Helsinki, adjacent to the Baltic Sea, is a city where classical beauty and modern civilization are integrated, and it is also a garden city where urban architecture and natural scenery are skillfully combined. Most of the buildings in the city are light-colored granite, which is known as "Baicheng in the North".
Helsinki is not only the political, economic, cultural and commercial center of Finland, but also the largest port city in Finland, where 50% of the country's imported goods enter Finland. This city, located between the east and the west, also has the largest airport in China, with more than 40 international flights leading to major cities in the world.
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As a city of culture, Helsinki has the largest library and several large museums in China.
The national museum with the best preserved historical sites in Finland mainly introduces Finnish history, prehistory, architectural history and national history. The Athena Museum of Fine Arts has a collection of masterpieces by famous Finnish painters. The municipal museum mainly displays handicrafts with local characteristics of Helsinki. Rebawara Art Museum contains Forrest Shang's paintings with the theme of the epic Karewala.
The open-air Museum of Humanities on the island of Seurat, not far from the city center, displays the clothes, furniture and labor tools of farmers in different periods of Finnish history, and has built18-19th century farmhouses, manors, steam baths, workshops, barns, small country shops, windmills and small rural churches dedicated to exhibitions.
There are also some museums in Helsinki, such as Railway Museum, Customs Museum, War Museum, Post and Telecommunications Museum, Church Museum, Zoology Museum and Qi Art Museum. Founded in 1640, the University of Helsinki is the largest institution of higher learning in Scandinavia and the oldest and largest university in Finland.
Originally founded in the old capital Turku, it was named Turku University, and moved from Turku to Helsinki in 1828. Subsequently, the original name of Turku University was changed to Helsinki University, ranking 78th in the latest world university ranking of 20 13QS.