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Tehtaankatu 23 A
11910 Riihimäki
The Finnish Wilderness Heritage museum is the leading information center and service institution on its field in Finland. The mission of the museum is to collect, study, preserve, and to display Finnish wilderness heritage culture, past and present.
The museum operations include a library and an archive serving researchers and public. Every year the museum offers multiple exhibitions and events for local and national audiences.
The Finnish Hunting Museum was founded by the Finnish Hunters’ Association in 1930, but the museum was not opened in Porvoo until 1972. In the spring of 1990, the museum moved to a new building built by the city of Riihimäki.
The Finnish Hunting Museum Association is responsible for the museum’s operations. The association’s membership includes individual members in addition to national hunting organizations. The museum’s operations are mainly financed by fees collected from hunting permits and funding from the Ministry of Education and Culture.
In 2026, the museum changed its name to The Finnish Wilderness Heritage Museum.
The permanent exhibition of the museum presents a general overview of the ten thousand year-old history of Finnish hunting – the period during which hunting developed from a means of earning one’s living to a free time activity.
Each year, the Hunting Museum of Finland produces one to two traveling exhibitions which are first displayed in the museum and then offered for display to other museums, nature centers and cultural organizations. Besides the self-made exhibitions, the museum hosts yearly several traveling exhibitions produced by other institutions.
A virtual tour in the museum is available. Exhibitions were photographed in summer 2019. https://360.northmanvr.com/F1eKRio8TW/9663150p&192.45h&90.04t
The collections include over 20 000 hunting related artifacts and nearly 170 000 photographs. The library has probably the widest collection of hunting related books and magazines in Scandinavia. Besides in Finnish, a large amount of books in Swedish and also in English are included in the library collection. The archive holds significant organizational archives such as the Archive of the Finnish Hunters’ Association and the Archive of the Game Preservation Foundation of Finland. The archive also collects files of private hunting clubs and persons.
Original image © Jukka Kemppinen.
We provide programs for young people that build motivation, so I decided to arrange a party for them Everything went smoothly, and all the kids were very much excited!
My girl loves this place! I have heard so many positive things about the arts and when we finally arrived here, it all happened to be true! Thank you for the amazing works!
We provide programs for young people that build motivation, so I decided to arrange a party for them Everything went smoothly, and all the kids were very much excited!
We provide programs for young people that build motivation, so I decided to arrange a party for them Everything went smoothly, and all the kids were very much excited!
My girl loves this place! I have heard so many positive things about the arts and when we finally arrived here, it all happened to be true! Thank you for the amazing works!
My girl loves this place! I have heard so many positive things about the arts and when we finally arrived here, it all happened to be true! Thank you for the amazing works!
Suomen Erä- ja metsästysmuseon ja Suomen lasimuseon yhteinen Joulutori-tapahtuma järjestetään lauantaina 21.11.2026 klo 10-15. Joulutori kerää satapäisen yleisön Riihimäen museokeskittymään. Jos haluat
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