15 best souvenirs to bring home from Finland

Walk into almost any Finnish kitchen and you'll find a Moomin mug in the cupboard, in daily use, not on a shelf. It's a good sign of what makes a Finnish souvenir worth having: it's made for everyone, has great design, and you're likely to use it in your everyday life. 

This article runs through some of the best souvenir ideas. Finnish design from brands like Marimekko and Arabia, only-in-Finland tastes worth bringing home like salmiakki and sea buckthorn, and uniquely handcrafted pieces from a local artist. For each one, you'll find why it's worth buying, where to find it, and roughly what to expect to pay.

Article published: September 2026

There's something quietly satisfying about drinking your morning coffee from a mug with Moomintroll on it. Arabia has been making Moomin-inspired tableware since the 1950s, and the current Teema-based mug design, dating to 1990, has sold tens of millions of units since.

Moomin books, clothing and other apparel are just as easy to find, so there's something for every age and every suitcase, whether it's a story to read aloud or a T-shirt for a Moomin fan back home.

Where: Arabia and Iittala stores, Sokos, Stockmann, Prisma, K-Citymarket, and the Moomin Shops in Helsinki and the Helsinki Airport.
Price range: €25–40

Unikko, the giant poppy print, has been part of Marimekko's collection since 1964, and it's still the pattern most people picture when they think of Finnish design. A tea towel or a small pouch in the print packs flat and doesn't take up much room, which makes it an easy one to fit in even a full suitcase. 

Beyond Unikko, Marimekko's range stretches to clothing, bags and homeware in plenty of other prints, so it's worth a browse if bold poppies aren't quite your thing.

Where: Marimekko stores around the country, or their outlet stores for lower prices.
Price range: €25 for a Marimekko tea towel

Fazer's blue milk chocolate has been made to the same recipe since it launched in 1922, using fresh milk rather than the powdered or condensed milk most chocolate makers rely on, which is part of why it tastes noticeably different from other milk chocolate. The blue wrapper, Pantone 280 C, became Finland's first registered colour trademark in 2001. 

This is a great souvenir because it travels well, it's instantly recognisable to anyone who's spent time in Finland, and it's something Finns themselves adore. If you're looking for a vegan option, try Fazer's Wiener Nougat Almond Pralines.

Where: Any supermarket or kiosk, or the Fazer Visitor Centre in Vantaa.
Price range: €3–5 for a standard bar.

Salmiakki (salty liquorice) gets its sharp, salty edge from ammonium chloride, which is what makes it taste so different from ordinary liquorice elsewhere in the world. It divides opinion even among Finns, but that's exactly why it makes a good souvenir: bring a bag home and see who dares try it.

If you'd rather bring back something gentler, plain soft liquorice (lakritsi) is just as loved in Finland. Panda has been making its liquorice in Vaajakoski since 1927, using the same original recipe and a distinctive shape it later trademarked. Kouvolan Lakritsi, meanwhile, traces its liquorice back to 1945 and still uses a recipe perfected by a British liquorice consultant in 1960. Both salmiakki and lakritsi sit on the same supermarket shelves, so it's easy to bring home a mix of the two.

Where: Any supermarket or kiosk. Fazer, Halva, Panda, and Kouvolan Lakritsi are well-known brands.
Price range: €3–5 a bag.

Rye bread, or ruisleipä, is one of the most beloved foods to Finns, and a taste Finns abroad say they miss first. It's darker, denser and more sour than typical rye loaves, made without the caraway or sweetness common elsewhere, with its tang coming from a slow sourdough fermentation. The traditional shape is reikäleipä, a ring loaf with a hole in the middle, baked so it could be threaded onto a pole and dried near the kitchen ceiling to last through winter, a shape still common on supermarket shelves today.

For longer storage life, look for crispbread (näkkileipä). Thin, crunchy and made from the same sour rye dough, crispbread is a breakfast staple in most Finnish kitchens, usually topped with butter, cheese and a slice of cucumber rather than eaten plain.

Where: Any supermarket. Fazer, Vaasan and Oululainen are popular Finnish brands.
Price range: €2–5.

Kalevala jewellery has its roots in 1937, when writer Elsa Heporauta and a group of Finnish women began making and selling jewellery to fund a statue of a powerful female figure from the Kalevala epic. Many of the designs are close replicas of Iron Age and Viking-era pieces held in the National Museum of Finland, cast in bronze, silver or gold, a link to a Finland that existed centuries before the country itself did. 

The Kalevala collection still draws on those old finds today, alongside newer collections from contemporary Finnish jewellers.

Where: Kalevala's own stores in Helsinki, retailers around Finland, or online at kalevala.fi.
Price range: From around €80 for a small bronze pendant, more for silver or gold.

Cloudberries – lakka or hilla in Finnish – grow wild in peatlands and bogs in northern Finland, with a harvest window of only a few weeks each summer, starting in mid-July in the south and early August further north. Unlike many other berries, cloudberries can't be raked or harvested by machine. Each one has to be picked by hand, and the plants are sensitive to frost and heavy rain, which makes for an unpredictable season. The combination of a short window, remote growing spots and hand-picking is why cloudberries are often considered more luxurious than other berries and jams in Finland. 

The taste is typically described as tart with a honeyed edge. Spoon the jam over vanilla ice cream or warm pancakes for the traditional way to eat it.

Where: Supermarkets, farm shops, and market halls in most towns.
Price range: €5–10 a jar, more for small-batch, wild-picked versions.

