Infantry Museum

Tel.: +358 44 3369666
Fax.: +358 15 369666

Info Telefon: +358 15 369666
Besucher-Email: Jalkavakimuseo.mikkeli@luukku.com
http://www.jalkavakimuseo.fi/...

1.1. - 14.5. Fri,Sat,Sun from 11 to 16
15.5. - 31.8. Daily from 10 to 17
1.9. - 31.12. Fri,Sat,Sun from 11 to 16.

The Museum is housed in two wooden barracks built in the 19th century. The exhibition area covers some 2 000 m2, and the items on display include 70 different military uniforms, 120 hand guns, 20 machine and light machine guns, 20 mortars and guns, and plenty of other military equipment. The exhibition is supplemented by a large collection of photos, also in colour, and scale models depicting the battles of Tuulos and Ihantala. The exhibition in the main building puts on displays of Finnish history during the period of independence, with special emphasis on the role played by the infantry.
The permanent exhibition in the other building features military tradition in Savo and the history of garrison canteen female staff. Exhibits range form a late 18th century gun to military uniforms used in Finland during the past three centuries.
 

Mikkeli Art Museum / South Savo Regional Art Museum

Fax.: +358 15 366161

Info Telefon: +358 15 1942424
Besucher-Email: museot@mikkeli.fi
http://www.mikkeli.fi/museot/...

Tue-Sun 10-17, Sat 10-13, Mon closed.

The museum building, known as the 'Granite House', was designed by the architect Armas Rankka and dates from 1912. Mikkeli Art Museum provides a wide range of services connected with the visual arts in South Savo. One important area is the exhibition and collection of Finnish graphic art.
The Martti Airio collection, which is on permanent display, comprises Finnish paintings from the 1870s to the 1980s, furniture, oriental carpets and small art objects. Most of the works are post-Impressionist and Expressionist. Sculptures from the collection of the sculptor Johannes Haapasalo are also on permanent display.
Photography © Timo Kilpeläinen (Helene Schjerfbeck, Ompelija, 1926).
 

The Headquarters Museum

Fax.: +358 15 1942424

Info Telefon: +358 15 1942427
Besucher-Email: museot@mikkeli.fi
http://www.mikkeli.fi/museot/...

2.5.-31.8. daily 10-17,
1.9.-30.4. Fri-Sun 10-17,
at other times by advance booking.

Mikkeli was the location of army headquarters for the first time in spring 1918. The next time Mikkeli served as the headquarters city was in the Winter War of 1939-40 and again in the Continuation War of 1941-44. The Commander-in-Chief, Marshal Mannerheim, and the rest of the wartime high command were based at the Central Elementary School. In 1974 the Commander-in-Chief's office in the staffroom of the Central Elementary School in Mikkeli was opened to the public. This was supplemented by a photographic exhibition presenting the operations of the headquarters. A separate Headquarters Museum within the school building was opened in 1989. The exhibition illustrates the events of the war years. An abundance of film and sound material and multimedia programmes give the exhibition completely new dimensions.
Photography © Military archives [C.G.E. Mannerheim (1867-1951) in his office].
 

Suur-Savo Museum

Tel.: +358 15 1942424
Fax.: +358 15 366 161

Info Telefon: +358 15 213606
Besucher-Email: museot@mikkeli.fi
http://www.mikkeli.fi/museot/...

Open 2.5.-31.8. Tue.-Fri. 10-17, Sat. 14-17,
1.9.-30.4. Wed. 10-17, Sat. 14-17.

The Suur-Savo Museum is the cultural-historical museum of the city of Mikkeli. It is housed in several different buildings. The Museum researches the history of Mikkeli and the Mikkeli region. The museum also collects and records relevant objects and photographs and assembles 1-2 exhibitions annually. The collections contain about 8,000 catalogued items. In addition there are about 10,000 photographic prints and 24,000 negatives.
Photography © Suur-Savo Museum.
 

Sawmill Museum

Tel.: +358 (0)15 755 7220
Fax.: +358 (0)15 755 7201

Info Telefon: +358 (0)15 755 7220
Besucher-Email: sahanlahti@sahanlahti.fi
http://www.sahanlahti.fi/...

By appointment.

