Lammintalo – the last home of Elias Lönnrot
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Elias Lönnrot’s (1802-1884) last home, Lammi Farmstead, is located in Haarjärvi village in Sammatti, only four kilometers from Paikkari Cottage. The main building is a fascinating combination of an old smoke cabin and a 19th century upper-class home. The artefacts contained in the house are typical of the time, and some of them belonged to Elias […]
Johannes Lohilampi Museum
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Lohilampi Museum is a cavalry estate originating in the 18th century. The two storey main residence is thought to be from the 1770s, and stands in its original place of construction. The museum holds a comprehensive collection of rustic country-style effects as collected by the farmer, financier and cultural authority Johannes Lohilampi (1866 – 1938). The […]
JOHANNES LINNANKOSKI’S CHILDHOOD HOME
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Writer Johannes Linnankoski (Vihtori Peltonen) was born in Askola on 18 October 1869. Around the time of Vihtori’s birth, his parents were renting Maria Peltonen’s home farm in Askola, but when he was young, the family built a new house named Niemenpelto. Today, this building serves as the Linnankoski museum. While the majority of the […]
J. L. RUNEBERG’S HOME
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All Finns who went to school in the old days will remember reading poems from the Tales of Ensign Stål, written by Johan Ludvig Runeberg. They will also remember statues of Runeberg, which were found in almost every school. Runeberg’s memory was cherished after his death. Thanks to this, the family’s items have been preserved […]
Hvitträsk
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Hvitträsk was built in 1901-1903 by the architects Herman Gesellius, Armas Lindgren and Eliel Saarinen. The main building, constructed using natural stone and logs in the National Romantic style, was the shared studio of the architects, and also the home of Saarinen and Lindgren with families. Gesellius lived in the separate courtyard building “Lilla villan”, […]
VILLA MUSEUM VILLA RULLUDD
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Take a trip to decades past to the summer villa of the Kihlman family! Upstairs, aunts Agnes and Margit are busy in their room at the washing commode. In the rose room, little Gunilla is waking up to another day of doll play, and in Mimmi the cook’s room the light trestle bed has been […]
HURTIG’S CROFT
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Dragoon Anders Hurtig (1770–1848) fought in wars in 1788–90 and in 1808–1809. In 1809, the Swedish allotment system was abolished in Finland, and Hurtig got to continue living in the cabin with his family as an ordinary crofter. The current furniture was collected from other farms in the village. The farm includes a smoke sauna […]
HALOSENNIEMI MUSEUM
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Through the windows of this castle of a log building, a lovely view opens of an impressive cliff and the waves on the lake. Deeply impressed by the landscape around Tuusula Lake Road, the painter Pekka Halonen saw it a fitting location for his studio home, which was completed in 1902. Pekka Halonen is known […]
Forngården Museum
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Forngården Museum, which opened in 1958, gives visitors a feel of life on a farm in the archipelago in the mid-19th century. The museum consists of a main building, the oldest parts of which are from the 18th century, a storage building, two sheds, a storage building for fishing equipment, an outhouse, a barn and […]
EHRENSVÄRD MUSEUM
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A croquant-adorned banquet table, cannonballs and one dark basement taken over by a secret society give the visitor a glimpse of 18th-century life in Suomenlinna. The Ehrensvärd Museum operates in the former home of the constructor of the Viapori fortress, Field Marshal Augustin Ehrensvärd. In this museum bearing his name, the cultural atmosphere of the era […]