Current exhibitions

The Rauma City Museums have permanent collection exhibitions and changing thematic exhibitions. The Rauma Art Museum presents three high quality temporary exhibitions of contemporary art each year in the spring, summer and autumn seasons.

RAUMA ART MUSEUM
Kuninkaankatu 37, tel. 02 822 4346

MARELA
Kauppakatu 24, tel. 044 567 9183

KIRSTI (open 2.5.-31.8.)
Pohjankatu 3, tel. 044 793 3529

OLD TOWN HALL
Kauppakatu 13, tel. 044 793 3532
Closed for restoration from 1.3.2024. The site will reopen in 2026.

Cia Rinne, Wasting my Grammar

4.10.2025 – 2.4.2026 Rauma Art Museum

The exhibition of Finnish-Swedish artist Cia Rinne is the first solo exhibition of the multi-award winning artist in a Finnish art museum. Wasting my Grammar is a multilingual exhibition combining media art and installations that explores interaction, community and language, and the deceptive, untranslatable realm of language in communication.

The minimalist and beautiful exhibition is based on Rinne’s solo show Vad angår meningar är jag förtvivlad (I’m very unhappy about sentences) at Marabouparken in Stockholm in spring 2024, and will be extended with new and old works by Rinne at Rauma Art Museum. The exhibition is also a new opening for Rauma Art Museum in the field of minimalist contemporary art exhibitions based on language games, where Rinne’s object and video installations are at the centre.

Rinne’s work has been exhibited in prestigious international institutions such as INCA (Seattle/Detroit), Haus am Waldsee (Berlin) and Centre Pompidou (Paris). She was awarded the State Prize for Literature in 2019.

Laces. Sabina Lundström is making lace.
The Story of Rauma Lace

Marela from 3.6.2025

The exhibition presents the history and present day of lace-making in Rauma, featuring lace treasures and memories from the collections of the Rauma Museum.

Old pipes and snuff boxes.
Gentlemen’s Amusements – Cultural History of Tobacco

Marela from 20.3.2025

The exhibition at the Rauma Museum Marela explores the cultural history of tobacco. The small-scale exhibition features tobacco instruments from the 1700s to the 1940s. The interior of the exhibition space is, according to the theme, the sitting room of the master of a wealthy bourgeois house. Various objects related to the use of tobacco, such as tobacco tables and pipe racks, were an integral part of the interior design.

The Heart of Pinnala – Art Collections of the City of Rauma

Rauma Art Museum 25.1.2025 –

Now it’s done. Upstairs at the Rauma Art Museum, hand picked items of the collection has been assembled under the title Heart of Pinnala. A selection of 60 works by 60 artists has been chosen from around 3,500 works. The oldest works of art date back to the 19th century, while the newest was completed and acquired last year. Paintings, sculptures, ceramics, prints, drawings and one video work. Numerous stories and imaginative images. Worth a visit more than once, the exhibition is on display for the time being.

Wedding gowns in Rauma museums exhibition Let's get Married.
Poster of Rauma museum's exhibition Let's get Married.
A detail from Let's get married-exhibition
Let’s Have a Wedding

Marela from 28.4.2023

The exhibition on wedding traditions will be on display at the Marela from 28.4.2023. The exhibition presents local wedding memories, treasures from the museum’s collections and West Finnish wedding traditions from the 19th century to the 1990s. Weddings have been celebrated for centuries and a surprising number of traditions have been passed down through the centuries, changing only slightly along the way. On the other hand, many things have also changed, from the colour of the wedding dress to the most popular time for weddings.