Welcome to Mobilia


The automobile and road museum Mobilia is situated at a beautiful site in Kangasala, some 20 kilometres (13 miles) from Tampere city.

The museum is open daily
15.8.–31.5 at 10–16
1.6.–14.8 at 10–20
(Closed on 6.–9.4., 17.5., 22.6., 3.11., 6.12., 22.12.2012–6.1.2013)

Exhibitions in Mobilia

Theme Exhibition

Every year, Mobilia features an exhibition with a changing theme that describes profoundly one topic at a time in the field of road traffic.

In 2011, an exhibition called Night on the Road (Yölinjalla) depicts the history of the scheduled transport of goods in Finland. On display is heavy machinery of the goods transportation from the 1920s until today, such as trucks that were used in the Petsamo Route. In addition to the motor pool, the exhibition displays transport company Sallinen’s office from the 1970s, film material and scale models. Furthermore, it is possible to try how it feels like to sit behind the wheel of an authentic truck.

Night on the Road is the 60th anniversary exhibition of the Association for Logistics Businesses and the 25th anniversary exhibition of Mobilia trust. The exhibition will be opened on 26th of March 2011 and is open until 30th of November 2011.

Mobilia Classics

In the Mobilia Classics department, visitors are able to admire classic cars in an exhibition space surrounded by glass walls. On display are 26 classic cars. There are vehicles of outstanding men. At the moment, on display is Lincoln that belonged to president J.K. Paasikivi, as well as rarities in global scale such as Mercedes-Benz Waxenberger. Cars on display are changed from time to time. In close connection with the classic car exhibition we offer other Mobilia Classics Services, including storage space rental services, car restoration and rental services, as well as selling classic cars as an agent.

Rally Hall of Fame
Rally Hall of Fame is an internationally unique exhibition that depicts international rally stars and rally cars. Every year, successful rally sport drivers or other important people in rally sport are nominated to the Hall of Fame in connection with Finnish World Championship Rally. The first motor sport names that were nominated to the Rally Hall of Fame were Erik Carlsson, Paddy Hopkirk, Rauno Aaltonen and Timo Mäkinen. In 2011, Walter Röhrl and Hannu Mikkola were nominated to the gallery.

In the Rally Hall of Fame project, Mobilia’s partner is AKK Motorsport ry. (a member in Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile). Even though this is a Finnish project, the principle is that the gallery must depict rally accomplishments objectively in the whole world. This is why nominations to the Hall of Fame are made by an international committee. The members of the committee are: Kari O. Sohlberg (AKK board director), Michele Mouton (former top driver, promoter and FIA Women & Motor Sport committee chairperson), Neil Duncanson (Rally World Championships promotion company director), Martin Holmes (veteran journalist) and Pekka Honkanen (Director of Sports Museum Foundation in Finland).

Other services

Rahtarit Traffic Park

In the summertime, Mobilia’s Rahtarit traffic park offers children aged 4 to 12 an opportunity to learn how to behave properly in traffic. With the help of an instructor, children can practice the rules of the road both as pedestrians and as pedal car drivers. There are 10 pedal cars available in the traffic park. There are both light and heavy traffic vehicles available.

Barrack village
Mobilia’s barrack village is an outdoor exhibition that describes mobile work sites and barrack villages that were a central part of Finnish road construction and unemployment management in the 1950s and 1960s. In the mobile work sites, the workforce was very large, and it reached its peak in winter 1958-1959, when there were more than 50,000 unemployed people working there. 16,000 of them took lodgings in the barracks. The barrack village has got barracks for many purposes; for apartments, offices, tools, eateries and even laboratories. Later on the mobile buildings were used as warehouses, restrooms, and traffic counter's huts. The barracks that are now in Mobilia’s area have been transported from the road districts of Savo-Karjala and Turku. Groups can order guided tours to the barrack village.

Rent a car
In the summertime you can embark on a nostalgic drive by renting a small nostalgia car (options include e.g. VW Beetle, Anglia and Saab 96). You can rent a car for a couple of hours or for a longer time. Also available for rent are executive classic cars, they are always driven by Mobilia’s own driver.

And more...

In Mobilia you can also find a bathing beach and a playground for the little ones. In the near vicinity of Mobilia are also a lookout spot, a summer theatre and a guest marina. You can take refreshments and have delicacies on the terrace of Mobilia café nearby the lake Längelmävesi.