The iconic Aalto vase's soft, wave-like curve was designed by architect Alvar Aalto in 1936, as his winning entry to a Karhula-Iittala glass design competition, and the pieces were shown to international acclaim at the 1937 Paris World's Fair. It became known as the Savoy vase after Aalto and his wife Aino used it in the interiors of Helsinki's Restaurant Savoy, which opened that same year. 

Each vase is still mouth-blown by hand at the Iittala glass factory in the town of Iittala, so no two are ever quite identical. It comes in a range of sizes and colours, from clear glass to deep green and copper, so there's a version to suit most tastes and most suitcases.

Where: Iittala stores in Helsinki, department stores like Stockmann, larger supermarkets and airports.
Price range: From around €100 for a small vase, several hundred euros for larger sizes and unique collections.

Wool socks are a genuine everyday item in Finland, not just a winter accessory. Since shoes come off at the door in most Finnish homes, wool socks often go on the moment you step inside, and many people wear them right through the year, not just in the cold months. It's also common for hosts to offer a pair to guests who arrive without their own, so you may find yourself borrowing a pair the moment you visit someone's home or cottage. 

Helsingin Villasukkatehdas, based in eastern Helsinki, keeps that craft alive today, with every pair still inspected by hand before it leaves the factory.

Where: Taito shops, market halls, and craft markets across the country.
Price range: From around €20-30 a pair.

These pieces carry real weight, both in craftsmanship and in story. Duodji refers to traditional Sámi handicraft, historically tied to Sámi life, clothing, tools, and materials drawn from reindeer, wood, horn, and other resources close at hand. The Sámi Duodji trademark, owned by the Sámi and managed by the Saami Council, tells a buyer that a piece is genuine Sámi handicraft made by a Sámi duojár (craftsperson) using traditional materials and techniques. A related mark, Sámi Made, covers a wider range of products made by a Sámi person or Sámi-owned business.

Where: Craft shops across Lapland, Siida Shop in Inari, and online on website like Duodji Shop.
Price range: From around €20 for small items to several hundred euros for larger pieces.

Fiskars began as an ironworks in the village of Fiskars in 1649 and in 1832 the company moved into the fine-forging work that eventually led to scissors. The famous orange-handled scissors, that have sold over a billion pairs to date, came from a real effort at reinvention: in 1960, the company set designer Olof Bäckström to redesign scissors using the new possibilities of plastic, and it took him and his team seven years to land on a shape that would actually fit a hand. The iconic orange been Fiskars' registered trademark colour since 2003, and one pair now sits in the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art.

Fiskars was also the first company to mass-produce ergonomic scissors for left-handed users, back in 1972, and they're still made in red rather than orange, so it's easy to pick the pair that suits you the best.

Where: Any Finnish supermarket, hardware store, or the Fiskars village shop and visitor centre in the village of Fiskars, where the brand began.
Price range: €20–30, depending on size.

Sea buckthorn (tyrni) grows wild in only a few parts of Finland, mainly Åland and the shores of the Gulf of Bothnia, where the thorny shrubs cling to stone and gravel beaches. The small orange berries are famously high in vitamin C and are usually too sharp and sour to eat raw, so they're pressed into juice or made into jam and syrup, or used in skincare. Lumene, the famous Finnish beauty brand launched in 1970, is one of the more recognisable names using it, alongside other Nordic ingredients like cloudberry and lingonberry in its skincare lines.

Where: Supermarkets, health food shops, and farm shops. Lumene products are widely available in Finnish pharmacies and department stores like Stockmann and Sokos.
Price range: From around €5 for juice or jam; Lumene skincare typically runs €20–50 per product.

Tar, or terva, has a long history in Finland, produced especially from the 17th to the 19th century to waterproof wooden ships, with Ostrobothnia and Kainuu once the region's biggest tar-producing areas. It was also considered something of a folk cure-all, tied to the old Finnish saying that if sauna, spirits and tar can't fix you, nothing will. Today it turns up in a gentler form, as a bar of pine tar soap with that same distinctive, smoky scent that Finns love.

Where: Supermarkets, craft shops, and sauna-focused stores.
Price range: €5–15.

Finland has a thriving craft and design scene made up of small studios and independent makers with one-of-a-kind souvenir options to take home. Helsinki Design District is a great starting point: dozens of shops, galleries and studios spread across many neighbourhoods. Lokal Gallery on Annankatu stocks small-scale work from Finnish designers and craftspeople side by side. For fashion, Nomen Nescio's minimalist, all-black, gender-neutral clothing has a cult following of its own, while Pihka has been hand-crafting bags and accessories in Helsinki since 2013. If you'd like to see fashion from multiple Finnish brands in the same store, head to Miela on Mikonkatu.

It's worth looking beyond Helsinki, too. In Fiskars Village, the same village behind the scissors earlier on this list, the shop Onoma is run by the Fiskars Cooperative of Artisans, Designers and Artists and sells work made on site. Further north in Rovaniemi, the Arctic Design Shop showcases local designers, while Mainoa Craft & Design stocks Finnish-made jewellery and homeware, including pieces by Sámi designers.

For a nationwide option, look out for a Taito Shop. Run by Finland's regional craft associations, they sell locally made textiles, ceramics, woodwork and jewellery in towns from Rovaniemi and Lakeland to the Turku archipelago. Market halls across the country are also places where you can find traditional, local design.

Where: Design District Helsinki, Fiskars Village, Rovaniemi's design shops, market halls, and any Taito Shop around the country.
Price range: €15–150+, depending on the piece and the maker.

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