Cultural offerings

Diversity of culture is cherished in Valamo Monastery

The Cultural Center offers, among other things, exhibition spaces for the monastery's historical artifacts and temporary exhibitions. Valamo Monastery library, specialized in Orthodox culture and theology, serves the brotherhood, researchers, and students, as well as all monastery guests and those seeking information. Valamo's Residency offers artists a bridge between everyday life and inspiration. The monastery's natural silence and simplicity provide an antidote to a society that embraces the ethos of performance and consumption. Our residency provides space to think and time to create something new. Or to finish something incomplete.

Valamo Monastery's Archive

One of Valamo Monastery's greatest treasures is its extensive archive. The monastery's archive has been operating in New Valamo since 1941.

Cultural Center

Valamo Cultural Center provides facilities for diverse activities. The Cultural Center houses exhibition and meeting facilities, a library, and an archive.

Valamo's Residency

Valamo's Residency offers artists a bridge between everyday life and inspiration.

Library

Valamo Monastery's library is a special library that serves the monastic brotherhood, the college, staff, and the monastery's guests, researchers, students, and other information seekers.

Valamo Kustannus

Valamo Kustannus publishes high-quality literature related to Orthodox cultural heritage

Monastery Museum

The Monastery Museum presents the history of the monastery and its ecclesiastical artifacts.

"Valamo Monastery has traditionally engaged in cultural activities. The old monastery was known as a peasant monastery, but in the brotherhood's workshops, icons were painted, photography and bookbinding were practiced. Manuscripts were copied in the cells. Valamo Monastery began publishing printed books as early as the 1860s."

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Valamo Monastery is open year-round. Services' visiting hours vary by season.

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Cultural offerings