in 1984, the city of vantaa offered to be the host city and partial financier for the science centre, and also designated a property lot located in the southern end of tikkurila as the future site of the centre. an architectural competition, held in 1985, turned out two first prizes from which the winning design was selected; namely the “heureka” design submitted by mikko heikkinen, markku komonen and lauri anttila. that's how the finnish science centre heureka got its apt name!