Explore Tampere

Vapriikki is a museum centre in former Tampella factory buildings on the Tammerkoski rapids, opened in 1996; its name comes from the Swedish word fabrik, factory. It holds more than ten exhibitions under one ticket, among them the Natural History Museum of Tampere, the Finnish Museum of Games, the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame and the Postal Museum.

Tampere Cathedral is a Lutheran stone church in the National Romantic style, designed by Lars Sonck and built in 1902–1907 as St John's Church. Inside are frescoes by Hugo Simberg, among them The Wounded Angel and The Garden of Death, and an altarpiece by Magnus Enckell. It is the seat of the Diocese of Tampere.

The Amuri Museum of Historic Housing keeps a block of wooden workers' houses in Tampere's Amuri district, built from the 1860s onwards, in its original place. Five dwelling houses and four courtyard buildings hold furnished homes dated from 1882 to 1973, together with a public sauna, a bakery, a cobbler's workshop and small shops. The museum opened in 1975.

Särkänniemi is an amusement park owned by the City of Tampere on a peninsula in Lake Näsijärvi, about a kilometre from the city centre. It has more than 30 rides, among them roller coasters and two water rides, and the area also holds an aquarium, a planetarium, the Doghill animal park and the Näsinneula tower. The park opened in 1975.

The Moomin Museum in Tampere Hall shows original drawings by Tove Jansson, the creator of the Moomins, alongside three-dimensional tableaux of the stories and a five-storey Moomin House, 2.5 metres high, built by Jansson, Tuulikki Pietilä and Pentti Eistola in the late 1970s. The collection went on display in 1987 and moved to Tampere Hall in 2017.

Näsinneula is a 168-metre observation tower in the Särkänniemi area of Tampere, built in 1970–1971 to a design by Pekka Ilveskoski. Lifts climb to the observation deck at 120 metres, where there is a café, and a revolving restaurant one floor above turns once every 45 minutes. Lights at the top of the mast show the weather forecast.

Pyynikki Observation Tower is a 26-metre tower of red granite on the Pyynikki esker ridge, completed in 1929 to a design by city architect Vilho Kolho. It stands about 75 metres above Lake Pyhäjärvi; a lift and stairs lead to the open top, which looks over Tampere and the lakes Näsijärvi and Pyhäjärvi. A café at its foot bakes doughnuts.

Kaleva Church is a Lutheran church designed by Reima and Raili Pietilä and completed in 1966 on a hill in the Liisankallio district of Tampere. Its walls are 17 curved concrete elements, 35 metres high and cast by slip forming, with full-height windows between them; the floor plan recalls a fish. The hall seats about 1,120 people.