Museum and Science Centre Tiima will open on October 9, 2026. In the same building, you will find the Experience Space VISIO, Science Centre Tietomaa, the Oulu Museum, and the Children’s Museum. There is plenty to do outside too at the Adventure Factory outdoor playground. Additionally, Tiima includes a shop, café-restaurant, and a panoramic elevator.
“Tiima is a special and unique museum and science centre where you can see and experience so much that visitors will be overwhelmed by choice. Seeing all the attractions at once might be too much to chew”, Oulu Museum and Science Centre’s Director Pekka Olsbo describes.
Experience Space VISIO is a brand-new attraction in Finland. Its laser monitoring system and massive wall and floor projections with hyper-precise 8K-3D resolution create a unique space – and reality. The technology is based on the Austrian Science Centre Ars Electronica’s Deep Space concept. “The contents are, of course, more important than the technology. The contents are being chosen and designed as we speak”, Pekka Olsbo explains.
Both Science Centre Tietomaa and the Oulu Museum (previously Northern Ostrobothnia Museum) have renewed their operations and brands. They organize the new Metallikausi Exhibition in cooperation.
Children’s Museum and Adventure Factory are bith free of charge. “It is important to us that everyone can visit Tiima, which is why we decided to offer some activities free of charge”, Olsbo adds.
10 attractions – 1 ticket
Experience Space VISIO
VISIO is one of the world’s most impressive immersive experience spaces. It invites you onto a unique journey throughout the universe with state-of-the-art technology as the first such space in Finland. An interactive virtual reality, where participants can affect the course of events, creates unique experiences.
Oulu: My Stories
The story of our northern city is full of contradictions – cold, but wet; awful, but beloved – sometimes the wind blows against you, but you always keep going forward.
The new exhibition invites you into the multiple layers of Oulu’s history and present day where the ocean, rivers, streets, and people intertwine into the building blocks of Oulu’s identity.
Children’s Museum – City Pathways
The exhibition tells the story of a child who follows their own paths and trails in the city. The child walks through local forests, along the railway tracks, through courtyards, visits a park kiosk, throws snowballs at a snow castle, and dives under Oulu’s waters.
There is always something to do and try at the Children’s Museum – you are allowed to touch almost everything! The exhibition is free of charge, accessible, and safe for all ages. Remember to take your shoes off.
Adventure Factory
Adventure Factory is an outdoor playground by the Museum and Science Centre Tiima where you can explore the machinery of the old tannery.
During dark hours, the Factory comes alive in a whole new way as it is lit by light art!
Metallikausi
The Metallikausi (Fin. Metal Era) exhibition dives into the dark and cold under current of metal music. A globally renowned and recognized marginal phenomenon, that continues to thrive, rose from the depths of the north, ice, darkness, loneliness and melancholia in the 80s.
It is a tribute to northern metal bands, such as Riff Raff, Faff-Bey, Sentenced, Hebosagil and Bonehunter. These bands took the scene’s extremity to a brand-new level. For those who are here now and who were here then.
The exhibition is realized in cooperation between the Oulu Museum and the Science Centre Tietomaa.
Masiina
Tietomaa’s interactive exhibition takes visitors onto an exciting journey into a fictional past.
The Science Centre’s renovation uncovered a steam robot factory from the 1860s called Masiina (Fin. Machine). The factory was created by the Inventor and Machinist Alfred Didrik Härvelin. The factory’s prime was cut short, and new buildings rose on the plot. Masiina was forgotten. But this hidden part of Oulu’s industrial history will become public once more.
The action-packed exhibition combines the imaginary world of Härvelin’s steam machines and the modern science centre, not to mention robotics. Visitors will explore the factory-like environment and test their skills in different challenges.
Aurora Revelare – Dancing Colors in the Sky
The VISIO presentation takes the viewer onto a journey with a northern-Finnish boy who hears stories about northern lights from his father and grandfather. The story includes both scientific facts and ancient folk beliefs about fire foxes and fires in the sky.
The science exhibition invites visitors to wonder, participate, and experience with all the senses. All twelve attractions of the exhibition examine four primary themes: sun, plasma, magnetism, and aurora borealis.
On Animal Trails
At the exhibition, you will get to explore the Oulu region’s diverse nature and its fascinating local inhabitants. Along the way, you will meet animals you might not often run into – at least not nearby!
There are over one hundred taxidermized animals, skeletons, skulls, and a wide range of invertebrate animals, especially bugs, on display.
There is plenty to see and also to experience at the exhibition. You can splash around like salmon, fly like a bird, and hunt like a frog.
Värkkäämö
Värkkäämö (Fin. Tinkering Room) is a fun and inspiring learning environment for both younger and older explorers.
It combines science, technology, engineering, art, and math in a creative and surprising way. This approach is an example of STEAM ideology.
Panoramic elevator
You will also find the old water tower of the Veljekset Åström Oy’s tannery at Tiima. Today, the tower serves as a panoramic elevator.