About the Museum

The Finnish Museum of Car and Road Mobilia is the national museum responsible for its special field, roads, and road traffic. The museum is situated by lake Längelmävesi in Kangasala, Finland, about half an hour drive from the city of Tampere. The museum is open to visitors all year around. There is also a cafeteria, a museum shop and playground and beach facilities for children. Mobilia’s exhibitions include a permanent exhibition on the construction and use of Finnish roads, the Rally Museum, an outdoors exhibition on the use of emergency labor for road construction, an annually changing main exhibition on aspects of everyday road traffic, and a classic car gallery exhibiting various mostly privately owned cars. The museum also offers various services for car owners, like conservation, maintenance, and storage. Museum clients can also acquire collections services including storage, cataloging, research, and consulting. Mobilia offers also professional consulting services to the Finnish Traffic Agency on their historical collections housed in Mobilia and traffic related historical landmarks owned by the Agency. The director of the museum is Heidi Rytky (since 2012) and previous directors were Kimmo Levä (1994-2011) and Martti Piltz (1992-1994).