Saimaa Film Festival

Saimaa Film Festival offers versatile film screenings, lectures and side events, which are taken to various natural and cultural environments around South Karelia.

Saimaa Film Festival

Saimaa Film Festival offers versatile film screenings, lectures and side events, which are taken to various natural and cultural environments around South Karelia.

Black & White Theatre Festival

For 20 years, the Black and White Theatre Festival has presented a huge variety of different styles: dance theatre, ballet, pantomime, circus, traditional drama, opera, puppet theatre and street pe

Geopark Visitor Centre

The Geopark Visitor Centre is one of the cultural attractions of Saimaa Geopark. The Saimaa Geopark visitor centre is located in Imatra’s culture centre Virta, right after the main entrance.

Skiing technique courses

Come to improve your cross-country skiing skills. The courses are suitable from adults to children and from beginners to active skiers. You can choose between traditional skiing or free style.

Scenic cruise to River Vuoksi in Imatra, Vuoksi Fishing Park

Landscape cruises at river Vuoksi

Jump aboard the boat m/s Vuoksetar and enjoy the beautiful scenery of the river Vuoksi on a cruise lasting about an hour.

Industrial workers' housing museum

An exhibition on the living conditions of industrial workers in the 1900s and 1960s. Furnished apartments in a residential building and social services presented in a sauna building.

Church of the Three Crosses (Vuoksenniska Church)

Alvar Aalto started working on the Vuoksenniska church plan in 1955 as a side project of the Imatra town plan.

The Border Museum

The Border Guard Museum is a national museum that presents the history of the Finnish Border Guard. The museum focuses on operations by land and air.

Veterans Museum

The war history of the National Wars and the Winter and Continuation Wars, as well as war memories in the spirit of the motherland in Imatra Finland.