Gunnar & Birger – The Grandfathers’ Museum

Experience a unique theatre performance at the Worker’s Museum on 20–21 May. Tickets are on sale now!

Gunnar & Birger – The Grandfathers’ Museum is a performance about grandfathers. Grandfathers who could make meatballs and grandfathers who joked about everything. Our close, distant, serious, dutiful, brave, enigmatic, unfaithful, kind grandfathers.

The performance moves through the Worker’s Museum, filling the rooms with stories and unreliable memories of four Finnish grandfathers, of Helsinki a hundred years ago and more recently. About dust. How do our grandfathers speak within us, within our bodies?

Performance times

Wednesday 20 May at 18.00 and 20.00
Thursday 21 May at 18.00 and 20.00

Tickets

Tickets €22. Coffee service is included in the ticket price. The performance is in Finnish and Swedish. It is experienced standing up and walking around the Worker’s Museum, and its grounds. The performance is not wheelchair accessible. Read more and buy tickets.

Working group

Idea and concept: Kivelä & Kivelä
Performers: Riina Huhtanen, Jenni Kivelä, Malin Kivelä, Paul Olin, Lau Nau
Music: Lau Nau
Production: Helsingfors stadsmuseum, Kivelä & Kivelä, Kiltit ihmiset ry
Supported by: City of Helsinki, The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, Amos Anderson Fund, Teaterstiftelsen Vivicas Vänner, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Eugène, Elisabeth och Birgit Nygréns stiftelse

Photo: Henri Tuomi / Helsinki City Museum