Guided tours and workshops for groups

Intro is a short presentation that introduces you to the highlights of Tove Jansson’s Paradise exhibition. The guide presents the exhibition’s themes and central works with images and shares fascinating background information about the exhibition’s creation process. Participants will follow the presentation seated in the tranquil HAM hall, after which you can tour the exhibition at your own pace. 

On a guided tour, you will explore an exhibition’s artworks with a guide. The guide will introduce you to the exhibition’s themes and share fascinating stories about the artworks. During the tour, you will also have time for questions and discussion.  

Tove Jansson illustrated several ex libris, or bookplates, indicating ownership of a book. A bookplate often includes the book owner’s initials and an illustration reflecting things that are important to the owner. The bookplate is affixed to the top left corner of a book’s front endpaper. Jansson’s ex libris, illustrated in 1947, contains several motifs meaningful to her: the sea, a woman’s body, a Moomintroll, flowers, and a burning heart with the text “Labora et Amare” below it, a slightly misspelled version of the Latin slogan meaning “to work and love”.

In the workshop, we will make bookplates using the drypoint technique, which is an intaglio printmaking method. We will start by sketching subjects from the Paradise exhibition. The actual image is incised into a plastic plate with a metal needle and printed onto paper using a press.

In this workshop, we will create miniature paintings inspired by the works of Tove Jansson’s Paradise exhibition. First, we will visit the exhibition briefly and sketch various plants, animals, and creatures. After the exhibition visit, you will prime a small canvas, on which you will paint with gouache.  

Experience the best HAM has to offer! On this guided tour, we will explore HAM’s current exhibitions through key works chosen by the guide. This guided tour provides you a good overview of the exhibitions and the history of Tennis Palace.

Nastja Säde Rönkkö’s thought-provoking installation invites viewers to reflect on the uncertain future facing humankind and all living beings. At the core of the work, 26 videos examine strategies for crisis survival. On the guided tour, we will explore exhibition’s themes and stories behind the videos.

On this tour, we will discover Tove Jansson’s party-themed frescos and the mural Play she implemented at the Aurora Children’s Hospital. Tove Jansson was a multitalented artist who is best known as the creator of the Moomins. Her public artworks provide new perspectives on the beloved artist.

For one of HAM’s great arched halls, Norwegian contemporary artist Tori Wrånes will create a world inspired by surrealism and imagination. Wrånes has long made use of various figures and creatures, which she depicts performing rituals in their own, dreamlike worlds. Together,exhibition’s namesake piece, BIG WATER (2022), a large six-channel video and sound installation and object-like artworks create a whole that encourages us to imagine further, to surrender to the new and to gather around things that unite us.

In this workshop, we will make colourful art prints with an easy monotype technique. We will use soft gel printing plates and make patterns with various materials. Join this workshop to play with colours, forms, and surfaces. You will be surprised by the unique result!