"Head in the Clouds" is an exhibition about the world of clouds.
Pää pilvissä (Head in the clouds)
Children’s Cultural Center Louhimo is bringing the traveling exhibition to the Kalevan Navetta multipurpose space in Itikka for the first time, from October 17 to November 15, 2026. The exhibition is part of Louhimo’s 20th-anniversary program.
The Pää pilvissä exhibition takes us on a journey to the world of clouds. The exhibition offers information about clouds and features surrealistic three-dimensional clouds, photographs, paintings, puppets and silhouettes. There is also a cloud that you can crawl into and clouds that you can hold and hug.
If clouds made a sound, what would it be like? The music in the exhibition consists of the low growls of a foghorn, summery tunes of cumulus clouds, the melancholy of a grey altostratus cloud, the slowly retreating rumble of a thundercloud and the peaceful sounds of a light-reflecting cirrocumulus cloud. Can you match the music with the clouds?
The world of clouds is the atmosphere. There is a lot to be learned about clouds. How are clouds formed? What can clouds tell us? Can you predict tomorrow’s weather from the clouds? What sayings are there about the colours and shapes of the sky? Do the changes in the atmosphere affect clouds? What would life be like without cloud-shaped pollution? Do we have our heads in the clouds?
Each cloud on display has an interesting name, such as untuvapilvi (cirrus cloud), palleropilvi (cirrocumulus), harsopilvi (cirrostratus), hahtuvapilvi (altocumulus), utarepilvi (mammatus) and jalaspilvi (cirrus uncinus).
The exhibition also includes fairy tales and stories related to clouds, and you can learn about two artists famous for their cloud paintings: Fanny Churberg and René Magritte.
We hope that after the exhibition you will see clouds in an entirely new light. You may even take up cloudspotting!
Admission to the exhibition is free, and it is open to everyone.
The exhibition is open Mon–Fri from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sat from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. (Excluding any private events)