Lakes, forests and strikingly unfamiliar cityscapes give Finland cinematic range, but the real draws for foreign film ...

Iida Karhunen caught viewers’ attention with her Olympic debut in 2026 at age 17. Her precision and composure suggest she ...

Every summer, much of Finland deliberately downshifts as schools close, workplaces empty out and people head towards lakes, forests and cottages. “It’s the season,” says Emily, a hairdresser in the ...

Although climate change, as noted by the Finnish Meteorological Institute, is evident in Finnish winter temperatures, ice in the Baltic Sea remains an annual obstacle for sea traffic. A fleet of ...

After the Second World War, traditional Finnish music experienced a period of dormancy as modern styles gained dominance. In the late 1960s, however, the Kaustinen Folk Music Festival became a ...

Times have changed since the days when artist Tom of Finland (real name Touko Laaksonen, 1920–1991) needed to destroy his stylised homoerotic images because of the conservative atmosphere in his home ...

Découvrez l’un des sites urbains en bois parmi les mieux conservés de Finlande : Neristan, un quartier de la ville de Kokkola ...

On a fascinating journey of discovery, we visit an array of Finland-based artists to find out what ideas animate and inform their work. Nature attracts and influences many artists in Finland. They ...

Did you know that the Finns are among the biggest coffee drinkers in the world? We ask a few of them why that is. Who would have guessed? The Finns are among the biggest coffee drinkers in the world, ...

In autumn 2016 Finland’s comprehensive schools adopted a new core curriculum that has in some critical circles been described as the downfall of the world’s best education system. Educational experts ...

Since the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) began in 2000, Finnish 15-year-olds have consistently done well. In the results released in December 2019, Finland lives up to its ...

One of the first things any article about sisu will tell you is that this Finnish word is untranslatable. Authors have been trying to find a parallel in English since at least January of 1940, when ...