Kalajoki Fishing Museum

Tel.: +358 (0)8 460 505

Info Telefon: +358 (0)8 4694 449
http://www.kalajokimatkailu.fi/...

By appointment.

The museum is situated in the Plassi area by the old marketplace. The collection consists of about 300 exhibits related to fishing, the catching of river lampreys and seal hunting.
 

Kalajoki museum of local history and culture

Tel.: +358 (0)8 46 911

Info Telefon: +358 (0)8 4694 449
http://www.kalajokimatkailu.fi/...

In summertime Tue-Sun 10-16 and by appointment.

The museum is situated in Siltasaari in the centre of Kalajoki. The famous district court sessions against Pietists held in 1838-1839 were started in this house, which originally belonged to the Törnvall family. The exhibition shows local means of livelihood.
 

Kajaani Art Museum

Tel.: +358 (0)8 6155 2572
Fax.: +358 (0)8 6155 2581

Info Telefon: +358 (0)8 6155 2599
Besucher-Email: taidemuseo@kajaani.fi
http://www.kajaani.fi/taidemuseo...

Sun-Fri 10-17, Wed 10-20, Sat closed.

The museum's exhibition rooms are located in the former police house designed by architect Eino Pitkänen. Completed in 1936, the building is an example of pure functionalist style.
The collection concentrates on Finnish art works from the 1980s and 1990s. Important series of works within the collection include those by Juhana Blomsted, Carolus Enckell, Outi Heiskanen, Tapio Junno, Pauno Pohjolainen, Kain Tapper and Nina Terno. Significant Kainuu artists represented include H. Ahtela, Helvi Hyvärinen, Matti Koskela, Jaakko Leppänen and Kaarlo Mikkonen.
Kajaani Art Museum is also responsible for the collection of the City of Kajaani, which consists mainly of works by Kainuu artists displayed in various public buildings in the city.
 

Tuupala museum

Info Telefon: +358 8 6155 5394
Besucher-Email: museo@kuhmo.fi
http://www.kuhmo.fi/index.asp?language=2...

5.6. - 22.6.2006 Tue - Sun 10-16
26.6. - 4.8.2006 Tue - Sun 10-18
Other times by agreement.

Tuupala museum is a museum of rural buildings. The furnishing of the interior in the main house varies from the 1880s to 1960s, portraying the life on a family in Kainuu who inhabited the house. A store, an inn and a post office, among others, have operated in this house. There are four old log houses in the museum area, all in their original place. In the courtyard, you can also find a tar boat.
Photography © Tuupala museum.
 

Winter War Museum

Info Telefon: +358 8 6155 5395
Besucher-Email: museo@kuhmo.fi
http://www.kuhmo.fi/index.asp?language=2...

5.6. - 22.6.2006 Tue - Sun 10-16
26.6. - 18.8.2006 Daily 10-18
In winter time Mon - Fri 9-15
Other times by agreement.

In the Winter War Museum, the Finnish-Soviet Winter War period (30 Nov 1939 - 13 march 1940) in Kuhmo is presented. The exhibition portrays the everyday lives of the Finnish and Russian soldiers. The civilian problems are also strongly presented. The topics include e.g. evacuation, frontline service, battles and the post-war time.
Photography © Winter War Museum.
 

Kaunislehto Open-Air Museum (Skanzen)

Fax.: +358 8 742 086

Info Telefon: +358 8 749 202
Besucher-Email: seija.heikkinen@hyrynsalmi.fi
http://www.finnguide.fi/sightguide/area....

Commune of Hyrynsalmi

June-August Wednesday-Sunday 11.00-17.00

The open air musem situated on an area of about 150 hectares shows a typical farmyard in Hyrynsalmi at the turn of the 20th century.
 

The Jalonniemi House

Fax.: +358 (0)8 6155 5546

Info Telefon: +358 (0)8 6155 5545
Besucher-Email: tourist.office@suomussalmi.fi
http://www.suomussalmi.fi...

Mon-Fri 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Sat 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Sun 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. (24.-26.12. closed).
19.6.-13.8.: Mon-Fri 9 a.m. - 7 p.m. Sat 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Sun 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Midsummer: 23.6. 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. 24.6. closed. 25.6. 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.

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The Jalonniemi House was designed by a local Suomussalmi architect H. Pyykkönen. At the request of the Suomussalmi municipality, the Finish National Board of Antiquities has made available numerous artefacts for the exhibition of prehistory located in the Jalonniemi House. These include items of jewelry, casting moulds, stone axeheads, adzes, flint and slate arrowheads, quartz scrapers, tools from the Iron Age, as well as the entire contents of the cremation grave found at Peranka. The northern-most large-scale site of rock paintings in Finland can be found in Hossa. These are known as the Värikallio paintings and a giant 6 metres by 3 metres photograph of the site is on display in the exhibition.
 

Raate Frontier Guard museum

Fax.: +358-(0)8 711 189

Info Telefon: +358-(0)8 6176 2243
Besucher-Email: tourist.office@suomussalmi.fi
http://www.suomussalmi.fi/...

Daily 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. between June 5 and August 20 (closed 23.6.).

The museum tells us of the life of a frontier guard post before the Second World War. The building is the only one of the guard houses built before the WW II by the independent state of Finland which is left.
 

The Suomussalmi House Museum

Fax.: +358 (0)8 615 555

Info Telefon: +358 (0)8 615 555
Besucher-Email: tourist.office@suomussalmi.fi
http://www.suomussalmi.fi/...

13.6.-20.8. Tue-Sun 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

The museum is located in Suomussalmi church village. All of the 16 museum buildings have been moved to their present site from various villages of the region. The museum gives an idea of how people lived in the 18th and 19th century in Suomussalmi.
The main building is the house of Alanne, one of the first known houses in Suomussalmi. Originally it was located by Lake Alanne and used as an inn by Karelian tradesmen.
Photography © Suomussalmen kunta.
 

Winter War in Suomussalmi Exhibition

Fax.: +358 (0)8 721 451

Info Telefon: +358 (0)8 721 450
Besucher-Email: marko.seppanen@raatteenportti.fi
http://www.raatteenportti.fi/...

15.05.-15.06. daily 11.00 a.m.- 5.00 p.m.
16.06.-15.08. daily 10.00 a.m.- 6.00 p.m.
16.08.-30.09. daily 11.00 a.m.- 5.00 p.m. and by appointment. Datenbank (c) Verlag C. Müller-Straten 2007

The exhibition displays Finnish and Russian weapons and uniforms, photographs, soldiers´ belongings, a multimedia of the Raate battle fields (Nov. 1939-Jan. 1940) and a scale model of the Raate Museum Road.
Photography Centre of the General H.Q.35