Helsinki's Central
Library

Why locals love it

Oodi is a lively meeting place at the Kansalaistori, right in the heart of Helsinki. The Library complements the cultural and media hub formed by the Music Center, Finlandia Hall, Sanomatalo and the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma. Oodi is one of the 37 locations in the Helsinki City Library in which has a vast network of Helmet libraries.

Why you should visit it

Oodi provides information, skills and stories for today. It inspires people to learn, interact, live, enjoy and work in a media filled world. At the same time it renews old, an open-air library for all is a living, vivid, cultural and functional meeting place. It offers an open, non-commercial public city space just opposite the Parliament House.