The Museum of Technology is located in the historic district of Helsinki – the Old Town, on a small island where King Gustav I Vasa of Sweden built the administrative center of the city he founded in 1550. Since then, enterprises using water power for their needs were located on the banks of the Vantaa River. The three buildings of the Museum of Technology, founded in 1969, are situated precisely on the site of former hydraulic engineering structures.
The collection covers about 5000 sq.m, and the number of exhibits reaches 50 thousand objects, one way or another connected with the development of technology over the past two centuries. It is interesting to trace how Finland turned from a modest agrarian country into one of the world's leading developers in the high-tech sector.
Many museum exhibits bring a smile to your face – old computers the size of a wardrobe, rotary phones, reel-to-reel tape recorders. Once they were the pinnacle of humanity's achievements, and even now, being in a museum, they arouse genuine interest among the public. This world of ancient technology will seem especially amazing to children who have never seen such curiosities. However, a visit to the exhibitions about modern gadgets will be no less interesting. It is practically impossible to distract men from these exhibits :)
