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Oodi’s Guided Tours for Student Field Trips
During the guided tours school groups get to know Oodi's different floors. We offer tours in Finnish and…
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The library’s makerspace born in a lead user workshop
Crisp morning air gusts in through the windows, with the flip charts and post-it notes fluttering in the breeze. Markers in different colours have been scattered around …
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COVID-19 passport introduced at public events at Helmet libraries
Due to the worsened COVID-19 situation, the Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland issued new restrictions on 2 December 2021. …
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The Oodi youth space is now open!
The Oodi youth space is located on the 1st floor balcony, just above the book returning station. Aimed at all young people under the age of 29, the youth space is open …
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Pop-up vaccination point at Oodi
The City of Helsinki has opened pop-up corona vaccination points around the city and now there's one at Oodi as well. If you live in Helsinki and …
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Expedition, discovery and mystery — room for children and youth
Rum för Barn is a children’s library in Kulturhuset, Stockholm. But it is also an expedition, discovery and mystery. “Emma thought it was really exiting…
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Massive roof element puzzle
The first roof elements have been erected in the northern end of Oodi. Piecing them together has been a giant jigsaw puzzle of rectangles and triangles, but it isn’t the lightest of jobs: the elements are 12 metres long and almost a metre thick. Their widths vary, but they all weigh thousands of kilos.
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Learning the building, alphabetising the materials
Oodi has come alive. The library’s more than 50 employees have taken over the building, from the basement to the Book Heaven, in all the spaces where this is already …
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See the Central Library! The exhibition of the competition entries is open 10.-16.5.
The City of Helsinki is holding an open international architectural competition titled “The Heart of the Metropolis” for the new Central Library. The first phase of …