Helsinki City Museum

This guide to Helsinki City Museum starts underneath your feet, in the stone cellars where a merchant named Johan Sederholm once stored cargo bound for his own ships. Built in seventeen fifty-seven, his stone house was a rarity in a city that mostly built in wood, and it has outlasted every timber neighbor around it. You'll hear how a counting house meant for ledgers and sea trade became something its builder never imagined. Listen for the marine corner built low to the ground for the smallest visitors.