Guided tours for adults
For adult groups, we offer guided tours focusing on the history of Finnish kindergarten work, with thematic emphases tailored to the group's interests and wishes.
Below on this page, you can explore the guided tours offered by the Kindergarten Museum for adult audiences. The tours can also be conducted as memoir-based tours, focusing, for example, on toys and artefacts from a particular era, childhood games, and memories of kindergarten.
We welcome adult groups:
- Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays from 8 am to 6 pm
- Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 8 am to 12 noon
- also in the evenings and at weekends by arrangement.
Group visits and guided tours, if desired, must be booked in advance.
Prices for guided tours for adults:
- €50 / guided tour + admission fees (1–15 people)
- €90 / guided tour + admission fees (16–25 people)
- €150 / guided tour + admission fees (26–40 people)
Admission: €10 per adult / €6 per pensioner / Museum Card.
A 50% surcharge is added to the price of guided tours held on Saturdays, and a 100% surcharge to the price of guided tours held on Sundays.
The museum is open to individual visitors on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 12 noon to 7 pm. We do not accommodate groups during these hours. Groups of fewer than 5 people may, however, visit the museum as individual visitors.
Book a guided visit
Call 050 3077 399
Send an email to ebeneser(at)ebeneser.fi
Bookings can be cancelled free of charge one day before a guided tour. We will charge the price of a guided tour for non-cancelled tours.
Themed Guided Tours for Adult Groups:
Ebeneser – At the Roots of Finnish Kindergarten Education
Where did Finnish early childhood education begin? What makes Ebeneser House an important historical landmark?
This guided tour for adult groups explores the history of kindergarten work and Finnish early childhood education, with a particular focus on its early development. The tour introduces visitors to a 20th-century kindergarten and to Froebelian kindergarten pedagogy in an authentic historical kindergarten setting.
The tour can be tailored to the group's interests, and any specific wishes regarding the focus of the tour can be taken into account in advance.
Spatial Stories
The Spatial Stories guided tour explores Ebeneser House from the perspective of space and spatiality. The tour considers how kindergarten spaces in the past and early childhood education settings today have been designed, what ideas and principles have shaped their design, and how people and their activities have shaped the spaces around them.
The Ebeneser kindergarten, which operated in Ebeneser House, serves as one of the examples. Did children have personal space in the kindergarten? What might a child-centred space look like?
The tour also explores the relationship between space and time: what different layers can be found in an early childhood education setting, and how have these layers come about?
The tour can also provide ideas and practical tools for developing the spatial solutions and learning environments of your own early childhood education setting.
Building Possibilities – A Construction Workshop for Adults
A hands-on workshop for adults featuring building with authentic Froebel blocks and giant-sized blocks. Simple blocks can be transformed in countless ways, inviting participants to discover the possibilities of form. The workshop approaches building from the perspectives of the properties of shapes, aesthetic possibilities, and representation.
Participants build both guided and spontaneously, individually and together as a group. The experiences and ideas explored in the workshop can be applied directly, or adapted, when working with groups of children.
The workshop begins with an introduction to the philosophy of the educationalist Friedrich Froebel (1782–1852). The practical part starts with exercises exploring Froebel blocks, followed by a more embodied approach to building with giant-sized blocks. The giant blocks are oversized Froebel blocks created collaboratively by the Kindergarten Museum and artist Alexander Reichstein.
Duration: 1 hour
Group size: 1–15 participants
Price: €100