Guided tour (en), The Aalto House

Visit Alvar Aalto’s home on a guided tour! 

Suomenkielinen kierros on tuote Opastettu kierros, Alvar Aallon kotitalo.

The history and architecture of Aalto’s unique home, located in Munkkiniemi area in Helsinki, opens up through the stories the guide has to share.  The tour lasts an hour and includes both the guided tour itself and free time to enjoy the special atmosphere in the house and explore the museum shop.

Maximum number of visitors is limited to 15 per tour. Schedule for the rest of the year will be confirmed later. Enquiries: shop@alvaraalto.fi

• You may purchase your ticket by choosing the number of tickets and then clicking the date and time in the calendar below
• Guided tours are usually in English
• Please notice when completing the payment that your credit card provider doesn’t have any restrictions to certain countries (for example Finland). Restrictions may cause the payment to fail.
• After you have proceeded to checkout and paid your order, we will check your order and you ‘ll receive the e-ticket straight into your inbox.
• The ticket is only valid for the designated time. Please don’t be late for your tour!
• Please select your visit hour carefully, tickets cannot be refunded!
• Feel free to visit us when you feel well. If you feel ill, please contact and we can change your ticket for another date.
• Please make sure you pay your booking immediately – due to high demand, the reservation will be automatically cancelled within 15 minutes if no payment is made
• If you have purchased a concession ticket, you must show the relevant documentation (e.g. a student card, Docomomo card) on site
• Group bookings only by email: contact hello@alvaraalto.fi
• Pre-sale of tickets in our online shop ends 1 hour before the tour. Possible unsold tickets are available on-site before each tour

In 1934, Aino and Alvar Aalto acquired a site in almost completely untouched surroundings at Riihitie in Helsinki’s Munkkiniemi. Aino and Alvar Aalto designed the building, whose simple, natural materials soften the form language of modern architecture. Designing their own home gave them an opportunity to make various structural and material experiments. The Aalto House was completed in August 1936. Aalto’s architect’s office was in this building in Munkkiniemi until 1955.

Alvar Aalto lived in the house on Riihitie up until his death on 1976, and the building was used by the family long afterwards.The house, protected by the Act on the Protection of Buildings, is now part of the Alvar Aalto Foundation. Nowadays, the building is a home museum open to the public.