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. The event will be held outdoors—even in bad weather. There will be no seating available. If you’d like, you can bring a folding chair or a blanket.
Registration has closed.
You can participate the program without registration, but refreshments and the guided tour are for registered participants only.
Farewell to Mattilanniemi event program
4:00 p.m. The event will start in Mattilanniemi, in the courtyard between Buildings B and C
Opening words, chair of the cultural group, Professor Pauline von Bonsdorff
Memories from the years at Mattilanniemi, Improvisational Theatre JOO!
Memorial words, member of the cultural group, Associate Professor Hannele Harjunen
Memories from the years at Mattilanniemi, Improvisational Theatre JOO!
Picking a plant to be replanted in Agora
Music, Vocal ensemble Äänes
Procession to the Agora lawn
Replanting words by Vice Rector Marja-Leena Laakso
Music, Vocal ensemble Äänes
4:45 p.m. Refreshments in the Agora lobby (for registered participants)
About 5 p.m. Guided tour of the Mattilanniemi garden for registered tour participants, guided by botanical garden Coordinator Hanna Keljo.
The tour starts from Agora lawn on the lake side.
PLEASE NOTE: The garden tour is not easily accessible.
Please also note
Prior to the farewell event the opening of the exhibition: A Campus for all - The Jyväskylä University’s disappearing Mattilanniemi Campus 1980-2026 at the Kipinä Gallery of the Soihtu Museum Center in the building S. More info about the exhibition here.
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.
