Hotel and Restaurant Museum, Specialized museum in Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland.
The Hotel and Restaurant Museum is located in the Cable Factory and displays a large collection of objects from the history of Finnish hospitality and dining. The exhibition spreads across multiple rooms featuring furniture, dishes, and fixtures from different periods of Finnish restaurant and hotel life.
The museum was founded in 1971 to document the development of Finnish hospitality over more than a century. Its move to the Cable Factory in 1993 allowed for a larger exhibition space and the growth of its photographic and documentary archive.
The place shows how people once dined and gathered in restaurants and bars across different decades of Finnish life. Visitors can observe how social eating and drinking became woven into the everyday habits and identity of the country.
The museum is located within the Cable Factory industrial area and is easily accessible by public transportation. Visitors should plan enough time to explore the different exhibition rooms, as the collection spans a broad range of spaces and periods.
The museum houses a complete collection from a former Alko store, representing Finland's historic state monopoly on alcohol sales. This collection tells the story of an economic system that shaped how people once purchased beverages in the country.
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