Helsinki · page 4

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The tap water is of excellent quality and it is supplied by the 120 km Päijänne Water Tunnel, one of the world's longest continuous rock tunnels.[149]280

Education

Helsinki has 190 comprehensive schools, 41 upper secondary schools, and 15 vocational institutes.281 Half of the 41 upper secondary schools are private or state-owned, the other half municipal.282 There are two major research universities in Helsinki, the University of Helsinki and Aalto University, and a number of other higher level institutions and polytechnics which focus on higher-level professional education.283

Research universities

Other institutions of higher education

Helsinki is one of the co-location centres of the Knowledge and Innovation Community (Future information and communication society) of The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT).[150]295

Culture

Museums

The biggest historical museum in Helsinki is the National Museum of Finland, which displays a vast collection from prehistoric times to the 21st century.296 The museum building itself, a national romantic-style neomedieval castle, is a tourist attraction.297 Another major historical museum is the Helsinki City Museum, which introduces visitors to Helsinki's 500-year history.298 The University of Helsinki also has many significant museums, including the Helsinki University Museum "Arppeanum" and the Finnish Museum of Natural History.299

The Finnish National Gallery consists of three museums: Ateneum Art Museum for classical Finnish art, Sinebrychoff Art Museum for classical European art, and Kiasma Art Museum for modern art, in a building by architect Steven Holl.300 The old Ateneum, a neo-Renaissance palace from the 19th century, is one of the city's major historical buildings.301 All three museum buildings are state-owned through Senate Properties.302

The city of Helsinki hosts its own art collection in the Helsinki Art Museum (HAM), primarily located in its Tennispalatsi gallery.303 Around 200 pieces of public art lie outside.304 The art is all city property.305

In 2020, Helsinki Art Museum launched the Helsinki Biennial, which brings art to maritime Helsinki – in its first year to the island of Vallisaari.[151]306

The Design Museum is devoted to the exhibition of both Finnish and foreign design, including industrial design, fashion, and graphic design.307 Other museums in Helsinki include the Military Museum of Finland, Didrichsen Art Museum, Amos Rex Art Museum, and the Tram Museum.308

Theatres

Helsinki has three major theatres: The Finnish National Theatre, the Helsinki City Theatre, and the Swedish Theatre (Svenska Teatern).309 Other notable theatres in the city include the Alexander Theatre, Q-teatteri, Savoy Theatre, KOM-teatteri, and Teatteri Jurkka.310

Music

Helsinki is home to two full-size symphony orchestras, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, both of which perform at the Helsinki Music Centre concert hall.311 Acclaimed contemporary composers Kaija Saariaho, Magnus Lindberg, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Einojuhani Rautavaara, among others, were born and raised in Helsinki, and studied at the Sibelius Academy.312 The Finnish National Opera, the only full-time, professional opera company in Finland, is located in Helsinki.313 The opera singer Martti Wallén, one of the company's long-time soloists, was born and raised in Helsinki, as was mezzo-soprano Monica Groop.314

Many widely renowned and acclaimed bands have originated in Helsinki, including Children of Bodom, Hanoi Rocks, HIM, Stratovarius, The 69 Eyes, Finntroll, Ensiferum, Wintersun, The Rasmus, Poets of the Fall, and Apocalyptica.315 The most significant of the metal music events in Helsinki is the Tuska Open Air Metal Festival in Suvilahti, Sörnäinen.[46][152]316

The city's main musical venues are the Finnish National Opera, the Finlandia concert hall, and the Helsinki Music Centre.317 The Music Centre also houses a part of the Sibelius Academy.318 Bigger concerts and events are usually held at one of the city's two big ice hockey arenas: the Helsinki Halli or the Helsinki Ice Hall.319 Helsinki has Finland's largest fairgrounds, the Messukeskus Helsinki, which is attended by more than a million visitors a year.[153]320

