Porin Päivä 2026 programme

Nooralotta is making breakfast

Price: 6 euros
Includes, amongst other things, Puhdas+ Magnesium water

Come along!

Pori products on sale at reduced prices at the Pori Leijona shop!

Pori tea, 3 bags for 10 €
Pori hipsters & boxers, 2 pairs for 10 €

Lots of other much-loved Pori products also for sale.

Exploring the colours and materials in The Experiential Colour Workshop for Babies is exciting. How do you make paint that pleases the eye, the fingers and the surface being painted? The question is whether the paint retains its colour, fades or even changes completely. On display are works from The Experiential Colour Workshop for Babies workshops for babies aged 4–11 months, as well as trays created from these works, on which the colour tones have been preserved exactly as they were immediately after completion. Admission to the exhibition is free on weekdays during the health centre’s opening hours, and it is organised by the Kruunupää Centre for Children’s Culture.

Hey baby, shake your booty! Throw your nappy up in the air and let your hair down. Surrender to the disco rhythms of Baby Day at the Kruunupää Centre for Children’s Culture! The free Baby Disco is aimed at families with babies and toddlers, and you can take part at your own pace. At Kruunupää, you’ll have the chance to meet friends, look after your baby, eat at your own pace and marvel at the art. Come and experience the disco vibe!

The ‘Tuu juttelee’ benches are meeting places situated in various parts of Pori, inviting people to stop, sit down for a moment and catch up with one another. The aim of the benches is to foster a sense of community, reduce loneliness and provide low-threshold opportunities for encounters in everyday life.

The launch event will feature various organisations, with whom you can have a casual chat without needing to book in advance or have a specific reason.

On Friday, people will be available to chat from 10.00–12.00 on all benches except the one at Kallo. You can meet them on the bench at the swimming pool from 16.00–17.00.
On Saturday, the chat hosts will be in Pihlava from 10.00 to 11.00, in Noormarkku from 10.00 to 13.00, at the library from 11.00 to 14.00 and in Eteläpuisto from 12.00 to 14.00.

Come and sit down for a moment and have a quick chat. Sometimes even a brief chat can brighten up your day.

Porin Päivä’s open day and photography exhibition, where you can discover Pori through the eyes of an immigrant.

If your soul is nourished by beauty, interior design, the charm of stunning vintage items and high-quality artisan products, you’re welcome to come and make some unique discoveries at our pop-up market over the Porin Päivä weekend!

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See you for the most atmospheric autumn shopping experience!

On ‘Night of the Fake Porilais’, restaurants and cafés in Pori create their own ‘fake Porilais’ – honouring history and drawing inspiration from Pori’s heritage.
As dusk falls on Porin Päivä, the city’s corners, pubs and restaurants will be taken over by FAKE PORI RESIDENTS’ NIGHT on 25 & 26 September 2026, in accordance with the restaurants’ own opening hours!

No toast, no hunting sausage, but definitely Pori-style. On the Night of the Fake Pori Locals, Pori’s restaurants and cafés will create their own ‘fake Pori locals’ – honouring history and drawing inspiration from Pori’s unique character. Why not try them all!

The following venues will be creating their own ‘fake Pori specialities’: Amarillo, BBQ & Spirit House Galle, Blåbär by Huikoo, Café Anton, Caffe Locale, Coffee House, Kalevi Bar & Kitchen, Kauppahallin LettuKahvela, Morris and Mary, Beer Hunter’s Brewery Restaurant, Petras Café, Päng Thai Bistro, Rosso, The Black Horse, Torero, Trattoria Dante by Galle, Turo’s Heavy Kebab, Vinko, Winston & Yrjönkatu 10

Porin Päivä’s lunch menu also features Pori specialities!

- Cheesy smoked poro soup L, G
- Pori specialities L
- Minced meat lasagne L Finland
- French fries M, G

Welcome!

On Friday, at Korsman’s House, you can enjoy a cup of authentic pot-brewed coffee and a piece of sweet bun to dip in it, all for next to nothing. A cosy and nostalgic atmosphere thrown in for free!

Korsman House is situated in the grounds of the Building Preservation Centre Toivo.

The summer exhibition ‘Building with Clay in Satakunta’ showcases the use of unfired clay in construction, as well as the history and techniques of clay construction in Finland, particularly from a Satakunta perspective. In the courtyard, you can try walking on stilts, and there are plenty of activities to enjoy in the playroom. Art from Viikkari is on display in the courtyard gallery for the rest of this weekend.

There is a packed programme for Pori Day and admission to Pori’s museums is free from Friday to Sunday, 25–27 September. The Ark Nature Centre is open from 11.00 to 17.00.

