Visitors can travel back in time at the new Helsinki City Museum, which opens on 13 May in the historic centre of the Finnish capital. The €13m development incorporates the oldest building in the city, Sederholm House.
But stepping through this threshold will not be the only way to time travel. Visitors can wear virtual reality goggles to explore photographs taken by the documentary photographer Signe Brander (1869-1942) and see the city as it looked 100 years ago.
The institution will also house the Museum of Broken Relationships, a travelling exhibition by the Croatian artists (and former couple) Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišić which serves as a repository for sentimental objects from former partners. Residents of Helsinki have contributed, among other objects, a five-cent coin that got stuck to a lover’s bare bottom.
