The Flora's Day event is open to university staff, students, scholarship researchers and alumni, and invites everyone to celebrate spring and flowers on the Mattilanniemi campus. Flora's Day has been celebrated at the University of Jyväskylä since the time of the teacher seminar.
This year, the university's cultural group is organising a dramatised outdoor event to which all are welcome, providing an opportunity to say goodbye to the Mattilanniemi buildings and outdoor areas that the university is giving up this year.
You can register right away!
Farewell to Mattilanniemi event program
4:00 p.m. Start at Mattilanniemi garden (near the fountain)
Opening speech, chair of the cultural group, Professor Pauline von Bonsdorff
Memories from the years at Mattilanniemi
Memorial speech, member of the cultural group, Associate Professor Hannele Harjunen
Memories from the years at Mattilanniemi
Picking a plant to be replanted in Agora
Music
Procession to the Agora lawn, music
Replanting
Speech by Vice Rector Marja-Leena Laakso
4:45-5:00 p.m. Refreshments in the Agora lobby (for registered participants)
5:00–6:30 p.m. Guided tour of the Mattilanniemi garden for registered participants, guided by botanical garden Coordinator Hanna Keljo
PLEASE NOTE: The garden tour is not easily accessible.
Please also note
Prior to the farewell event the opening of the exhibition: "The Disappearing Campus of Mattilanniemi, University of Jyväskylä 1980-2026" at the Kipinä Gallery of the Soihtu Museum Center in the building S. The link will be published later.
Save your memories
If you have personal memories of the facilities the University of Jyväskylä is giving up (or has already given up), you can save your memories in the Science Museum's archive.
