Schools and preschools Welcome to the art museum! We offer guided tours and art workshops to school and daycare groups. You can also visit the museum in a group independently. We admit groups to the museum according to a staggered schedule. For this reason, we ask you to notify us of any group visits in advance. We are happy to help with any questions about the visits of school or daycare groups. Please contact us: hamvaraukset@hamhelsinki.fi or tel. +358 (0)9 310 87003. Instructions for museum visits We recommend preparing for a museum visit beforehand with your group. Have a look at the rules of the museum together with pupils. HAM’s rules Each exhibition has accompanying teaching materials that you can utilise with your group during an exhibition visit. We recommend having a look at the materials in advance. Teaching materials (available in Finnish) You can pick up writing pads at the ticket counter for completing assignments during the visit. Please note that you are only allowed to use pencils and coloured pencils in the exhibition facilities. School groups can eat their packed lunches at the end of the second floor lobby. When arriving at HAM Tennis Palace Enter Tennis Palace through the Eteläinen Rautatiekatu side. The entrance to HAM is located on the second floor of Tennis Palace. The easiest way to reach it is to take the escalator. Instruct your group to leave their outdoor clothes and bags in the cloakroom. Pick up admission stickers for your group at the ticket counter and pay for your reserved tour or workshop. If you have reserved a guided tour or an art workshop, someone at the ticket counter will guide you to your guide/instructor. If you want to do written assignments during the exhibition, you can pick up writing pads for your group at the ticket counter. Please note that you are only allowed to use pencils and coloured pencils in the exhibition facilities. School groups can eat their packed lunches in the lounge located at the end of the ticket counter lobby. Please make sure that the lobby is left clean. The teacher is responsible for their group during the visit, even during guided tours and workshops. Don’t hesitate to ask for help! The staff are happy to assist you. Guided tours for schoolchildren HAM offers affordable guided tours for comprehensive school, upper secondary school and vocational school pupils, which are ideal for helping your pupils get more out of their visit! We recommend reserving guided tours at least two weeks in advance. For groups consisting of small children, we recommend having more than one supervisor. Guided tours can also be tailored to suit special needs groups. The Girl Who Turned into a Rosebush (available 9.2. -29.9.2024) The Girl Who Turned into a Rosebush reflects on the practices of expressing and seeing. On the guided tour, we will explore the City of Helsinki’s art collection through six themes. By closely observing the artworks, attention is drawn to details that usually seem irrelevant. The exhibition features old and new works from the collection, executed with various media. Through dialogue and juxtaposition, they provide opportunities for new interpretations. Recommended age: 7th-9th graders, upper secondary and vocational school pupils BOOK HERE Tove Jansson: Juhlat maalla, 1947 (yksityiskohta). © Tove Janssonin kuolinpesä. Kuva: HAM / Hanna Kukorelli. Tove Jansson: Party and Play (available until 29.9.2024) On this tour, we will discover Tove Jansson’s party-themed frescos and the mural Play she implemented at the Aurora Children’s Hospital. Tove Jansson was a multitalented artist who is best known as the creator of the Moomins. Her public artworks provide new perspectives on the beloved artist. Recommended age: Pre-school, 1st–9th graders, upper secondary and vocational school pupils BOOK HERE Prices and more information Prices 2024€25 Who are eligible for school-priced workshops? School-priced workshops are available for groups of comprehensive school, upper secondary school and vocational school pupils in which at least half of the group members are under the age of 18. Admission to HAM is free of charge for under 18 year olds as well as teacher and school assistants accompanying teaching groups. Duration45 min TimesTue 10.00 am to 3 pm. Wed-Fri 11.30 am to 3 pm Group sizeThe workshop can accommodate 25 pupils at a time. If your group is larger than this, you will need two workshop instructors. LanguagesFinnish, Swedish, English. Packed lunchesSchool groups can eat their packed lunches at the end of HAM’s second floor. CancellationsIf you are unable to attend, please cancel your reservation no later than 7 days before the scheduled date (by phone or e-mail). Contact informationhamvaraukset@hamhelsinki.fi or tel. +358 (0)9 310 87003 Mon–Thu from 9 am to 12 pm and from 1 to 3 pm. Art workshops for schoolchildren and daycare groups HAM offers affordable workshops for daycare groups and comprehensive school, upper secondary school and vocational school pupils. With the help of an artist or art educator your pupils get more out of their visit! We recommend reserving workshops at least two weeks in advance. For groups consisting of small children, we recommend having more than one supervisor. Workshops can also be tailored to suit special needs groups. Colourful prints (available 8.3.-19.1.2025) In this workshop, we will make colourful art prints with an easy monotype technique. We will use soft gel printing plates and make patterns with various materials. Join this workshop to play with colours, forms, and surfaces. You will be surprised by the unique result! Recommended age: Pre-school, 1st–9th graders, upper secondary and vocational school pupils BOOK HERE Paint a fresco (available until 29.9.2024) This workshop is a crash course in the art of fresco painting. We examine the frescoes by Tove Jansson and make our own small-scale frescoes using plaster, coal and water-soluble colours. Recommended age: Pre-school, 1st–9th graders, upper secondary and vocational school pupils The workshop is associated with the following sections of the national curriculum: Art, History; Topics: L2 Cultural competence, interaction and expression BOOK HERE Striimaus paja kuvituskuva, 2021 ©HAM/Sonja Hyytiäinen The ABC of art: Mixing colours! (available until 31.5.2024) How are the different hues used in paintings created? What is a complementary colour? In this workshop we explore the paintings in HAM’s collections, learn to mix colours and study the colour wheel while working with acrylic paint. Recommended age:pre-school 1st–6th graders The art workshop is connected to the following parts of the national core curriculum: Visual arts, history, Finnish language and literature;Topics: L2 Cultural competence, interaction and expression BOOK HERE Prices and more information Prices 2024€35 Who are eligible for school-priced workshops? School-priced workshops are available for groups of comprehensive school, upper secondary school and vocational school pupils in which at least half of the group members are under the age of 18. Admission to HAM is free of charge for under 18 year olds as well as teacher and school assistants accompanying teaching groups. Duration1.5 hours TimesTue–Fri 9.30 am to 3 pmWorkshops end no later than 3 pm. Group sizeThe workshop can accommodate 24 pupils at a time. If your group is larger than this, you will need two workshop instructors. LanguagesFinnish, Swedish, English. Packed lunchesSchool groups can eat their packed lunches at the end of HAM’s second floor. CancellationsIf you are unable to attend, please cancel your reservation no later than 7 days before the scheduled date (by phone or e-mail). Contact informationhamvaraukset@hamhelsinki.fi or tel. +358 (0)9 310 87003 Mon–Thu from 9 am to 12 pm and from 1 to 3 pm.
