UNESCO World Heritage sites

The Aalto Works ensemble was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2026. It comprises thirteen sites across Finland designed by Alvar, Aino and Elissa Aalto. Three of them, Säynätsalo Town Hall, the Muuratsalo Experimental House and the Aalto Campus at the University of Jyväskylä, are located in Jyväskylä. The sites that make up the Aalto Works ensemble played a significant role in the development of international modernism.

Petäjävesi’s Old Church was welcomed as a UNESCO world heritage site in 1994 and has been described as a masterpiece of Nordic wooden architecture. The building represents Nordic Lutheran Church architecture and the time-honoured heritage of log-building skills.

The Puolakka Measuring Station at Oravivuori 1 in Korpilahti, Jyväskylä is part of the Struve Triangulation Chain. In 2005, the Struve Triangulation Chain was accepted onto the UNESCO list of world heritage sites. It represents a cultural legacy of science and technology.

There are almost a thousand different sites around the world on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The sites are divided into cultural and natural heritage sites.  The cultural heritage sites are masterpieces of human creativity or significant evidence of an existing or already lost culture. The sites are approved by the International UNESCO World Heritage Committee on the basis of proposals from the states.