Hotel and Restaurant Museum

This guide to the Hotel and Restaurant Museum in Helsinki opens with the Cable Factory's scheduled closing date at the end of 1990, and the nearly one thousand people quietly living and working inside it who were never actually hired. It follows the painters, potters and photographers who let themselves in through unlocked doors and broken windows starting in 1987, squatting in what was once the largest building in Finland while the city planned to eventually tear it down. You'll hear about Pro Kaapeli, the association they formed to make their case to the very city that owned the land. Look at the raw brick and factory windows around you, none of it built with a museum in mind.