The Traffic Museums Association is a globally unique peer network that creates opportunities for its member museums to revamp and develop their operations and to grow the network and increase their expertise. Our operations focus on networking, peer learning and joint projects that help us to respond to the changes taking place in the museum sector and to promote cross-border operations in the sector.
The Traffic Museums Association looks to the future and makes the museum sector’s responsibility visible. The association strongly believes that networking in the museum sector is important for it to be able to meet the challenges of the future. We work together to develop services and operating models that improve expertise and skills in museums. We share our expertise within the network as well as in the museum sector in general.
The Traffic Museums Association has promoted and enhanced the appreciation and impact of the cultural heritage of the transport and communications sectors amongst the public since 2004. The association’s ten independent member museums operate on eight sites in southern Finland. Five of the member museums are museums with national responsibility and five are specialised museums.
A general grant for cultural heritage organisations has been awarded to the Traffic Museums Association by the Finnish Heritage Agency for the year 2025.
The Traffic Museums Association members are
• Forum Marinum Maritime Centre
• Rupriikki Media Museum
• Mobilia Museum for Road and Motor Transport in Finland
• The Finnish Postal Museum
• Media museum and archive Merkki
• Radio and TV Museum Mastola
• The Finnish Aviation Museum
• The Maritime Museum of Finland
• The Finnish Railway Museum
• The Museum of Technology
The Traffic Museums Association Board of Directors in 2025
The Chair of the Board is Sami Louekari (The Finnish Postal Museum), and the Deputy Chair is Pia Illikainen (The Finnish Aviation Museum).
The other members of the Board are Mika Hautala (Mobilia Museum for Road and Motor Transport in Finland), Outi Penninkangas (Rupriikki Media Museum), Tuulia Tuomi (Radio and TV Museum Mastola), Erik Tirkkonen (The Maritime Museum of Finland), Tiina Lehtinen (The Finnish Railway Museum), Maija Karhu (Forum Marinum Maritime Centre), Anssi Tuulenmäki (The Museum of Technology) and Saila Linnahalme (The Media Museum and Archive Merkki).
Webshop
The association hosts a webshop, where you can find exciting and fun products from all the museums! Ask for international delivery options.
Contact information
The Traffic Museums Association
c/o The Finnish Aviation Museum
Karhumäentie 12, Vantaa
Tel. +358 44 901 7492
E-mail: info (at) trafiikki.fi