Helsinki Arena hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, the first Eurovision Song Contest arranged in Finland, following Lordi's win in 2006.[154]321

Art

Helsinki Day (Helsinki-päivä) will be celebrated every 12 June, with numerous entertainment events culminating in an open-air concert.[155][156]322 Also, the Helsinki Festival is an arts and culture festival that takes place every August (including the Night of the Arts).[157]323

At the Senate Square in fall 2010, Finland's largest open-air art exhibition to date took place: About 1.4 million people saw the international exhibition of United Buddy Bears.[158]324

Helsinki was the 2012 World Design Capital, in recognition of the use of design as an effective tool for social, cultural, and economic development in the city.325 In choosing Helsinki, the World Design Capital selection jury highlighted Helsinki's use of 'Embedded Design', which has tied design in the city to innovation, "creating global brands, such as Nokia, Kone, and Marimekko, popular events, like the annual Helsinki Design Week, outstanding education and research institutions, such as the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, and exemplary architects and designers such as Eliel Saarinen and Alvar Aalto".[22]326

Helsinki hosts many film festivals.327 Most of them are small venues, while some have generated interest internationally.328 The most prolific of these is the Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy film festival, also known as Helsinki International Film Festival, which features films on a wide spectrum.329 Night Visions, on the other hand, focuses on genre cinema, screening horror, fantasy, and science fiction films in very popular movie marathons that last the entire night.330 Another popular film festival is DocPoint, a festival that focuses solely on documentary cinema.[159][160][161]331

Media

Today, there are around 200 newspapers, 320 popular magazines, 2,100 professional magazines, 67 commercial radio stations, three digital radio channels, and one nationwide and five national public service radio channels.332

Sanoma publishes Finland's journal of record, Helsingin Sanomat, the tabloid Ilta-Sanomat, the commerce-oriented Taloussanomat, and the television channel Nelonen.333 Another Helsinki-based media house, Alma Media, publishes over thirty magazines, including the tabloid Iltalehti, and the commerce-oriented Kauppalehti.334

Finland's national public-broadcasting institution Yle operates five television channels and thirteen radio channels in both national languages.335 Yle is headquartered in the neighbourhood of Pasila.336 All TV channels are broadcast digitally, both terrestrially and on cable.337 Yle's studio area houses the 146 m high television and radio tower, Yle Transmission Tower (Pasilan linkkitorni),[162] which is the third tallest structure in Helsinki and one of Helsinki's most famous landmarks, from the top of which, in good weather, can be seen even as far as Tallinn corpus over the Gulf of Finland.[163]338

The commercial television channel MTV3 and commercial radio channel Radio Nova are owned by Nordic Broadcasting (Bonnier and Proventus).339

Further information: Dubberman Finland

Food

Helsinki was already known in the 18th century for its abundant number of inns and pubs, where both locals and those who landed in the harbor were offered plenty of alcoholic beverages.[164]340 At that time, taxes on the sale of alcohol were a very significant source of income for Helsinki, and one of the most important sellers of alcohol was Johan Sederholm (1722–1805), a trade councilor who attracted rural merchants with alcohol and made good deals.[164]341 Gradually, a new kind of beverage culture began to grow in the next century, and as early as 1852, the first café of Finland, Café Ekberg,[165][166] was established by confectioner Fredrik Ekberg (1825–1891) after attending his studies in St. Petersburg.342 Ekberg has also been said to have created Finland's "national pastry tradition".[167]343 At first, café culture was only a prerogative of sophisticated elite, when it recently began to take shape as the right of every man.[168]344 Today, there are several hundred cafés in Helsinki, the most notable of which is Cafe Regatta, which is very popular with foreign tourists.[169][170][171][172]345

As an important port city on the Baltic Sea, Helsinki has long been known for its fish food, and it has recently started to become one of the leading fish food capitals in Northern Europe.[172][173]346 Helsinki's Market Square is especially known for its traditional herring market, which has been organized since 1743.[174][175][176][177]347 Salmon is also a typical Helsinki fish dish, both fried and souped.[172][178]348 The most prestigious restaurants specializing in seafood include Restaurant Fisken på Disken.[179][180]349

