A complete guide to Finnish museums

Norrbotten Museum Norrbotten Museum is a cultural and historical museum located in the Oulu region of Finland. It is a provincial museum that focuses on displaying the cultural history of Oulu and the Norrbotten region.

The Norte Botten Museum was established in 1896. Until 1969, the museum had been managed and operated by the museum social institution. Since then, its management rights were transferred to the Oulu City Government. From 1911 to 1929, the museum was located in a wooden villa. Unfortunately, it was destroyed in a fire on July 9, 1929, and some of its collections were also severely damaged. Shortly after the fire broke out, the current museum was re-established where the ruins of the villa were located. The new museum was built of stone and redesigned by Finnish architect Oiva Kallio, and the Oulu City Library was moved to the building in 1982.

Except for the ground floor of the museum, the museum's fixed exhibitions are set up on other floors, while the ground floor is mainly used for temporary exhibitions that change regularly and exhibitions specifically for children; among them, the children's exhibitions are mainly based on comics created by Finnish cartoonist Mauri Kunnas. In addition, the first floor of the museum displays a large number of models of downtown Oulu before it was bombed in 1938.

Oulu Art Museum Oulu Museum of Art is located in the beautiful Ainola Park in Oulu, Finland, very close to the city center. It is a local art museum with unique characteristics, attracting about 30000 tourists from all over the world every year.

The Oulu Art Museum was converted from an old factory. It has a unique style and a spacious exhibition area of approximately 1300 square meters. It displays Finnish and international masterpieces of art, architecture and crafts, as well as indigenous northern Finnish art from the 19th to 20th centuries. Ten exhibitions with different themes are held here every year, ranging from modern to classical art. Local residents and Nordic people attach great importance to art collections and exhibitions, and often hold speeches, performances, etc. related to the theme of the exhibition here. In addition, the museum often holds comprehensive art education and tourism information services, with approximately 100 events held every year.

It is worth mentioning that the art cakes of the Oulu Art Museum coffee shop are very famous. Tourists may wish to take a nap here when they are tired; the Ainoa shop next to the museum is also worth visiting.

Science Center Museum Tietomaa Science Centre was established on June 29, 1988. It is the oldest science museum in Finland. It is located in Oulu, the famous high-tech city in northern Finland.

There are a total of 8 to 10 exhibition themes in the Oulu Science Center Museum, as well as a giant cinema with a total exhibition area of 2000 square kilometers. In the giant cinema, visitors can watch Finland's largest graphic film. In Hoksotin, children can experience the fun of climbing eaves and walking on the moon; in Uheilu, tourists can participate in high jump skiing competitions to experience the excitement of scoring goals and even experience the thrill of dunking; in Kaikki Peliin, tourists can simulate playing hockey and go crazy on a roller coaster; in addition, tourists can also take a lift to the top of the center and overlook the city.

The Science Center Museum is one of the most important tourist attractions in Oulu. There are mainly 10 full-time and 20 part-time staff members in the museum. The museum has established long-term cooperative relationships with the University of Oulu, the University of Lapland, the Oulu Institute of Technology and local companies, making the museum full of high-tech interest.

Turkansaari Open Air Museum The most interesting historical site along the Oulu-river is the Turkansaari island culture, located 14 kilometers east of Oulu. The island has been a famous trading center for centuries in eastern Finland, an area that prohibits Russian merchants from trading west of the valley. In addition, it is an important center for salmon fishing, often attracting people from surrounding areas.

The Turkansaari Open-Air Museum was established in 1922 and began after the restoration of the island's church built in 1694. This open-air museum mainly displays the farmhouse culture along the Oulu River and the traditional livelihood of the area. There are 40 buildings, including a church built in 1649, farmhouses, courtyards, forest museums, nautical museums and tar burning areas, showing the history of the area. Here you can also try the tar burning process or make handicrafts yourself.

