Aikamatka 20360 was a community art project built in Runosmäki, with nearly 300 volunteers participating in its creation.

Travel from the waves of the early oceans to Stone Age caves, from mystical Mayan temples to the flourishing of Ancient Greece and from the nostalgic 60s towards alternative images of the future – all the way to the year 20360.

 

Aikamatka 20360 was a comprehensive spatial art piece that filled the empty space of Runosmäki's former library and youth center with art from floor to ceiling. The work consisted of installations, wall paintings, sculptures, sound works and word art, which together formed a journey from the birth of the earth to the faraway future.

The work of art, made almost entirely of recycled materials, was built during 2024 by around 300 volunteer participants under the leadership of community artists Pia and Sophia Bartsch. Aikamatka 20360 was open for public from March to August 2025 and during autumn holiday 2025.

Aikamatka 20360 in social media

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Since no theory has proven the impossibility of time travel, it must therefore be possible. Hop on board! Travel to the past, at the moment when a gap opens in space-time. You can get to the future if you accelerate the device to travel faster than light. Remember not to tamper with the past. We can only influence the course of the future, even to a limited extent.

 
Image of the bookshelf from Aikamatka 20360, with books, objects and a crocodile statue. (Picture: Jussi Virkkumaa)
The Alchemist's Study
Image: Jussi Virkkumaa

 

Picture from the room in Aikamatka "60s kitchen", where the kitchen is decorated in the style of the 60s. (Picture: Jussi Virkkumaa)
Finland in 1960's.
Image: Jussi Virkkumaa

 

Photo Time travel from the work "Olkiluoto 20619", with a messy and abandoned office room. (Picture: Jussi Virkkumaa)
Olkiluoto 20619.
Image: Jussi Virkkumaa

 

Image from the time travel book "Laboratory of the Future", where a blue alien figure made of recycled materials sits in a white jacket next to a microscope. (Picture: Jussi Virkkumaa)
Laboratorium of the future.
Image: Jussi Virkkumaa

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After nine months of construction, the site-specific installation Aikamatka [Time journey] 20360 will open to the public on Saturday 1 March.