Museokeskus Vapriikki — Attraction in Tampere sub-region

My children are having nightmares! We paid a visit to Vaprikki today and my two daughters aged 6 and 9 have been upset ever since - we were happily exploring the games area, kids were playing with the consoles when we noticed we were being followed around by a male member of staff.. He approached my daughters and confronted them very aggressively because our small entrance stickers on our clothes had fallen off.. we showed him the receipt but he accused us of not paying and proceeded to raise his voice angrily even though I explained the kids stickers must have fallen off as we walked around. He could see my daughters were visibly upset by his aggression but continued to shout at them anyway. We managed to escape from him and headed straight to the entrance desk to tell them what had happened - they were apologetic and offered my daughters a small sweet which my daughters were too shaken and upset to eat. I have never in my life experienced an incident like this - were a member of staff in a children’s museum harasses and intimidates young children for no reason. My children cannot sleep now as they are ‘scared that the museum man is coming to get them’, it has left a lasting impression on them which I fear will last for a long time. My message to Vaprikki management is why do you employ staff that clearly have no customer care skills and will go out of their way to ruin a child’s day in such an...

The exhibit on Superheroes did an excellent job tracing the connection between the ancient mythologies of Greek and Rome to modern day superheroes. I was disappointed in the discussion of the creators of DC and Marvel comics. As a diaspora Jew who is of the same generation and grew up with these creators, I know them and their history. Bob Kane, Stan Lee, etc. were the children of Eastern European Jews escaping the pogroms who came to America in the 1890s as my family did. They were grateful for the opportunity and safety that America gave their families and their community and the ability to practice Judaism safely. The subtext of all the stories in their comic books was the little guy overcoming the forces of evil, tolerance of all, seeing humanity in all people, protecting the weak, being honest and kind. By leaving out this very important context, your exhibit failed to tell the whole story and erased an essential part of who the true superheroes were - the creators of these amazing stories. These creators fought against antisemitism with comic books, using allegories and hiding their Jewish identities. We are in similar times and we need a new generation to pick up their work and...

With a picturesque location beside the Tammerkoski rapids, Vapriikki is a museum centre that offers things to see and do for the whole family. We host about a dozen exhibitions each year, with varied themes, including history, technology, and natural sciences. Vapriikki is also home to the Natural History Museum of Tampere, the Media Museum Rupriikki, the Mineral Museum, the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame, the Doll Museum, Postal Museum and The Finnish Museum of Games. Our visitors are served by museum restaurant Valssi and the Vapriikki museum shop, which offers a wide selection of books, gifts, and souvenirs. Vapriikki is housed in the old Tampella factory hall, whose oldest parts date back to the 1880s. The largest exhibition hall, a hundred metres long and 16 metres high, was built in the 1910s–1920s. Vapriikki opened to the public in 1996, and the building was fully ready as a museum in 2000. The total floor area of the museum centre is approximately 14,000 m2, half of which is devoted to exhibition facilities and premises open...