Opening hours
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
Ainola is closed for the winter season from 1 October 2026 to 1 May 2027.
Ainola is open during the summer season from 2 May to 30 September 2027, Tuesday through Sunday from 10.00 to 17.00. Ticket sales end at 16.30.
Exceptions to opening hours: The museum is closed for Midsummer on 25–26 June 2027 and on Saturday 14 August 2027 due to a private event.
Admission tickets
Adults
Pensioners
Students
Children (ages 7–16)
18 €
10 €
10 €
5 €
You can also visit the museum with a Finnish Museum Card (Museokortti) or a Kaikukortti card.
Children under 7 years of age can visit Ainola for free.
You can visit Ainola for free on Tuesday 18 May, Tuesday 10 August, and Friday 24 September 2027.
You can purchase your admission ticket to Ainola at the ticket office during the museum’s opening hours. Please note that the ticket office closes at 16.30, half an hour before the museum closes. The ticket office is in the building right next to the main gate, originally designed for the museum’s caretaker by architect Aulis Blomstedt in the 1970s.
The ticket office building also houses Café Aulis and the museum shop.
Guided tours
Booking a tour
You can book a guided tour at Ainola for yourself or your group. Guided tours are included in the entrance ticket price and should be booked in advance. Guided tours can be booked by email or phone:
info@ainola.fi
+358 (0)9 287 322 (during museum opening hours)
Cancellations must be made at least one day before the tour. We charge the full admission fee for reservations that are not canceled.
Private tours are for groups of 1–25 people. Larger groups are divided into two groups.
You can also book our themed tours for 70 € per group. Get in touch for more information!
Info for tour organizers and group leaders
Public guided tours
Ainola offers guided tours in English open to the public from Tuesday to Sunday at 11.00 in August 2027. Please note that the museum is closed on Saturday 14 August 2027.
There will also be two guided tours in English after Midsummer on Sunday 27 June 2027 at 11.00 and 15.00.
Guided tours are held for a maximum of 25 people. Admission is on a first come, first served basis. No advance registration is required.
You can participate in the tours with an admission ticket or a Finnish Museum Card (Museokortti).
Check out our special tours and concerts on the Events page.
Please remember to follow the museum rules. You may walk only in the designated areas inside the museum building. You must not pick any plants from the garden or the forest.
Getting here
By train
The R-train from Helsinki or Tampere/Riihimäki stops at the Ainola train station, which is about 1 kilometre away from Ainola. The Järvenpää train station is about 2.5 kilometres away from Ainola.
By car
There is a large parking lot in front of the museum reserved for visitors arriving by car. The parking lot has two accessible parking spaces near the museum entrance.
By bike
There is a bike rack behind the museum gate where bicycles must be left. Please remember to lock your bike!
Visiting with dogs
Dogs are welcome on the terrace of Café Aulis. Only guide dogs are allowed inside the museum building and in the garden.
Address
Ainolankatu 1
04400 JÄRVENPÄÄ
Visiting with children
Children are also very welcome at Ainola. We offer fun activities and a variety of events for our young visitors. The trail winding through the garden and forest is a wonderful place to explore the beautiful nature and plants at Ainola. The sand paths are accessible with strollers.
You cannot enter the museum building with a stroller. You can leave strollers on the porch or in front of the museum building.
A changing table is available in the accessible restroom. The accessible restroom and the café restrooms are equipped with potties, toilet seat reducers, and step stools for children’s use. The café has two high chairs available.
Children are under the responsibility of an adult on the museum grounds. Museum staff are not responsible for children. Please remember to instruct children to follow the museum rules: visitors may only walk in designated areas within the museum building, and picking plants from the garden or forest is not allowed.
Accessibility
Ticket Office, café, and restrooms
The museum ticket office and café building is located on the right as you enter the museum grounds, about 40 metres from the gate. The building is accessible. The entrance is via an open passageway located at the end of the sandy path leading to the building. The door to the museum ticket office and café is located in the middle of the passageway, in a small recess on the left. Immediately upon entering the passageway, the accessible restroom and baby care room are located on the right. The café also has two public restrooms.
Museum building
The museum building is about 150 metres from the ticket office. Leaving the café building, walk about 40 metres to the gate area, turn right, and continue up the hill. From the gate, the same accessible path leads straight up the hill. The hill is fairly steep, and halfway up there is a small area with a bench on the left side.
The museum building’s porch has a built-in wheelchair lift. Staff are available to assist with the lift. The museum has thresholds and narrow doorways, but it is accessible with walkers and wheelchairs. The museum also offers guided tours in Easy Finnish and with audio description.
Getting around the museum area
The garden paths are only partially accessible. For example, to reach the graves of Jean and Aino Sibelius, it is best to take the lower path through the garden, past the sauna. Coming from the café building, turn immediately right, and a narrower sandy path will lead you through the garden to the gravesite.
Forest path
A sandy path about one metre wide winds through the Ainola forest. The path starts on the slope below the gravesite of Jean and Aino Sibelius. It returns to the upper end of the accessible road leading from the house to the gate area. The accessibility of the forest path cannot be fully guaranteed, as the path has some steep inclines and its surface may be soft for example after rain.
Our staff will be happy to help and advise you if needed!
Ainola’s principles for a safer space
We follow safer space principles at Ainola
We treat each other with respect.
• We act towards each other with kindness.
• We consider other visitors during the museum visit. Avoiding excess noise helps visitors to listen to guided tours. Moving calmly augments museum safety.
Everyone can be themselves.
• In Ainola, we respect people’s different ways of being and doing things.
• We do not make assumptions about visitors’ sex, sexuality, ethnicity, functional capacity, social class, etc.
Bullying, discrimination and harassment are forbidden.
• If you witness any bullying, discrimination or harassment, please inform our personnel.
You can always ask for help from our personnel.
• Please, tell the personnel if you or someone else needs help.
• Our personnel are trained to act in situations concerning safety.