There is a packed programme for Pori Day and, in keeping with tradition, admission to Pori’s museums is free from Friday to Sunday, 25–27 September. The Rosenlew Museum is open from 11.00 to 17.00.

To mark the 20th anniversary of the Rosenlew Museum, we are presenting video footage, some of which has never before been shown in public. The highlights include top-of-the-range products from the metal industry, a light-hearted promotional film about a threshing machine, a slightly more serious annual review of the company, and, as a grand finale, a tour of the original Rosenlew Museum led by the museum’s founder, Olavi Koskinen, a local history councillor.

1. Sampo 40 high-capacity combine harvester: This sales video showcases the Sampo 40 combine harvester, which was manufactured in Pori between 1971 and 1973. Sampo guarantees a good harvest! Duration: 20 mins.
2. Foundry presentation: The Pori engineering workshop and foundry have produced a wide variety of objects and goods over the years. What was being made at the foundry in 1986? Duration: 13 mins.
3. Rosenlew Annual Review 1985–1986: What was 1985 like for the Rosenlew Group, and what were the future prospects according to Magnus Savander, Managing Director of Oy W. Rosenlew Ab? Duration: 16 mins.
4. Olavi Koskinen at the Rosenlew Museum in 1999: What did the company’s private museum look like before the current Rosenlew Museum was established? Duration: 17 mins.

Porin Päivä Saturday 26 September 2026 will mark exactly one hundred years since the opening of the Pori Bridge. To mark this anniversary, the Satakunta Museum will be exhibiting original bridge drawings during the Pori Days festival; these were produced for the Pori Bridge design competition in 1924. Among the items on display is the winning entry from the competition, which was, however, never realised.

The bridge drawings are on display next to the Taavi Stage at the Satakunta Museum from Thursday to Sunday, 24–27 September. The Taavi Stage will also be screening the film *Pori’s New Bridge*, which was completed in 1926, the year the bridge was opened.

There is a packed programme for Pori Day and, in keeping with tradition, admission to Pori’s museums is free from Friday to Sunday, 25–27 September. The Satakunta Museum is open from 11.00 to 18.00.

The joint poster shop run by the Pori-Seura and the Satakunta Museum is open in the museum’s Kamari room. Posters from the years 1984–2026 are on sale. The number of posters varies; for some years there are none at all, for others just a few, and for others hundreds. Old posters cost €5 each and new ones €15 each. Come and discover some treasures!

Also on sale are the club’s overalls badges at €3 each, caps at €25 each, Pori pennants at €65 each, and a special batch of Porin Päivä T-shirts at €22. The design for the 2026 poster and T-shirt was created by Petra Wolff-Santaharju.

A walk along Museokuja takes you through the 15-year history of Porisperen through the lens of photographer Tomi Palsa. Palsa has followed the festival year in year out, with only one summer missing from his collection of photographs. The moments captured by Palsa range from local stars to international names, whilst also revealing the festival’s growth story and the unique spirit of Porisperen.

All the photographs in the exhibition are for sale. Reservations and payment will begin on Wednesday 23 September, following the pre-party at Porin Päivä and Vilkuna’s festival performance, and the photographs will be on sale until 8 pm. Price: €30 per photograph. Photographs from Museokuja can be collected from Tuesday 29 September, once the exhibition has been taken down. There are also some duplicate copies on sale, which can be taken away immediately.

The bookshops at the Satakunta Museum and the Rosenlew Museum are opening on Thursday with some amazing SALE prices. The sale runs from Thursday to Sunday. So come along and snap up your favourites at unbelievably low prices.

The Satakunta Museum is open from Thursday to Sunday from 11am to 6pm, and the Rosenlew Museum from 11am to 5pm.

Have you been thinking about getting a new piercing?
Now’s the perfect time to go for it, as the Underground Store’s piercing campaign is finally here!

Whether you’ve been dreaming of a new piercing in your ear, nose or elsewhere, this promotion is just the thing for you and your mates.
Piercings are available at an amazing promotional price – just €25 each!

Does not apply to dermal piercings. The price includes a plain titanium starter jewellery piece.

So grab a mate and come along to give your look a fresh new twist!

Amado’s 40th-anniversary menu is still available this Porin Päivä weekend (offer ends on 30 September 2026).

The exhibition *Elävä yhteys* (Living Connection) at the old Väinölä shortwave station celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle) by shining a spotlight on its shortwave broadcasts from Pori to other countries. ‘Elävä yhteys’, a site-specific work, uses the medium of installation art to explore the early stages of shortwave radio broadcasting in Pori, as well as the nature of the station building itself and radio waves.

