Workshops are organised during the museum’s opening hours from Tuesday to Friday; at other times by prior arrangement. The workshop booking is confirmed subject to availability.
Aalto2 Workshops for Groups
Come and try things out and learn through experience at the Alvar Aalto Museum
The Alvar Aalto Museum offers themed workshops for both adult and children’s groups. Come and celebrate a birthday or simply enjoy a fun and inspiring workshop session with your group or friends. The workshops provide an engaging and enjoyable introduction to architecture, design and model-making.
You can choose from ready-designed workshop packages, but alternative workshop content can also be tailored to suit the client’s interests and specific needs. Each participant may take their completed work home at the end of the session.
The workshop package includes a themed guided tour of the AALTO – Work and Life exhibition, as well as workshop instruction with materials in the Kulma workshop space. When booking, you may also enquire about the possibility of coffee service from Aalto2 Café.
Workshops are organised during the museum’s opening hours from Tuesday to Friday, and at other times by agreement. The duration of a workshop package is 1.5–2 hours. The maximum group size is 20 participants for adult workshops and 16 participants for children’s workshops.
Workshops must be booked at least two weeks in advance to allow us to prepare the best possible experience. A workshop may be cancelled up to one week before the reserved date. Booked workshops will be charged if they are not cancelled within the stated time limit.
The price includes: a guided exhibition tour, workshop instruction, materials, admission tickets and VAT.
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The Museum also holds open public workshops to accompany events and changing exhibitions. Current public workshops are listed on the Aalto2 events page.
You can make a reservation through the form located at the bottom of the page.
Workshops for adults
Workshops are held during the museum’s opening hours from Tuesday to Friday; at other times by prior arrangement. All workshop bookings are subject to availability and will be confirmed accordingly.
Duration: 1.5–2 hours
Price: from €40 per person (minimum charge for 10 participants).
Group size: maximum 20 participants.
Dreams in Miniature - Room of Your Dreams
Discover the scale models of residential buildings and interiors in the exhibition, with a special focus on Aino Aalto’s designs. Furniture, lighting and other interior elements also take centre stage.
Inspired by the exhibition, participants will create a miniature room model in the workshop space, where imagination can truly come to life. Design and furnish the space according to your own taste, using furniture, textiles and other decorative elements.
Dreams in Miniature - In the World of Design, Mastering the Classics
Explore the Aaltos’ designs, such as glassware, light fittings and furniture. Design and make your own new design product – a future classic. The range of available materials is attractive, diverse, and plentiful, so there is lots of room for creativity. Choose a material you like and shape it into a miniature classic.
Architecture and Nature
Explore the exhibition with an emphasis on the special connection between Aalto’s architecture and nature and its elements. Consider how the buildings fit into their surroundings and how nature and organic forms have served as starting points for Aalto’s architectural design. In the workshop space: you design and make a scale model of a building based on your insights. You use various natural materials for your construction.
Workshops for Children
Duration: 1.5–2 hours
Prices from: €230
Group size: max. 16 persons
Children’s workshops are best suited for those aged 6 and over and offer a fun way to celebrate, for example, a birthday party. At least one adult responsible for the children must be present throughout the session.
Sweet Town
Explore the Museum building and the shapes, materials, proportions and structures of the exhibits from various angles using your different senses. In the workshop space: you assemble houses, libraries, factories and other city buildings. You make them out of sweets, biscuits, and cocktail sticks using what you have learned on your exhibition tour.
Villa Mairea’s residents
We view and study a scale model of the Alvar Aalto-designed Villa Mairea. Together we imagine the people who live in the house and their lives there, and invent stories about them. In the workshop space: you build a one-room scale model for the people in our story – the residents of the house. The diverse materials add motivation and encourage play.
Feel the Chair
We explore the exhibition space looking for different chair models designed by Aino and Alvar Aalto. Examine the structures, materials and shapes of the chairs and devise your own miniature chair. Based on your design, in the workshop you create your own chair model and show it to the others. What kind of chair would be really good to sit on? What would your favourite chair be like?