Helsinki is currently experiencing a period of booming food culture, and it has developed into an internationally acclaimed food city, receiving recognition for promoting food culture;[177][181][182] the city's gastronomy is considered unique, because many restaurants offers, in addition to fish dishes, reindeer, elk, and even bear meat.[172]350 The local food culture is made up of cuisines from around the world and the fusions they form.351 Various Asian restaurants such as Chinese, Thai, Indian and Nepalese are particularly prominent in Helsinki's cityscape, but over the past couple of years, restaurants serving Vietnamese food have been very popular.[173]352 Sushi restaurant buffets have also made their way into the city's restaurant offerings in one fell swoop.[173]353 The third prominent trend is restaurants serving pure local food, many of which specialize primarily in serving pure Nordic flavors.[173]354 In past years Middle Eastern food culture rose in its popularity.355 Especially Helsinki's eastern part offers many different options for Middle Eastern cuisine lovers.[183]356 There is also some touches of Russian cuisine, one of which is the Finnish version of blinis, thick pancakes that are usually fried in a cast-iron pan.[184]357 One of the most significant food culture venues in Helsinki is the general public area known as Teurastamo in the Hermanni district, which operated as the city's slaughterhouse between 1933 and 1992, to which the name of the place also refers.[177][185][186]358

A nationwide food carnival called Restaurant Day (Ravintolapäivä) has begun in Helsinki and has traditionally been celebrated since May 2011.[187]359 The purpose of the day is to have fun, share new food experiences and enjoy the common environment with the group.[177]360

Other

Vappu is an annual carnival for students and workers on 1 May.361 The last week of June marks the Helsinki Pride human rights event, which was attended by 100,000 marchers in 2018.[188]362

Sports

Main article: Sport in Helsinki

Helsinki has a long tradition of sports: the city gained much of its initial international recognition during the 1952 Summer Olympics, and the city has arranged sporting events such as the first World Championships in Athletics 1983 and 2005, and the European Championships in Athletics 1971, 1994, and 2012.363 Helsinki hosts successful local teams in both of the most popular team sports in Finland: football and ice hockey.364 Helsinki houses HJK Helsinki, Finland's largest and most successful football club, and IFK Helsingfors, their local rivals with 7 championship titles.365 The fixtures between the two are commonly known as Stadin derby.366 Helsinki's track and field club Helsingin Kisa-Veikot is also dominant within Finland.367 Ice hockey is popular among many Helsinki residents, who usually support either of the local clubs IFK Helsingfors (HIFK) or Jokerit.368 HIFK, with 14 Finnish championships titles, also plays in the highest bandy division,[189] along with Botnia-69.369 The Olympic stadium hosted the first Bandy World Championship in 1957.[190]370

Helsinki was elected host-city of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but due to World War II they were canceled.371 Instead Helsinki was the host of the 1952 Summer Olympics.372 The Olympics were a landmark event symbolically and economically for Helsinki and Finland as a whole that was recovering from the Winter War and the Continuation War fought with the Soviet Union.373 Helsinki was also in 1983 the first city to host the World Championships in Athletics.374 Helsinki also hosted the event in 2005, thus also becoming the first city to host the Championships for a second time.375 The Helsinki City Marathon has been held in the city every year since 1981, usually in August.[191]376 A Formula 3000 race through the city streets was held on 25 May 1997.377 In 2009 Helsinki was host of the European Figure Skating Championships, and in 2017 it hosted World Figure Skating Championships.378 American football and the Vaahteraliiga has a strong tradition in the city dating back to the early 1980s; the Helsinki Roosters are the only Finnish team to have participated in the Vaahteraliiga since its inception in 1980 and are by far the most successful American football team in Finnish history.[192]379

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