Current exhibitions

The Rauma City Museums have permanent collection exhibitions and changing thematic exhibitions. The Rauma Art Museum presents three high quality temporary exhibitions of contemporary art each year in the spring, summer and autumn seasons.

Lintu ja kala -näyttely

RAUMA ART MUSEUM
Kuninkaankatu 37, tel. 02 822 4346

MARELA
Kauppakatu 24, tel. 044 567 9183

KIRSTI (open 2.5.-31.8.)
Pohjankatu 3, tel. 044 793 3529

OLD TOWN HALL
Kauppakatu 13, tel. 044 793 3532
Closed for restoration from 1.3.2024. The site will reopen in 2026.

Photograph by Antti Laitinen, where a groove has been melted into the frozen sea.
Antti Laitinen, Attempt to Split the Sea, 2006
Antti Laitinen ja Hanna Saarikoski:
Sula || Molten

8.2. – 18.5.2025 Rauma Art Museum

The joint exhibition Sula || Molten by Antti Laitinen and Hanna Saarikoski brings together two award-winning, long-standing artists around a common theme. The exhibition focuses on ice as a material, a disappearing natural resource and a sensual memory.

The exhibition asks what will happen if there is no ice in the future? How will the great generation gap emerge as the everyday and sensual world is transformed by climate change? These are questions that deeply affect our identity in the north.

Antti Laitinen and Hanna Saarikoski made their first joint work in 2024 for the Art II Biennial. The exhibition Sula || Molten at Rauma Art Museum continues the collaboration of the Somero-based artist couple with new artworks. The exhibition mainly consists of independent works by both artists.

Antti Laitinen is an internationally renowned contemporary and environmental artist known for his works and installations that combine photography, video and performance. Hanna Saarikoski is a visual artist whose work combines painting, drawing, video art, installations and performative elements.

Old pipes and snuff boxes.
Gentlemen’s Amusements – Cultural History of Tobacco

Marela from 20.3.2025

The exhibition at the Rauma Museum Marela explores the cultural history of tobacco. The small-scale exhibition features tobacco instruments from the 1700s to the 1940s. The interior of the exhibition space is, according to the theme, the sitting room of the master of a wealthy bourgeois house. Various objects related to the use of tobacco, such as tobacco tables and pipe racks, were an integral part of the interior design.

The Heart of Pinnala – Art Collections of the City of Rauma

Rauma Art Museum 25.1.2025 –

Now it’s done. Upstairs at the Rauma Art Museum, hand picked items of the collection has been assembled under the title Heart of Pinnala. A selection of 60 works by 60 artists has been chosen from around 3,500 works. The oldest works of art date back to the 19th century, while the newest was completed and acquired last year. Paintings, sculptures, ceramics, prints, drawings and one video work. Numerous stories and imaginative images. Worth a visit more than once, the exhibition is on display for the time being.

Wedding gowns in Rauma museums exhibition Let's get Married.
Poster of Rauma museum's exhibition Let's get Married.
A detail from Let's get married-exhibition
Let’s Have a Wedding

Marela from 28.4.2023

The exhibition on wedding traditions will be on display at the Marela from 28.4.2023. The exhibition presents local wedding memories, treasures from the museum’s collections and West Finnish wedding traditions from the 19th century to the 1990s. Weddings have been celebrated for centuries and a surprising number of traditions have been passed down through the centuries, changing only slightly along the way. On the other hand, many things have also changed, from the colour of the wedding dress to the most popular time for weddings.