Out to Sea – 150 Years of Sailing in Helsinki

The Helsinki City Museum exhibition titled "Out to Sea – 150 Years of Sailing in Helsinki" at the Hakasalmi Villa look at the maritime past of Helsinki from the perspective of yachting as a pastime. Besides boats, yacht clubs, sailors and boat races, the endangered underwater nature of the Baltic Sea is an important topic. The exhibition will also feature the origin of the Finnish blue cross flag, first used by a yacht club.

More info: Hakasalmi Villa, Mannerheimintie 13d

City Life - Views of Helsinki in the 1930s 1.6. - 4.9.2011

Heikki Aho and Björn Soldan, sons of renowned Finnish writer Juhani Aho, founded Aho & Soldan in 1925. The 1930’s were a golden era for the company, as the two men established themselves as Finland’s most highly regarded documentary filmmakers. They went on to make their mark as photographers as members of the avant-garde ABISS group, whose first exhibition in 1930 represented a sea change in Finnish photography.

The photographs and documentaries in the exhibition at Virka Gallery focus on everyday life in Helsinki, in its many ordinary and extraordinary guises. The works are imbued with a sense of light-hearted optimism as Helsinki prepares for the Olympic Games and a construction boom is changing the face of the city.

More info: Virka Gallery

Monocle: Helsinki is number one in Quality of Life

Helsinki claims the number 1 spot in Monocle’s 2011 Quality of Life survey, which ranks the top 25 cities in the world to call home. Rising from fifth position in 2010, Helsinki outperformed Zürich at number 2 and Copenhagen at number 3 to claim the mantle as the world’s most liveable city. An unorthodox but well-deserving champion, the Finnish capital stands out for its fundamental courage to rethink its urban ambitions, and for possessing the talent, ideas and guts to pull it off.

More info: Check out Monocle's Helsinki video

Are you sweet or salty?

To find out, you may want to try some of these:
Gaijin (Bulevardi 6, Helsinki)
Restaurant Lupolo (Punavuorenkatu 3, Helsinki)
Restaurant Muru (Fredrikinkatu 41, Helsinki)
Cafe Engel (Classic cafe reopened again after the renovation)
Chef&sommelier (They concentrate on organic food at Huvilakatu 28, Helsinki)
Restaurant Saaristo (The best view of Helsinki opens from the island of Klippan, open during the summer time only. Try the Slow Sunday brunch)
K17 Kitchen Cocktail (Kalevankatu 17, Helsinki)
Cafe Mattolaituri (Ehrenströmintie 3 A, Helsinki)
Paven (Island of Pentala, Espoo)

Check these out also.