Current exhibitions

The Uusikaupunki Museum organises temporary themed exhibitions. 

Exhibitions are organised most regularly at Wahlberg’s House.  

The exhibition will be on display at the Wahlberg Museum House from June 8, 2026, to March 25, 2027.

The main exhibition of the Uusikaupunki Museum for 2026, “Blankets and Clothing – Made in Uusikaupunki,” presents the city’s significant textile industry. The exhibition sheds light on the history of companies in the field, working life, and products manufactured in Uusikaupunki.

The textile industry employed more people in Uusikaupunki well into the late 1950s than, for example, the shipyard or sawmill industries. The sector employed especially women, and as late as the early 1960s, around 400 residents of Uusikaupunki worked in textile companies.

The city’s largest and longest-running textile industry company was Uudenkaupungin Villatavaratehdas Oy, later known as UUVI Oy, whose operations ended in 1987. 

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 for example 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.