Use of buildings at night

Authorised night-time use

Practice hour for the main organ at the Helsinki Music Centre

If you are a student at the Sibelius Academy and have been granted practice time for the main organ at the Helsinki Music Centre, you may use the Concert Hall between 05:00 and 06:00. Use of other facilities during night-time hours is not permitted.

Kuvan Kevät students

If you are participating in Kuvan Kevät Master’s Degree Show, you are allowed to work at night starting one week before the exhibition installation begins. Night-time work is only permitted in your personal workspace. Workshops, studios and exhibition facilities are not available for use at nighttime. For more information, please contact the exhibition curator.

Piano tuners and organ teachers

Piano tuners have automatic permission to work in the buildings between 05:00 and 06:00.

Organ teachers who are authorised to play the main organ at the Helsinki Music Centre may use the Concert Hall between 05:00 and 06:00. Use of other facilities during night-time hours is not permitted.

Support services for artistic activities

Staff members working for support services for artistic activities are authorised to move in the Helsinki Music Centre side of the building using their access tags during night-time hours. The Sibelius Academy side of the property is closed. Use of the facilities is permitted only for production-related transport and set-up needs.

Applying for a permission for nighttime use

If a person needs to use facilities outside of the official opening hours, a teacher of a course or a curator of an exhibition submits an application on behalf of the whole group. As for employees, the unit supervisor is the one submitting the application. As for the Student Union, the secretary general is the one submitting the application.  

An individual employee or a student cannot submit an application for nighttime use by themselves. 

There needs to be a justified reason to authorise the nighttime use of facilities, and the application must be submitted at least one month before the start of the night-time use of facilities. Applications are submitted to Facilities Manager Kari Karlsson (kari.karlsson@uniarts.fi), who will process them in cooperation with the academy dean.

Returning instruments to the Helsinki Music Centre

You can return instruments and equipment during night-time hours, i.e. between 23:30 and 06:00, via the loading dock or the entrance on the Kansalaistori side of the Helsinki Music Centre. Keys or night-time codes for entering the building do not work at the Helsinki Music Centre at night; instead, a security guard will let you into the building.

Only the second-floor storage is in use for returning instruments and equipment. Storage rooms or halls on other floors are not available at night.

How to use Kansalaistori Square side of the building at nighttime

• When you arrive at the entrance by the Kansalaistori Square, call the security control centre, tel. 020 7070 420 
• A security guard will come and accompany you to the second-floor storage room 
• When you leave, a security guard will escort you out of the building

How to use the loading dock at nighttime

You can enter the loading dock using the Aimo Park entrance gate on Karamzinranta 2 (the street behind Finlandia Hall).   

The folding doors are open

• Mon-Sat: 07:00–22:00 
• Sun: 08:00–22:00 
• At nighttime, drive close to the gate and the gate will open automatically

Drive into the tunnel and take the first right.   

You will arrive at the doors leading to the loading dock of the Helsinki Music Centre. The doors will be opened for you after you have called the security control centre, tel. 020 7070 420. 

Go through the doors and turn right to go to the upper floor. You will then arrive at the loading dock. 

The entrance, door K1201a, is on the left side of the loading dock. Call the security control centre, tel. 020 7070 420, and they will open the door for you. 

You can find the service lift on the right side of the door. Take the lift to the 2nd floor and move your items and instruments to the storage room.

You can exit the Helsinki Music Centre by the same route via the loading dock. The doors in the tunnel will open automatically. 

For more information on the use of the loading dock and how to access it, please contact the Sibelius Academy info desk at the Helsinki Music Centre.

Give feedback

You are welcome to send feedback on opening hours and your views on the effects of the change on musical instruments, for example, using the general feedback form on the Students’ Uniarts website. 

The feedback is forwarded to the right persons within the facilities team, and they will contact the person who gave the feedback.