Easter in Riihimäki: domestic animals, fishing and circus tricks

Riihimäki dresses up for spring in many ways, as Easter is celebrated with the help of several actors for the 26th time. The park services have decorated the train station roundabout with traditional sun and Easter egg decorations, and little yellow daffodils are appearing in pots all over the city.

Park manager Saila Nummela says that instead of feathers, ecological, biodegradable ribbons of different colors will be tied to the willows this year. Willow logs will be placed in front of the station along the green lane and along the dirt road leading to the city museum. A few old willow owls decorated with feathers are still intact, and they will be taken to the city museum.

The spring city event offers experiences and joyful activities throughout Easter from Maundy Thursday to Easter Monday, i.e. 6-10.4.2023 April 8.4, but the most happens on Saturday XNUMX April. In the yard of the Riihimäki City Museum.

Lovely alpacas, pigs and sheep

Cultural producers Lyti Aaltonen and Asta Kohonen say that there will be alpacas from the Kamppi farm between 10 am and 15 pm. From Hemböle's livestock yard comes a pony, a donkey, a mini pig, chickens, ducks and sheep. You can stroke them and take photos with them.

"Last year at Easter, a lot of people visited the city museum. There were many families with children, and many said they had come from elsewhere when they heard about the event from a family they knew from Riksusa," says Aaltonen.

Last Easter, Kohonen was with his daughter as a customer at an Easter event, not yet as an organizer. He praises the warm spirit and good mood of the event, where the animals were an absolute favorite. It was nice for both kids and adults.

On Saturday, the Riihimäki City Museum's program stage will feature a 45-minute performance by the clown Dodo, who combines funny mimicry and silly circus tricks with making music. Other performers who offer programs for the whole family will take the stage, for example a dance studio.

In the museum yard, as before, there is also angling, mammi tasting and a cafe where Easter-colored cupcakes, hodars and Easter-themed flower arrangements are for sale. In the yard area there is a little activity for children and signs of spring bingo.

"We are giving out small bags with sunflower seeds made from old Aku Ducks by activity center Rivaka to the townspeople. You can plant the seeds in a pot on the balcony or in your own yard," says Kohonen.

Bongaa Trulli and take a picture!

You should be careful at the museum, because the Riihimäki Youth Theater's mysterious Easter trolls or witches also move around on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 13 p.m. If you take a selfie with Trulli and share it on social media with #trullibongattu #rnt, you will get paid by Trulli.

All museums in Riihimäki invest in Easter programs for families, especially on Saturday 8.4 April. and on Sunday 9.4 April, when people under 18 can enter for free. The Finnish Glass Museum has tissue paper crafts and Easter-themed activities. The grounds of the Finnish Museum of Glass and the Finnish Hunting Museum share a playful task track.

The Riihimäki art museum has crafts and beautiful old Easter eggs from the Tatjana and Pentti Wähäjärvi art museum's collection of antiques have been displayed.

The event spreads widely across the city. Pieni Lelukauppa organizes an egg hunt, face painting and a magic show. The netball club organizes an Easter market at Graniiti square. Tivoli Seiterä is there, the parish has its own program and the youth center Monar has craft workshops for children. In Gallery Tärinä, you can meet the Easter Bunny and try to find paper Easter eggs in the exhibition.

Much familiar, little new

Kohonen and Aaltonen state that the city has coordination responsibility for Easter, but it is created through the cooperation of many parties. Everyone has seen trouble in ideation and implementation, and want to be involved in Easter. It opens the spring of events and gets people in the mood. We passed the winter, spring, sun and light will come!

"We don't dare to reform the popular event much, because the people of Riihimäki expect Easter to be a warm, homey, communal, not branded, down-to-earth hygge event," Kohonen sums up.

But you can come up with so many new things that on Saturday you can dress up as a bunny, witch or other Easter character for the event, and as a reward you will get a little surprise from the mommy point of the city museum.

Reija Ypyä

More information
Easter program on the city's website