Practical information

Registration closes on 31 October 2023. Please get in touch with office@ne-mo.org if you have any questions.

Register to the conference

The conference ticket includes access to all conference offers, including meals and receptions.

General tickets

• The conference fee is 180 euro.
• Students receive a 50% discount (90 euro). Please present student ID.

Special offers for members of NEMO

• 2 representatives per NEMO member organisations participate free of charge. Please present NEMO membership number.
• Additional delegates from the member organisation pay a discounted fee of 130 euro per person. Please present NEMO membership number.

Special offers for museum colleagues in Lahti and Finland

We want to encourage participation from our colleagues in Finland to connect with their European colleagues. Therefore, we offer reduced fees for:

• People working at Finnish museums and heritage organisations, who receive a 50% discount (90 euro).
• Staff members at museums in Lahti, who attend the conference free of charge.

NEMO's European Museum Conference targets:

• Museum management, museum educators, curators, sustainability managers, researchers and everybody else active in the museum sector.
• Representatives from museum umbrella organisations and museum networks.
• Culture policy makers on national and European level, culture professionals, activists, students, and service providers for museums.

We recommend that you look into your travel to Lahti as soon as possible. Please consider green travel options such as trains or to off-set the carbon emission caused by your travel.

Lahti is located about an hour from Helsinki by train or car. Below we have gathered some information regarding travel options from the website of Visit Lahti.

Train connections from Helsinki Airport to Lahti

After landing at Helsinki airport, you can easily walk from the arrivals hall to the airport’s railway station and stay indoors the entire way. The fastest connections from Helsinki Airport to Lahti take less than an hour with a change in the city Tikkurila.

Check timetables and buy a ticket

Finnlines Ferry to Helsinki or Naantali

Finnlines offers ferry trips from Germany to Helsinki and from Sweden to Naantali. Pack your car and drive onboard. Ports are conveniently located; the port of Helsinki approximately an hour’s drive from Lahti and Naantali is about 3 hours away.

More about Finnlines

Long-distance train and commuter trains from Helsinki

All long-distance passenger trains stop at Lahti.

You can reach Lahti once an hour on Helsinki Regional Transport’s Z commuter train. The journey from Helsinki along the fast track takes an hour.

Regional trains (H trains) travel from Lahti in the directions of Riihimäki–Helsinki and Kouvola–Kotka. They stop at most stations along the way.

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Bus connections to Lahti

Lahti has excellent bus connections from the Helsinki metropolitan area as well as other places in Finland. Lahti Bus Station is located in the Lahti Travel Centre together with Lahti Railway Station.

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The hosting organisation, the Finnish Museums Association has arranged two hotel offers for your stay in Lahti while attending NEMO's European Museum Conference 2023.

To secure one of the discounts refer to the NEMO European Museum Conference when booking.

GreenStar Hotels

GreenStar Hotels offer environmentally friendly accommodation and is the first carbon neutral hotel chain in Finland. Participants can book via lahti@greenstar.fi until 19 October 2023. Use reservation code "Lahti Museum Conference”.

• Single room: 99 euro per night
• Twin room: 109 euro per night

Solo Sokos Hotel Lahden Seurahuone

Use reservation code "BeNEMO2023".

• Solo standard single room: 127 euro per room per night
• Solo standard queen or twin room for single use: 129 euro per room per night