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Helsinki City Museum

The museum covers a whole series of old buildings around Helsinki, but the centrepiece is the (short) street of Sofiankatu itself, carefully restored as a replica of the 1930s.

Address: Aleksanterinkatu 16
Price: Free
Website: helsinginkaupunginmuseo.fi (opens in a new tab)

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