ett Hem, the Sibelius Museum and Casa Haartman – will receive a gift.
The museum Ett Hem is open during the summer season and at Christmas. When the museum is closed, ongoing work takes place behind the scenes to conserve, document and digitise the collections for the future. During the spring, parts of the museum’s photographic archive have been digitised and will be published in the Finnish national Finna search service in May.
– Visitor feedback over the past year has once again been excellent. We achieved an average rating of 9.7 out of 10 in our own customer satisfaction survey, and 4 out of 5 in the Museum Card survey. We now look forward to welcoming both returning and new visitors, says Solin.
More information is available at www.etthem.fi.
Welcome to the museum Ett Hem!
For more information, please contact:
Maria Solin, Museum Curator
Phone: +358 50 306 0998
Email: maria.solin@stiftelsenabo.fi
Ett Hem Museum, Piispankatu 14, Turku
Bookings:
Email: etthem@stiftelsenabo.fi
Phone: +358 50 363 2982
Opening Hours:
2 May – 1 October 2026
Wednesday to Sunday, 11.00 – 16.00
Private group visits can be arranged outside regular hours.