Rupriki Media Museum Rupriki Media Museum is a historical museum dedicated to mass communication located in the Fenlisen Center in Tampere, Finland. The museum mainly features journalism and Internet history exhibitions, including mobile phones, radios, landline phones, computers and news materials.

In 2001, the Finnish city government, the University of Tampere, Alisa Telephone Company and the Finnish Morning Post began to cooperate with each other, creating the Rupriki Media Museum, which was later opened to the public in 2003. Many of the museum's original IT exhibits were donated by local computer clubs.

The fixed exhibitions in the museum mainly focus on the history of mass communication and are divided into different exhibition themes. Among them, the Internet Technology Zone was jointly designed by the museum and the Department of Hypermedia Studies at the University of Tampere. It mainly displays people from three areas of IT applications: work, daily life and games; and it provides a comprehensive view of video game culture, personal phones and computer memory. The evolution process. In addition, the museum also plans the museum's special exhibitions with nearby visual arts museums, computer scientists and amateurs, which greatly enriches the museum's exhibition content.

Espoo Museum of Modern Art Espoo Museum of Modern Art is the main art museum in the southern Finnish city of Espoo. It was established in 2002 with the support of the Espoo Art Museum Foundation and began to accept visitors from all over the world in 2006. The museum is housed in a building called WeeGee, a complex with five museums, a modern art gallery, a media arts center, a cafe, a museum shop and an art school.

The Espoo Museum of Modern Art is an exhibition center that enriches people's experience and knowledge. With an exhibition area of 5,000 square meters, it is the largest museum in Finland. The museum's exhibitions mainly include collections from its Museum Foundation, 20th century art from Finland and abroad, and temporary exhibitions of changes. Among them, the museum's permanent exhibitions come from art collections selected from the Espoo Museum of Art Foundation and Sastamonen Foundation, while temporary exhibitions will be exhibitions with different themes based on current national and international art trends. The fixed exhibitions in the museum mainly focus on Finnish classic modern art dating from the 20th century and Finnish contemporary art dating from the 1950s.

Finnish Arts and Crafts Museum Finnish Arts and Crafts Museum is one of the many famous attractions in Jyvaskyla. This is a museum fully dedicated to the display of Finnish crafts. It is a museum that displays the skills and skills of Finns. It is also an interesting place for tourists.

The exhibitions in the museum cover almost all handicraft techniques. Everything you can see and imagine is displayed here, from house construction to lace making, from forging technology to jewelry design... In addition, the museum also has a National Clothing Center and a Textile Technology Protection Center. Coming here will definitely make you marvel at Finland's rich craftsmanship. Today, the number of exhibits in the craft museum reaches 17000, ranging from traditional Finnish handicrafts to modern and contemporary handicrafts. In addition, there are also some special handicrafts from abroad, such as Russia, Sweden, Norway and France.

The museum is open every Tuesday to Sunday from 11:00 to 17:00, except holidays; adult fare is 6 euros, and minors under the age of 18 and craft students can enter for free.

The Finnish Aviation Museum was established in June 1979 and is located near the Tikakoski Jyskyla Airport. The Aviation Museum mainly displays the history of Finnish aviation to people, focusing on the history of Finnish aviation from the early 20th century to the present. It is managed and operated by the China-Finland Aviation Museum Foundation.

The exhibits in the China-Finland Aviation Museum mainly include aircraft, engines and related crew equipment used by the Finnish Air Force. The large-scale aircraft model display provides people with a broader perspective on understanding the aviation field. In addition, there is a unique exhibition area displaying Air Force signal equipment. Various aircraft of different models are displayed in various areas of the museum, including P-39 fighter jets, F2A fighter jets, Blenheim bombers, Douglas DC-3, Gnome trainer/fighter jets, two-seat jet trainer aircraft, Il-28 bomber, Messerschmidt Bf109, MiG-15 fighter jets, MiG-21 fighter jets... This aviation museum also plays the role of the Finnish Air Force Museum to a certain extent. It attracts approximately 25000 tourists every year.

