Changing perspectives in exhibiting innovations in Finland Kimmo Antila Project Manager, Senior Curator Museum Centre Vapriikki [email protected].

Changing perspectives inexhibiting innovations in Finland

Kimmo AntilaProject Manager, Senior CuratorMuseum Centre [email protected]

Where is Vapriikki?

In Tampere, Largest inland city of Nordic countries (205 000 inhabitants). Located between two scenic lakes in Southern Finland 180 km north from Helsinki.International airport.

A post-industrial city with vibrant cultural and scientific life, successfully conserved and revitalized factory buildings in the city centre.

What is Vapriikki?A museum Centre with permanent and changing exhibitions

13 000 m2

90 permanent employees& people working with severalprojects

Collections: 375 000 items

140 000 visitors/2008

One of the largestmuseums in Finland

Other museums of technology in Tampereand museums in our organisation:The Textile Industry museumThe Media museum RupriikkiThe Shoe museumThe Steam Engine museum (a part of Finnish Museum of Labour)

Active in using and developing new museum technology

-Fogscreen-Using mobile phones in guiding-Rfid-technology and pda-Podcasting-Elearning

Collection database Profium Semantic Information Router, SIR

What we need in technological museums:-Ideas, innovations, theories, knowledge about the current research, new perspectives-Global approach-Stories, new ways of presenting old things

SCOT, LTS, different other innovation theories…

Velomania, centuries of cycling 2007-2008

INNOVATIONS

New modular idea inthe exhibition

New interpretation of the local innovation system

New stories in industrial transformation

New global perspective!

Exhibition project on Finnish innovationsand innovativiness

Focus on the Tampere region

High-tech innovations in Tampere:

1974 NMT phone call, 1978 automatic teller machine, 1984 bioabsorbable implant, 1985 electromechanical film, 1991 GSM phone call, 1993 analogue Cellular Data Card (Nokia),1994 GSM Data Card (Nokia), 1995 walking forest machine (Timberjack)…

Early electrification (1882)

Container handling systemsKalmar industries

Menlo Park (1879)

St. Petersburg (1882)

Paris (1881)

Tampere (1882)

Networks of Power

”Very successful exhibitions have been made at St.Petersburg & at

Tammerford in Finland. Ten plants have been sold there and are in course of installation by Mr. Nottbeck who has Force with him. We are organizing for

souther Russia & Polish Russia.”29.3.1882 Puskas & Bailey to Edison

The thrid part (2010)”Modern innovations”

-Local and global networks-Innovative milieus

      Conferentially yours - Tampere

Welcome to Finland!to a first joint meeting of TICCIH & ICOHTEC

with minor partner WORKLAB

10th –15th of August 2010