Current exhibitions

The Uusikaupunki Museum organises temporary themed exhibitions. 

Exhibitions are organised most regularly at Wahlberg’s House. 

The 100-year-old Uusikaupunki railway 

The railway was decided to be extended from Turku to Uusikaupunki, and it was under construction for a long time, mainly due to a lack of funding. After the railway was finally completed in 1924, the city's heyday as a maritime town during the era of sailing ships was already a thing of the past.

Passenger traffic on the railway initially exceeded expectations, but over the decades, as other forms of transportation increased, it dwindled. Passenger traffic was discontinued in 1992. On the other hand, freight traffic on the railway became more important with the growth of industry, as the railway was extended in the 1960s to Hangonsaari for the fertilizer factory Rikkihappo Oy.

The exhibition tells the story of the hundred-year-old railway's planning and construction, trains and locomotives, and the impact of the railway on people's daily lives, other forms of transportation, trade, and industry.

CHRISTMAS AT THE WAHLBERG MUSEUM HOUSE - Preparing for Christmas in a Bourgeois Home

The celebration of Christmas in its current form began to spread in the late 19th century in affluent gentry homes in rural areas and among the bourgeoisie in cities. In bourgeois homes, servants especially worked diligently on Christmas preparations. Cleaning the house and preparing Christmas dishes required a lot of time and effort, with work starting weeks or even months before Christmas itself.

The Christmas season at the Uusikaupunki Museum opens on Sunday, November 24th, from 12 PM to 4 PM at the Wahlberg Museum House, with free entry. The Christmas at the Wahlberg House features beautifully decorated rooms of a bourgeois home, Christmas pastries, and fragrant holiday flowers. This year, visitors can also learn about pre-Christmas tasks, such as what the servants in a bourgeois house did before the holiday celebrations or how the wealthy merchant family prepared for Christmas.

Museum visitors can also play detective and solve the "Invisible Christmas Secret Message," which can be found using a UV lamp!

In addition, visitors to the museum house can explore the maritime permanent exhibition upstairs and an exhibition about the history of the Uusikaupunki railway.

Opening hours:

November 24th: 12 PM – 4 PM  
November 26, 2024 – January 4, 2025: Tuesday to Saturday, 12 PM – 3 PM (closed on December 6th, December 24th–26th, and January 1st)

In addition to the temporary exhibitions, the rest of the Wahlberg’s House museum also tells visitors of the past of Uusikaupunki. The permanent exhibition on the ground floor, the ‘bourgeois home’, shows how local merchant families lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, while the permanent exhibition on the top floor provides information about the founding of Uusikaupunki and local maritime history. On the top floor, you can also find information about the Uusikaupunki peace treaty of 1721, the car industry, and you even get to admire the trainers that Junnu Lee, a national team basketball player from Uusikaupunki, wore at a World Cup tournament.