Alvar Aalto Museum Alvar Aalto (February 3, 1898-May 11, 1976) was an internationally renowned Finnish architect, one of the advocates of modernist architecture, and an advocate of "humane architecture." He is good at combining natural conditions, utilizing terrain, and using local traditional materials in architectural design; he often uses curves, curved surfaces and flexible layout techniques in shaping forms and spaces.

The design of the Aalto Museum was formed in 1966. It was built in a building designed by Aalto and completed in 1973. It is a distinctive architectural design museum located in the Jyväskyla region of Finland. The museum is built on a slope facing a lake, forming a cultural center with the Museum of Central Finland designed by Aalto and the adjacent University of Juvesquelay. The base of the Aalto Museum is white, and the entire building is covered with a layer of light-colored tiles made by the famous Finnish porcelain company Arabia. It is called "Halla", which means "frost". Vertical stick-shaped tiles form a city wall-like appearance, which has a deep effect.

The permanent exhibitions in the museum mainly focus on Aalto's life's work. In addition, they also show people the different stages of Mr. Aalto's personal life. The museum often holds large-scale temporary exhibitions on architectural design, attracting many tourists to visit.

Moomin Museum Moomin is a series of fairy tale novels and family names written by Finnish female writer Tove Jansson. It is one of the most famous and popular fairy tale series in Finland. There is a Moomin Museum in the Tampere City Library in Finland, which collects more than 2,000 original painting manuscripts from the original author, detailing the touching stories, interludes and background information behind the author's creation.

The most popular one is the Lillipu-like Moomin House model, which reproduces the interesting plot three-dimensionally. Walking through the Moomin Museum, it feels like creating with Tudobe Yangsheng and growing up with Moomin. Tourists gradually understood that the familiar plots in the story originated from what interlude in the author's life, and which of the author's good friends or family members did the mantra of a certain character in the story come from.

There is a Moomin boutique store in the museum. Walking into it, it's like coming to a miniature version of Moomin Paradise. The boutique not only has various architectural models of each character in the film, but also various kinds of stationery, knickknacks and daily necessities, as well as various storybooks with Moomin as the main character, a variety of Moomin boutiques are dazzling and everything.

Spy Museum Spy plays an important role in all aspects of society, such as politics, economy, war and commercial competition. A spy, a person or a technical device in the game has enough power to change the entire development situation. On the world map, if there were no spies, it would be very different.

There is a spy museum in the Tampere region of Finland. It was established in 1998 and is the world's first spy museum. It is located on the first floor of a building in the old industrial center of Finlyson. The museum displays a variety of spy related objects, including old-fashioned Bond-shaped toys, KGB documents and monitors, which is quite contemporary. In addition, the museum also has a spy shop that sells simple spy supplies.

The Spy Museum takes you into a wonderful but dangerous world of espionage. When you are surrounded by deadly umbrellas, invisible ink and zero-device, you will suddenly discover that the images of James Bond, Marta Harry and other legendary figures are more real. The Spy Museum is open to the public all year round, and in the winter (September to May), it is open from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. every Monday to Sunday.

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Lenin Museum In the center of Tampere, the southern Finnish city, there is a Lenin Museum that is open to the public all year round. Unlike the fate of Lenin museums in Russia and other countries, which were successively closed, this Lenin Museum has been full of vitality since its establishment. It is the first Lenin Museum established in the West and the only permanent Lenin Museum in the world.

On a street not far from the train station, there is an old gray building. This was once the Workers 'Building in Tampere and the site of Lenin's attendance at the Bolshevik Congress. You can see from a distance that the exterior walls of the building are inlaid with the bronze statue of Lenin and the signs of the Lenin Museum. On January 20, 1946, at the initiative of the citizens of Tampere, the local authorities established the first Lenin Museum outside the Soviet Union at that time in the hall where Lenin had attended the Bolshevik Congress.

