My research focuses on the societal agency of the museum institution and its contemporary changes. I investigate how museums approach and represent difficult, dark heritage topics or networked-oriented problems and how these, what I refer to as Wicked Heritage Problems, impact their practices. I defended my PhD thesis, Engaging with Wicked Heritage Problems: The Societal Agency of Museums in Flux in Contemporary Finland, at the University of Helsinki in February 2025.

While writing the dissertation, I also worked as a researcher in The Narratives of Finland—Historical Culture, the Arts and Changing Nationality project (Pl Jukka Kortti). I analysed the agency of the National Museum of Finland during the 2010s from the perspective of narrating Finnish national identity. Currently, I am working in the Uncomfortable Museum: Towards Safe, Brave Spaces project (Pl Johanna Turunen), where we scrutinise particular cases of museums dealing with difficult heritage and how the disturbing emotions experienced in the museum space may also hold repairing potential. Moreover, I am personally interested in historical house museums. I became familiar with the field while organising the museum development project to strengthen a network of Finnish artists’ homes in the Time Machines and Utopias project, funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.