Helsinki Airport shows ballet & opera snippets

The Stuck at the Airport team is a big fan of Helsinki, Finland. And not just for the licorice.

We love the airport too.

And we’re delighted to learn that passengers traveling through Helsinki Airport (HEL) can now enjoy snippets of opera and ballet from the Opera House in Helsinki.

Audio and video selections from performances are projected on a giant wall at the airport train station.

The first set of snippets includes highlights from the ballets Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty and the operas Tosca, Turandot and Don Giovanni. The run time is about 20 minutes and the program selections will be refreshed regularly.

We’re putting this in the running for Airport Amenity of the Week.

Indianapolis Int’l Airport displays a replica of a President’s house

Here’s another fun installation at an airport.

(Courtesy IND Airport)

The home of Benjamin Harris, the 23rd President of the United States, is a popular tourist destination near downtown Indianapolis.

And now an intricate replica of Harrison’s house created by miniaturist Jimmy Landers is on display in the pre-security Civic Plaza at Indianapolis International Airport (IND).

The replica is nearly six feet long, three feet wide and four feet tall. It includes more than 40 windows, eight porch columns, four chimneys and real slate roofs.

The original home was built with 380,552 bricks. The replica has 48,000.

The original structure cost $29,000 (over $800,000 in 2024 dollars). The cost of building the replica was about about half as much: $15,000.