The IPA 2023 Welcoming Reception will be held in Vapriikki museum. Please book 30 minutes of walking time from Tampere Hall. With a picturesque location beside the Tammerkoski rapids, Vapriikki is a museum centre that offers things to see and do for the whole family. Vapriikki is also home to the Natural History Museum of Tampere, the Mineral Museum, the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame, Postal Museum and The Finnish Museum of Games. Vapriikki is housed in the old Tampella factory hall, a linen mill, whose oldest parts date back to the 1880s. On top of everything, you have free entry to an exhibition called 'Once Upon a Time, a Story of the Origin of Fairy Tales' that is located at Vapriikki. → Read more here.