Mobile Libraries

A driver looks out of a purple truck.

The mobile libraries in Tampere - Kosmos and Kustaa - are available to schools and day-care centres during the day and to all municipal residents in the evenings.

Schedules of mobile libraries by district

The schedules are valid from 17 November 2025 onwards.

Schedules of mobile libraries by weekday

The schedules are valid from 17 November 2025 onwards. School stops are not served during school holidays.

Contact information

Mobile Libraries

Phone:
Office 040 8007835 (local/mobile network fee) Mobile library Kosmos 040 5587789 (local/mobile network fee) Mobile library Kustaa 040 5586789 (local/mobile network fee)
Merita Ronkainen
Service Manager

Resources and reservations 

You can also check the availability information to see the resources of the mobile libraries in the PIKI online library. It is possible to reserve material. 

You can also select Kosmos or Kustaa as the pick-up location for reservations (even regional reservations). The staff at mobile libraries are happy to help you with reservations.

Returns 

You can return resources you loaned from mobile libraries to other locations of the Tampere City Library free of charge. Materials loaned from other locations can also be returned to a mobile library free of charge. 

Mobile Library Kosmos

Kosmos, named and designed in line with the space theme, entered service in January 2021 and is the first mobile library built on a truck chassis in Tampere. The striking illustrations were created by Nora Surojegin.

Mobile Library Kosmos.

Mobile Library Kustaa

The red Kustaa is named after the founder of the city of Tampere, King Gustav III of Sweden. This mobile library was put into service in 2009, when Tampere celebrated its 230th anniversary - hence the car's registration number TRE-230.

The mobile library Kustaa next to a field.

The short address for this page is tampere.fi/en/mobilelibraries

Updated 4.12.2025