Sawmill workers´ homes from the late 19th century. The last mill has been shut down 1936. In the yard there are also a country shop and storehouses.
Closely connected to the history of Sahanlahti is the youngest daughter of the mill chef Johan Koponen, author Elsa Heporauta. She was born in Sahanlahti 1883 were she spent her childhood in this unique nature. Elsa Heporauta is known especially as the initiator of The Kalevala Women´s Association with the aim to preserve ideas associated with Kalevala and Kalevala Jewellery. She also founded Kalevala koru (Kalevala Koru Company), which was inspired by the national epic Kalevala.
 

Art Centre Salmela

Tel.: +358-(0)5-387 370
Fax.: +358-(0)5-387 374

Info Telefon: +358-(0)15-464 526
Besucher-Email: info@taidekeskussalmela.fi
http://www.taidekeskussalmela.fi...

10.6.-13.8. daily 11 am - 6 pm.

Art Centre Salmela is one of the biggest and most famous art centres in Finland. It´s multicultural program includes art exhibitions, concerts and lectures. Salmela is situated in the historical parish village of Mäntyharju by the Lake Pyhävesi. The milieu of most of the old wooden buildings dates back to the 1850s: among others there is a parish house, an old post and a pharmacy as well as the second biggest wooden church of Finland.
 

The home of President P. E. Svinhufvud

Fax.: +358 (0)9 4050 9577

Info Telefon: +358 5 457 3101
Besucher-Email: kotkaniemi@nba.fi
http://www.nba.fi/en/kotkaniemi_home...

The National Board of Antiquities

1.6.-15.8. Wed-Sun 11-17. At other times for groups by arrangement. copyright Datenbank VCMS 2007

Kotkaniemi’s main building was built by Judge Alfred Thomé of Lappee jurisdiction in 1898. It was possibly designed by architect Lars Sonck. Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, who later became Finland’s president, bought Kotkaniemi from Thomé’s estate in 1908. Kotkaniemi was the home of president P.E. Svinhufvud, his wife Ellen and their six children. In addition to original furniture, Kotkaniemi also displays works of art and presents the presidential couple had received.
Photography © The National Board of Antiquities.
 

Savonlinna Provincial Museum

Fax.: +358 (0)15 571 4717

Info Telefon: +358 (0)15 571 4712
Besucher-Email: museo@savonlinna.fi
http://www.savonlinna.fi/museo/...

Tue-Sun 11-17. (1.7. - 7.8 Mon-Sun 11-17)

Savonlinna Provincial Museum is a central museum of the cultural history of Southern Savo. The museum specializes in history of the Lake Saimaa area. The permanent exhibition is a journey through the history of southern Savo, from stone age to the early 20th century. Its purpose is to show how the people and culture of eastern Finland have survived and developed through the centuries.
In addition to the Riihisaari Museum, the museum includes also four unique steam ships, the Savonlinna Art Museum next to the Market Square, Linnankatu Museum Home near the castle and an open-air museum at Putkinotko.
 

Olavinlinna Castle and Orthodox Church Museum

Fax.: +358 15 510 585

Info Telefon: +358 15 531 164
Besucher-Email: olavinlinna@nba.fi
http://www.nba.fi/en/olavinlinna_castle...

The National Board of Antiquities of Finland

2 January - 31 May 10.00-15.00
1 June - 15 August 10.00-17.00
16 August - 31 December 10.00-15.00

The building of Olavinlinna, castle of St. Olaf, began in 1475. The Danish-born founder of the castle, knight Erik Axelsson Tott, decided that a powerful fortification should be build to protect the strategically important Savo region. There are two small exhibitions in the castle: the Castle Museum displays artifacts found in the castle or related to it, and the Orthodox Museum displays icons and other religious artifacts both from Finland and Russia.
Photography © The National Board of Antiquities.
 

Finnish Forest Museum

Tel.: +358 15 345 100
Fax.: +358 15 345 1050

Info Telefon: +358 15 345 100
Besucher-Email: lusto@lusto.fi
http://www.lusto.fi/...

Jan-Apr and Oct-Dec Tue-Sun 10-17
May-Sep daily 10-17
Jun-Aug daily 10-19

Lusto is a national museum and science centre of international importance focusing on Finnish forest culture and illustrating the interaction between man and the forest from the past to the future. Lusto collects and preserves material related to forestry and wood production, the multiple use of forests, and forest culture in general.