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.
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.
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.
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Photographer Päivi Setälä’s exhibition at the Peräseinä gallery in Kruunupää features light-sensitive treasures created using traditional printing techniques. Laundry flutters through the century and is revealed by sunlight in anthotypes and cyanotypes. Uncontrollability and unpredictability are part of the creation of these images. The finished images are light-sensitive and may fade during the exhibition. Admission to the exhibition is free for all ages.
Have you visited the new Kulturhuset Fiin yet? Now you can, in honour of Porin Päivä, in the local dialect and free of charge! Sign up via the link – places are limited! Guided by Elina Wallin.
How should you prepare your compost bin for winter to ensure that composting runs as smoothly as possible all year round? The composting guide explains how a compost bin works throughout the different seasons.
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.
Pori Sinfonietta’s traditional Porin Päivä concert is, this year, a concert featuring young soloists. No fewer than 14 young musicians will be taking part, all of whom were selected for the concert following auditions in spring 2026. The musicians range in age from 7 to 18, and the instruments featured include the violin, cello, guitar, piano, trumpet, accordion, trombone and flute.
Each soloist will perform a piece or movement of a concerto of their choice with the Pori Sinfonietta. The concert will be conducted by Chief Conductor Erkki Lasonpalo.
The concert’s soloists are pupils from the Palmgren Conservatoire, Rauma Music School, Huittinen Music School and Vakka-Suomi Music School.
Before the concert begins, a performance by students of the Palmgren Conservatoire, entitled ‘Aulasoitto’, will take place in the foyer of the Promenadisali. It begins at 6.00 pm.
The following young soloists will perform at the concert:
Amanda Azzola, 12, violin (Palmgren Conservatoire) Horia Chirciu, 13, piano (Palmgren Conservatoire) Annabel Heikola, 12, piano (Palmgren Conservatoire) Samuel Heikola, 14, accordion (Palmgren Conservatoire) Vera Hülber, 17, flute (Vakka-Suomi Music School) Johannes Nieminen, 14, cello (Rauma Music School) Elsa Niskala, 17, guitar (Rauma Music School) Milja Paukkunen, 15, violin (Palmgren Conservatoire) Jooseppi Pyykkö, 12, piano (Vakka-Suomi Music School) Lumia Rantala, 17, flute (Palmgren Conservatoire) Haruki Sahi, 18, violin (Palmgren Conservatoire) Peetu Salmi, 15, trombone (Huittinen Music School) Isla Suvanto, 8, violin (Palmgren Conservatoire) Toivo Talasma, 14, trumpet (Huittinen Music School)
