Opening hours 2 May – 30 September 2026
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Closed
10.00-17.00
10.00-17.00
10.00-17.00
10.00-17.00
10.00-17.00
10.00-17.00
During the summer season 2 May – 30 September 2026, Ainola is open from Tuesday to Sunday at 10am–5pm. The ticket office closes at 4.30pm.
Exceptions to opening hours: The museum is closed for Midsummer on 19–20 June 2026 and for a private function on the second Saturday in August.
Admission tickets 2026
Adults
Pensioners
Students
Children (aged 7–16)
€16
€11
€7
€5
Buy your tickets in advance
We also accept the Museum and Kaikukortti cards.
Children under the age of 7 visit Ainola for free.
Tickets are available for purchase at the Ainola ticket office during the opening hours of the museum. Please note that the ticket office closes at 4.30pm, half an hour before the museum.
The ticket office is located by the main gate in the 1970s building originally designed by architect Aulis Blomstedt for the museum’s caretaker.
Café Aulis and the museum shop are also located in the same building with the ticket office.
Guided tours
You can book a private guided tour at Ainola. The guided tour is included in the price of the ticket when it is booked in advance. You can either email or phone Ainola to pre-book a guided tour:
info@ainola.fi
+358 9 287 322 (during museum opening hours).
Any cancellations must be made at least one day in advance. We charge the full ticket price for all guided tours that have not been cancelled.
Guided tours are available for groups of 1–25 people. Any bigger groups we split into two separate tours.
You can also book our themed tours for €70/group. Please email us if you have any questions.
Guided tours
We offer a public guided tour in English every day in August at 3pm. All visitors are welcome to join the public tours. No reservation is required for the public tours.
The tour is organised for a minimum of one person and a maximum of 25 people. The groups are filled on a first-come, first-served basis. No pre-registration necessary.
A museum ticket or a Museum Card entitles you to take part on a guided tour.
Find our special guided tours and concerts on our Events page.
Please remember to follow the museum’s rules: you can only access the marked areas in the museum building. You must not pick any plants in the garden or the forest.
Getting here
The best way to get to Ainola is either by train or car.
The R train from Helsinki or Tampere/Riihimäki stops at the Ainola station which is about a 1-kilometre walk from Ainola.
The distance to Ainola from the Järvenpää station is approximately 2.5 km.
There is a large car park outside the museum for those arriving by car. The car park has two disabled parking spots near the gate to the museum area.
There is also a bike rack inside the museum gate. Don’t forget to lock your bike!
We welcome dogs on the terrace at Café Aulis. Only guide dogs are allowed in the museum building and the gardens.
Ainola’s address:
Aino and Jean Sibelius’ home museum
Ainolankatu 1
04400 JÄRVENPÄÄ
Accessibility
Ticket office, café and toilet
Ainola’s ticket office and café are located approximately 40 metres to the right from the gate. The building is accessible. Entrance to the building is via a covered walkway, which is at the end of a gravel path leading to the building. The door to the ticket office and the café is located halfway up the walkway, in a small recess on the left-hand side. The accessible toilet and the baby changing room are on the right-hand side as you get into the walkway. There are also two other toilets in the café.
Museum building
The museum building is located approximately 150 metres from the ticket office. From the café, you walk 40 metres back to the gate and then turn right to walk up the hill. From the gate, you take the same accessible path up the hill. The slope is fairly steep; there is a bench halfway up at a point where the path widens.
The porch entrance to the museum has a wheelchair lift.
A member of our staff will assist you with the use of the lift. There are thresholds and narrow doorways in the museum, but you can get around using a wheelchair or a walking frame. The museum also offers tours in plain language and with audio description.
Getting around the museum grounds
The garden paths are only partially accessible, and the best way to access the grave of Jean and Aino Sibelius is via the lower garden, past the sauna. To go to the graves via the garden, turn right at the café building and continue along the narrower gravel path.
Forest trail
An approximately one-metre-wide gravel trail winds around the forest surrounding Ainola. The trail starts on the slope just below Jean and Aino Sibelius’ grave. It leads to the accessible path running from the house to the gate. We cannot fully guarantee the accessibility of the forest trail because it has some steeper inclines and the surface may be soft, especially after rain.
Members of our staff are happy to assist!