Postimuseo (Post Museum)

Opposite the main railway station are the main post office built in 1937 and the Post Museum. The museum boasts excellent collections of stamps from Finland and all over the world and was re-opened in autumn 2008 after extensive renovations. The exhibits cover over 360 years of postal history and are not only for philatelists worth a visit. The impressive main station is one of the most well-known buildings of Helsinki. The massive granite building constructed in 1919 is the most important work of... Eliel Saarinen and marks the transition from the national romanticism style to functionalism. The two torch-bearing sculptures on either side of the main entrance are the works of the sculptor Emil Wikström.
The station restaurant with its huge mural inspired Bertolt Brecht during his short period of exile in Finland in 1940 to compose his prose text, "Conversations in exile". Brecht's saying of the people "silent in two languages" has long been a familiar quotation about the Finns. more