The exhibition takes its name from a speech given by President J. K. Paasikivi at the station’s inauguration ceremony in 1948, in which he used the phrase ‘living connection’ several times when referring to the connection forged between the world and Finland – which was opening up to the world – by shortwave technology, which represented the cutting-edge technology of its time and which Paasikivi called ‘the marvellous invention of our age’.

The Vohveli ice-cream bar is organising an all-you-can-eat ice-cream buffet.
Adults and teenagers: €10.50
Children (primary school age): €7.50

Via, a meeting and function venue, is a beautiful hall with an old-world charm in the centre of Pori. The venue is available to hire for meetings, training sessions and private events.

Come and enjoy the festive atmosphere of Pori Day in the charming surroundings of Toukaritila, with a range of traditional delicacies on offer!
On offer are coffee, pastries, salmon sandwiches, salmon soup and, of course, traditional dishes such as barley porridge and raisin soup.
The weekend will be filled with the flavours of Pori.
The Suuli pancake café is open!
The boutique stocks homeware and gifts.

The Pori Day prize draw is open to all visitors!
Don’t miss out!

For more information, visit fb/ig @toukarintila
Tel. 0505181671

The ‘Tuu juttelee’ benches are meeting places situated in various parts of Pori, inviting people to stop, sit down for a moment and catch up with one another. The aim of the benches is to foster a sense of community, reduce loneliness and provide low-threshold opportunities for encounters in everyday life.

The launch event will feature various organisations, with whom you can have a casual chat without needing to book in advance or have a specific reason.

On Friday, people will be available to chat from 10.00–12.00 on all benches except the one at Kallo. You can meet them on the bench at the swimming pool from 16.00–17.00.
On Saturday, the chat hosts will be in Pihlava from 10.00 to 11.00, in Noormarkku from 10.00 to 13.00, at the library from 11.00 to 14.00 and in Eteläpuisto from 12.00 to 14.00.

Come and sit down for a moment and have a quick chat. Sometimes even a brief chat can brighten up your day.

The Makkarakoski sawmill in Noormarkku was in operation for over 200 years. The current Makkarakoski sawmill was built to replace the sawmill that had been destroyed by fire in 1875. The sawmill’s saw frames came to a halt at the end of the working day in February 1956, and its original machinery and equipment, most of which dated from the 1880s, were left in place. The sawmill museum thus offers a unique insight into the early stages of Finnish industrial history.

Gathering at the Ahlström Voyage exhibition
The exhibition space is not wheelchair accessible. A guided tour lasts approximately 50 minutes.
Admission: €22 / €20 / Museum Card.

Come and celebrate Porin päivä at Kellahden kartano with our revamped à la carte menu! Unlike in previous years, we are now offering a full à la carte menu, so you can come and enjoy whatever you fancy – perhaps just a main course and a dessert to tantalise your taste buds – with or without a table booking. If you’d like to enjoy a more extensive meal, our set menus make it easy.
You can book a table at https://www.kellahdenkartano.fi/tapahtumat/kartanon-syksy-ja-pikkujoulut or simply turn up on the day.

TiedeAreena, the annual science event organised by the Pori University Centre, will take place this year over two days, on 25–26 September 2026.

On Friday, the pre-event celebrations will take place at Beer Hunter’s as part of the Pori Jazz evening. The event will feature a presentation on the Pori Jazz research project and an insight into what made Björk’s performance at Pori Jazz in 1996 so special. The evening will round off with some jazz music.

Welcome!

Marie Jones’s wild comedy, in which an ordinary day that starts off quite normally turns into an incredible whirlwind that will make you laugh and move you. Starring Mira Rastas and Heidi Viljanen.

Grab a friend and come celebrate Pori Day at the legendary nightclub, Punainen Kukko! PK has been entertaining the people of Pori for several decades and has become an important place for friends to meet and spend time together.

During Pori Day weekend, September 25–26, 2026, we have a wide variety of entertainment lined up! On Friday, get ready to sing your heart out as SuperKaraoke takes over the main stage. In addition, our disco will keep the party going with a DJ playing the hottest hits and guaranteed classics well into the early hours of the morning.
On Saturday, Kapteeni Lamminen and his band will take the stage and are sure to get even the most reluctant dancer moving. Alongside the live music, Saturday night will also feature karaoke and a disco with a DJ keeping the beats going.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 | SUPERKARAOKE & DISCO
- Open 22:00–04:00
- Free entry until midnight, 8€ after midnight
- Age limit: 20

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 | LIVE BAND, KARAOKE & DISCO
- Open 22:00–04:00
- Entry 10€
- Age limit: 20

Welcome to celebrate Pori Day with us!