Side programs
Sibelius Hall Tours
These tours, which take place before concerts, explore the history and architecture of the building and its many rooms. The tour lasts around 45–60 minutes and includes a visit to the Forest Hall, which evokes a Finnish forest, the Carpenter’s Hall, a renovated factory that is over 100 years old, and of course the world-famous Main Hall.
Tours can be booked in Finnish and English.
Group enquiries: myynti@eventumlahti.fi
Ainola´s bounty Festival Buffet at Restaurant Lastu
Listen, you like food, don’t you? That´s great!
I might have to learn to cook all kind of rarities for you, right?
I would so love to cook for you – Hmm, isn’t that funny?
Aino Järnefelt to Jean Sibelius at the time of their engagement in 1892.
Thu 28.8. at 5 pm
Fri 29.8. at 5 pm
Sat 30.8. at 3 pm
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Green salad, marinated apple and pear (m,g,veg)
Pickled cabbage and raspberry salad (m,g,veg)
Home-made cheese and tomato salad, sour cream sauce with chives (l,g)
Forest mushroom pasty with rye crust (l)
Tar marinated Baltic herring (m,g)
Flame-cooked salmon, pea purée and lemon mayonnaise (m,g)
Potato flatbread (l), Rye bread (l)
Browned butter (I) and carrot hummus (m,g,veg)
Overnight braised beef neck, dark gravy (m,g)
Vegetarian patties in smokey tomato sauce (m,veg)
Roasted potato wedges and root vegetables with parsley (m,g,veg)
Apple and rhubarb crumble with whipped cinnamon cream (l,g)
Chocolate confectionery
€48.50
g = gluten-free, l = lactose-free, veg = vegan, m = dairy-free
Table reservations: sibeliustalo@compass-group.fi, tel.: 010 729 6577
Ainola
IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE SIBELIUS FESTIVAL
SPECIAL GUIDED TOURS
Wed 27.8.2025 3 pm: Jean Sibelius – music and everyday life in Ainola
Fri 29.8.2025 10 am: Jean Sibelius – music and everyday life in Ainola
Sat 30.8.2025 3 pm: Luonto Jean Sibeliuksen musiikissa (FIN)
Sun 31.8.2025 1 pm: Jean Sibelius – music and everyday life in Ainola
Reservations by email: info@ainola.fi, tour included in entry ticket price.
Café Aulis serves museum visitors during the museum’s opening hours.
PUBLIC GUIDED TOURS
2 pm, tour included in entry ticket price. In Finnish.
SIBELIUS FESTIVAL BENEFIT
Discount in admission for festival ticket holders 13/8/5 € (normally 16/11/7) from August 27th to 31st.
Järvenpää Art Museum
The Järvenpää Art Museum hosts a collection of art by the Lake Tuusula artists Eero Järnefelt and Venny Soldan-Brofeldt. The museum has a permanent exhibition, ‘Eero & Venny’, which follows in the artists’ footsteps to Lake Tuusula, Koli, Hanko and the art schools of Paris. To mark the Sibelius anniversary year, Järnefelt’s portraits of Sibelius are also on display.
Hiljaisuus ja metsä (Silence and the forest) – 160th anniversary of the birth of Jean Sibelius
Taneli Eskola and Otso Vartiainen, 23.4.2025–4.1.2026, Järvenpää Art Museum
The exhibition ‘Silence and the Forest’ pays tribute to Jean Sibelius’s deep relationship with nature through contemporary art. Works by photographer Taneli Eskola and light artist Otso Vartiainen invite visitors to experience a world of nature, silence and colour inspired by the composer.
Sibelius Festival ticket holders pay the discounted price of €10 (normally €12) for admission to the museum between 28 August and 30 August.
Museums in Lahti
Sibelius Festival discount at museums in Lahti
Holders of tickets for the Sibelius Festival are entitled to admission between 29 and 30 August:
Malva, the Lahti Museum of Visual Arts €14 (normally €18)
The Historical Museum €12 (normally €14)
The Ski Museum €10 (normally €12)
The Radio and TV Museum Mastola €10 (normally €12)