From the ticket desk at Ainola you walk uphill to the house, following the same route that would have been taken by Sibelius and his family, and by visitors such as Leevi Madetoja, Erkki Melartin, Jussi Björling, Thomas Beecham, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Isaac Stern, Yehudi Menuhin and – after Sibelius’s death – by Herbert von Karajan and Birgit Nilsson.
You enter the house through the porch where Sibelius received the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1955.
From the vestibule you enter the drawing-room.

• The dining-room at Ainola
• Art in the dining room of Ainola
• The drawing room at Ainola
• Art in the drawing room at Ainola
• The final study and bedroom
• The kitchen at Ainola
• The library at Ainola
• Art in the library at Ainola
• The books of Ainola
• The upper floor at Ainola