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. HAM Helsinki Art Museum’s Helsinki Biennial (available 12.6.2023-22.10.2023) At HAM’s Helsinki Biennial tour, you will explore artworks on display at HAM and hear more about the artists and the artworks’ themes related to the sea. Recommended age: 1st–9th graders, upper secondary and vocational school pupils BOOK HERE Antti Vuori: Kevätlaitumelle/Ut på vårbete/To Spring Pasture, 1975. © HAM/Yehia Eweis To Spring Pasture (available 14.4.2023-14.1.2024) The focus in all stages of HAM’s To Spring Pasture art exhibition’s planning process has been on children. The youngest viewers are considered in the exhibition architecture with unique, playful solutions, and the exhibition will be experienced without shoes. Fairy tale-like elements and story-based imaginary content connect the works of the exhibition. To Spring Pasture is based on the Bäcksbacka collections. Recommended age: pre-primary education, 1st–6th graders BOOK HERE 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. Microscopic views with plant-based paints In this workshop, we will explore microscopic views and paint them with ink pencils and plant-based paints. Recommended age: 1st–9th graders, upper secondary and vocational school pupils BOOK HERE Antti Vuori: Kevätlaitumelle/Ut på vårbete/To Spring Pasture, 1975. © HAM/Yehia Eweis Let’s paint a creature Colours, fairy tale–like elements, and story-based imaginary content are depicted in the To Spring Pasture exhibition’s works. In the workshop, we explore paintings through the stories they tell us. Everyone will create a playful creature of their own and then ponder on where they might live. We will paint with gouache. Recommended age: preschool and grades 1–6 BOOK HERE © HAM/Maija Toivanen Paint a fresco 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! 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: 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 2023€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.
