SATISFY YOUR CULTURE CRAVINGS

The genre-busting Helsinki Central Library Oodi dazzles with an art-house cinema, recording studio, and a massive book collection with Finnish, English and Swedish titles. In 2019, the International Federation of Library Associations named Oodi the world’s best new public library. For art buffs, the new Amos Rex Art Museum offers rotating modern exhibitions as surreal as the skylit domes atop its subterranean gallery. The Ateneum, Finland’s national art gallery, is unmissable, from Victor Westerholm’s pastoral landscapes to Akseli Gallen-kallela’s Finnish mythology paintings.

FUN FACT

Finland boasts the world’s highest per-capita number of heavy metal bands.