Discover whitewater rafting in Finland near the Arctic Circle, where adventuresome travellers tackle Kuusamo's rivers under ...

After experiencing burnout at the height of her career, Finnish designer and educator Emmi Salonen developed a five-step ...

When Ilkka Villi arrives at the office in the morning, he promptly suits up in a full-body spandex outfit and gets to work pretending to be an action hero. To gamers, Ilkka Villi is known as the face ...

Here’s our concise list of the Moomin novels, by Tove Jansson, perhaps Finland’s most famous writer and artist. Relive the adventures, or, if you’ve only seen the comic strips, discover the original ...

The shores of one picturesque lake were home to a community of Finland’s most significant artists in the early 1900s – a cultural powerhouse whose legacy and influence is still vibrantly alive. In ...

The term Nordic noir describes Nordic crime fiction in literature and on television. The genre typically includes attributes such as realistic crimes, strong women and rainy November weather. We hear ...

We Who Remain is the first comprehensive exhibition of Sámi art ever shown at the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki. The Sámi are the only recognised Indigenous People in the EU area.

A rare, fascinating kind of construction expertise is on display in the wintery landscape of Finnish Lapland. We head north for a look at buildings made out of snow and ice. It’s a brisk January ...

As the winter days grow shorter in Helsinki, the city bursts into light, and the Christmas season brings warmth, music and thousands of twinkling bulbs. Every year in late November, Helsinki’s ...

Happiness doesn’t just happen. In Finland, it’s the result of strong social systems and a culture of wellbeing that has been carefully built over the past 100 years. Finland’s goal is a society where ...

Close-to-nature Finland has seven natural symbols, including a national fish, a national tree and even a national insect. Many countries have an animal or bird as a national symbol, but ...