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The Cable Factory was inaugurated in the Ruoholahti district of Helsinki in 1943. The premises were built in stages between 1939 and 1954, and on completion were the largest building in Finland. At first marine cables were manufactured at the Cable Factory. Later on, Finland’s first supercomputer was located there.
The Cable Factory is a cultural centre that benefited from the deindustrialization process in Helsinki. In 1989, the building was transformed from an obsolete industrial space into a cultural centre due to a social and cultural movement called Pro Kaapeli. For over 30 years, the Cable Factory has hosted a proactive community that is committed ...
After those discussions it was decided that the main focuses of The Cable Factory would be visual arts, contemporary dance, band rehearsal rooms and that the 3 museums that were elsewhere in Helsinki would move into The Cable Factory and form something like a museum complex inside the building. Currently we have 250 tenants in the building, 130 ...
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The Cable Factory exhibition facilities of the Finnish Museum of Photography are located at the end of the building, the G staircase, Kaapelinaukio 3. You can enter the museum either through the Cable Factory Glass Courtyard or by using the museum's G staircase entrance at the front end of the Cable Factory main building. Both entrances are ...
Cable Factory. The cable factory in Helsinki characterises the changes that took place in industry in Finland, and in other European countries in the course of the 20th century. All cables used in Finland had to be imported until the Suomen Kaapelitehdas Oy (Finnish cable company) was founded in 1912 by Arvid Wikstrom (1886-1937), who had ...
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