Design Museum, Helsinki

The building is situated in Kaartinkaupunki, on Korkeavuorenkatu Street, and is owned by the Republic of Finland through Senate Properties.

The building was completed in 1895 and originally built as a school building for the Swedish-language school Läroverket för gossar och flickor.

[1] The museum, which is 150 years old (2023) and one of the oldest in the world – was first founded in 1873 but has operated in its present premises, a former school, designed by architect Gustaf Nyström in 1894 in the neo-Gothic style, since 1978.

Situated on the same city block is the Museum of Finnish Architecture.

From museum's home page, there is a free access to several web exhibitions on Finnish design, for example about the production of Arabia Factory, Marimekko and designers Kaj Franck and Oiva Toikka.