Espoo Day at Pentala Archipelago Museum: Venetsialaiset

Mies soittaa huuliharppua ja nainen soittaa haitaria. — Saaristomuseo Pentalan venetsialaisissa nähdään Jouko Kyhälän ja Maria Kalaniemen konsertti.Photo: JuuriJuhla Klubi

Time

Sat 29.8.2026 EET/EEST10.30–17.00 EET/EEST

Location

Pentala 44, 02380 Espoo

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Languages

English, Finnish, Swedish

Price

Free entry

Organizer

KAMU Espoo city museum

Additional information

espoo.fi

Welcome to celebrate Espoo Day at Pentala Archipelago Museum with a Venetian-style event marking the end of the boating and summer cottage season.

On Espoo Day, the Archipelago Museum offers folk music, a pasture visit, and short visits to the Gurlin House home museum. Free admission to the museum and all activities throughout the day.

Day’s programme:

10:30–11:00 Feeding the sheep

12:00–14:00 Short visits to the Gurlin House home museum

14:00–15:00 JuuriJuhla concert: Maria Kalaniemi and Juho Kyhälä perform

15:00–16:00 Short visits to the Gurlin House home museum

15:30–16:00 Visit to the sheep pasture

Note! The programme is in Finnish.

Espoo Day JuuriJuhla Club: Maria Kalaniemi & Jouko Kyhälä:

Espoo-based folk music and timeless atmospheres in the embrace of the archipelago at Pentala Archipelago Museum on Espoo Day. The concert is a requested repeat from last summer! It will be held in the atmospheric Fisherman’s Cottage.

Maria Kalaniemi, an accordion artist from Espoo, is an internationally acclaimed top-level musician and a talented, distinctive composer. She has developed a highly personal style drawing from numerous musical traditions. Her lyrically sensitive and intense playing has gained a devoted audience around the world. The archipelago is close to her heart. In 2024, she celebrated her 60th anniversary.

Jouko Kyhälä, a harmonica player and Doctor of Music from Kirkkonummi, is among the leading professional folk musicians in Finland. He has led the world-renowned Sväng harmonica quartet for over 20 years, and has also had an extensive career as a solo performer and as a composer for theatre, film music, and contemporary dance. Kyhälä has played in over 20 ensembles and appeared on dozens of recordings across all genres. His musical roots, however, lie in folk music. His guiding principles are a connection to nature and a love of life.

This Espoo Day concert is produced in collaboration by JuuriJuhla-RotFest and Pentala Archipelago Museum.

Fisherman’s Cottage, Pentala Archipelago Museum, Espoo

Free admission

The route to the main entrance

The route to the entrance is guided, smooth and sufficiently wide and illuminated.
There is a steep slope on the passage.

The main entrance

The entrance is hard to perceive but illuminated
In connection with the entrance, there are at least 4 steps, with handrails on one side.
The entrance has a ramp over 6 meters long with an intermediate landing, with handrails on both sides.
The doors connected to the entrance stand out clearly. The door is heavy or otherwise hard to open.
The entrance has thresholds over 2 cm high.

In the facility

The customer service point is on the entrance floor.
The customer service point has thresholds over 2 cm high.
The doors in the customer service point stand out clearly.
The waiting room of the customer service point has no queue number system. The customers wait standing up.