The museum consists of two exhibition halls. The first exhibition hall has the theme of "Lenin's Life and Achievements" and displays a large number of precious pictures, historical documents, and oil paintings and sculptures of Lenin from his youth until his successful leadership of the October Revolution. Before the October Revolution in Russia in 1917, Lenin came to Finland 26 times and lived there for nearly two years. In the second exhibition hall with the theme "Lenin in Finland", visitors can learn about Lenin and Finland by viewing a large number of pictures, objects and documents.

In order to facilitate visitors, the Lenin Museum not only has exhibition catalogs and profiles in English, German, Russian, French, Swedish, Arabic and other languages, but also has a webpage on the Internet to welcome more people to pay attention to and understand Lenin's life and achievements. Since its establishment, the museum has held more than 100 special exhibitions and celebrations such as "The 100th Anniversary of Lenin's Birthday Exhibition" and "Lenin's Footsteps".

Cedar Museum Cedar Museum is located near Lake Inari in the village of Inari in the Inari region of Finland. It consists of two parts: the Sami Museum and the North Lapland Nature Center. It is a window into Sami culture and the rich nature of the North Lapland region. At the Cedar Museum, you can view diverse cultural, art and nature exhibitions throughout the year.

The Cedar Museum displays the development and changes of nature and culture in northern Finland from the glacier period to the present, and displays Sami culture in various periods. According to the archaeological relics on display, the history of human habitation in the area can be traced back to the prehistoric period 9000 years ago. These relics reflect the living and living conditions of the indigenous people at that time, as well as hunting, fishing and other labor conditions. Every summer, the Cedar Museum also launches an outdoor open-air museum exhibition, previously known as the Inari Sami Museum. In 1960, the first folk ancient building moved here, and as time went by, its collection of related antiquities increased. Today, this open-air museum covers an area of 7 hectares and displays more than 50 antiquities related to Sami culture and the natural characteristics of Lapland.

Finnish Railway Museum The Finnish Railway Museum was established in 1898. It was originally located in Helsinki and later moved to Schwinkai, about 50 kilometers north of Helsinki, Finland in 1974. The museum was originally located at the Hanko-Schwenkai Railway Station. In addition to the buildings of the railway station itself, there are also shunting houses and several other protected historical buildings around it, built in the 1870s.

The Finnish Railway Museum collects a variety of trains from different historical periods in Finland. Of course, the most interesting ones are those with unique uses, including the only remaining Tsar royal train. The locomotives include the No. 1427 locomotive manufactured by Nielsen Company in the United Kingdom in 1869, the British Bayer Peacock locomotive started in 1868, and the No. 75214 steam locomotive built in 1947-it is one of the 20 Ye-class locomotives sold by Russia to Finland. In addition, there is a running steam train in the backyard of the museum. On important summer days, visitors can take this train to experience a train journey.

Finnish Maritime Museum The Maritime Museum of Finland is located at the Maritime Centre Vellamo and officially opened to the public on July 11, 2008. It is located in the port city of Kotka in southeastern Finland. It is a national maritime museum under the Finnish State Administration of Cultural Heritage. Its main purpose is to show Finland's maritime history to the public.

The Finnish Maritime Museum collects and preserves some important items related to navigation, photos, archives, literary records and other related objects. The displays here are very rich, including various ship models, objects, paintings, pictures, ship boards, shipbuilding tools, statues, navigation instruments, ship clocks, weapons, and even pirate flags. Among them, commercial maritime and Finnish national maritime history are the most attractive highlights in the maritime museum. The Finnish Maritime Museum displays Finland's maritime history through different maritime themes, mainly including maritime trade, navigators, ships, nautical travel, etc. In addition, winter navigation is also one of the core components of its exhibition.

In addition to the Finnish Maritime Museum, the Maritime Centre Vellamo has many other attractions that attract tourists, such as the Kymenlaakso Museum, the Vellamo Information Center, Laakonki Restaurant and the Plootu Museum Store.