Päijät-Häme Provincial Museum

Lahti Historical Museum acts as the Päijät Häme Provincial Museum, and Lahti Art Museum is the regional art museum in the Päijät-Häme district.

The Päijät-Häme Provincial Museum's area of operation includes thirteen municipalities; all municipalities in the Päijät-Häme region
(Asikkala, Hartola, Heinola, Hollola, Hämeenkoski, Kärkölä, Lahti, Nastola, Orimattila, Padasjoki and Sysmä)
and in addition Mäntsälä in Uusimaa region.

Provincial matters are the responsibility of a provincial museum researcher, who coordinates museum activities in the area and provides advice for museums that are not professionally run. Provincial museum researcher also advises private people and organisations on how to look after their own collections. The two building researchers of the unit of cultural environment and an archeologist provide expert services for the protection of cultural environment and archeological heritage in the provincial museum's area.

The museums of the Päijät-Häme Region are presented on the website
The Museum Journey in the Päijät-Häme Region
(www.phmuseomatka.fi).

Contacts

E-mail: firstname.lastname(at)lahti.fi

MARIANNE KOSKI
Researcher, museum advisor
+358 50 398 5492

RIITTA NISKANEN
Building researcher
Tel. +358 3 814 4541
Fax: +358 3 814 4545

PÄIVI SIIKANIEMI
Building researcher
Tel. +358 3 814 4506, +358 50 5184 590
Fax: +358 3 814 4545

HANNU TAKALA
Head of Research
- Archeology
Tel.+358 50 5594 158

VILLE-MATTI RAUTJOKI
Head of Exhibitions
- The Regional Art Museum of Päijät-Häme
Tel. +358 50 3985 513
Fax +358 (0)3 814 4545

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Art performance dealing with the Finnish civil war in 1918 aims to involve 22 000 participants

24th January, 2013 - The Finnish artist Kaisa Salmi will realize a large-scale participatory performance “Fellman Field - Living Monument of 22 000 People” in Lahti, Finland on Sunday the 28th of April 2013.

The International Lahti Poster Biennial Becomes a Triennial

2.5.2012 - The event will be renewed and a comprehensive selection of international poster art will be on view in Lahti next time in 2014. The exhibition will become a poster triennial, arranged every third year.