Objects on display in the showcase:

Top shelf:
Advertisement for Sihvola’s Bar in Lahti from around the turn of the 1950s–1960s, take-away cup from Coffee House in Helsinki from 2020, coffee cup and saucer from Café Parisien in Helsinki from the 1870s, and coffee mug from Café Faarao in Lahti from the 1980s. Coffee delivery services were already bringing coffee to worksites or offices in the early 20th century. Some cafés had their own delivery service. Coffee to go and take-away cups became more common in the 1980s. Around the same time, many cafés switched from delicate porcelain cups to more durable mugs.

Bottom shelf:
Photograph of Lahti railway station restaurant from 1952, coffee pot from Hotel Aulanko in Hämeenlinna from the early 1970s, and coffee cup and saucer from Sinuhen cafés in Lahti from the 1980s. Most coffee in Finland is consumed as light roast. In the past, it could be brewed again in a pot without becoming overly bitter. The popularity of pot-brewed coffee declined when coffee started being made by filtering. Coffee makers first became common in cafés, then in homes, during the 1970s.