Oulu City Art Museum

Fax.: +358-8-558-47499

Info Telefon: +358-8-558-47450
Besucher-Email: toimisto.taidemuseo@ouka.fi
http://www.ouka.fi/taidemuseo/...

Tue-Thu 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Fri 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sat 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sun 12 a.m. to 8 p.m.
The Museum observes various National Holidays, and may be closed during these special days.

The Art Museum's old red brick section, by the architect Birger Federley, represents Industrial architecture of the early 1900's. The building has been part of a larger real estate of the leather factory ''Veljekset Åström Oy''. The Oulu City carried a renovation project during the years 1988-1990, and the outcome is an architectural Post-Modern creation which unites the old, massive, industrial edifice with a new, light section created by the architectural company ''Jorma Teppo Ky'' from Oulu.
The collections comprise mainly 20th-century art works of artists from northern Finland, contemporary Finnish art, the Naivist Collection of the Heinänen Art Foundation and some other donations. The museum organizes changing exhibitions on Finnish and international art.
The total area of the museum is 3400 square meters, of which the exhibition areas are slightly over 1200 square meters.
Photography © Ilkka Soini - Oulu City Art Museum.
 

Museum of Northern Ostrobothnia

Fax.: +358-(0)8-558 47199

Info Telefon: +358-(0)8-558 47161
Besucher-Email: ppm@ouka.fi
http://www.ouka.fi/ppm/...

The City of Oulu

1.9.-31.12 and 2.1.-15.5. Tue-Sun 10-17,
16.5.-31.8. Tue, Thu, Fri 10-18. Wed 10-19, Sat-Sun 11-18.

The museum was founded in 1896 by the Museum Society. The culturally historic county museum's region of interest is the City of Oulu and Northern Ostrobothnia of Finland. The exhibitions cover about 1100 square metres.
In addition to its basic exhibition, the Northern Ostrobothnia Museum has also produced a wide multimedia program about tar and shipping, the town planning and growth of Oulu and traditional cooking and clothing.
The Museum of North Ostrobothnia also comprises the Turkansaari Open-Air Museum, the Matila House and the Pateniemi Sawmill Museum.
 

Turkansaari Open Air Museum - Museum of Northern Ostrobothnia (Skanzen)

Tel.: +358-8-558 47154

Info Telefon: +358-8-558 67191
Besucher-Email: turkansaari@co.inet.fi
http://www.ouka.fi/ppm/turkansaari...

21.5.-15.8. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
16.8.-15.9. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The island of Turkansaari, situated in the Oulu-river about 14 km east of Oulu is an old trading center and place of salmon fishing. The history of the open-air museum started in 1922 when the old church from 1694 was restored to its original site. Today in the museum area there is a typical farmyard complex with all the appropriate buildings and equipments of the region. Old forms of livelihood such as tar-making, salmon fishing, lumbering and log floating can be experienced.
 

Oulu Car Museum

Tel.: +358 (0)9 7289 5150 (SAHK)
Fax.: +358 (0)8 5521 600

Info Telefon: +358 (0)8 5521 600
Besucher-Email: toimisto@sahk.fi (SAHK - ''The Veteran Car Club of Finland'')
http://www.sahk.fi/...

Oulun Seudun Mobilistit r.y.

Summer time 1.5. - 31.8.
Saturdays 09.00 – 15.00
Sunday-Friday 09.00 – 17.00

Winter time 1.9. – 30.4.
Saturdays 09.00 – 15.00
Sunday – Friday 09.00 – 16.00
during the darkest period mid winter Sundays may be closed.

The museum has more than 50 veteran cars and motorcycles, the oldest of which date from around 1910.
 

Kempele Museum of Local History and Culture

Tel.: +358-8-520 0421
Fax.: +358-8-520 0298

Info Telefon: +358-8-517 747
http://www.finnguide.fi/sightguide/area....

June-August Tue-Sun 12:00-18:00

The farmhouse reflects a typically north Ostrobothnian atmosphere. On the area there is also a so-called brother-in-arms house. The museums history begins in 1733 when a royal commander's official residence, ''Hovila'' was built on the site.
 

The Botanical Museum and Botanical Garden

Tel.: +358 (0)8 553 1570

Info Telefon: +358 (0)8 553 1555
Besucher-Email: pekka.halonen@oulu.fi, risto.virtanen@oulu.fi
http://cc.oulu.fi/~herboulu/...

University of Oulu

Mon-Fri 8-16.

The museum is a unit integrated in the Department of Biology of the University of Oulu and located at the Botanical Garden. It was established in 1961 and it has contributed essentially to the knowledge of the flora of northern Finland. Main emphasis of the collection is on arctic and subarctic boreal plant species from the Fennoscandia region. The number of specimens is about 0.5 million (vascular plants, bryophytes and fungi).
 

The University of Oulu Geological Museum

Tel.: +358-8-553 1468
Fax.: +358-8-553 1484

Info Telefon: +358-8-553 1430 / -1440
Besucher-Email: geomuseo@oulu.fi
http://cc.oulu.fi/~geomuwww/index.html...

Mostly on Monday-Friday 11-15 and Sunday 11-15.

The collections are mainly from Fennoscandia but the mineral and rock collections in particular are of worldwide origin. The number of catalogued samples at the end of 2001 was 12296 of which about 3200 were exhibited.
A detailed picture of the Finnish bedrock is given by the regional rock collection which is perhaps of greatest scientific importance among the museum collections. A small paleontological collection provides an introduction to the development of life on Earth while Quartenrnary geology is presented by sediment samples. Sedimentary structures are one speciality of the museum.
Photography © Oulu Geological Museum.
 

The University of Oulu Zoological Museum

Tel.: +358 -8-553 1214
Fax.: +358 -8-553 1061

Info Telefon: +358 -8-553 1253 / -1254
Besucher-Email: zoological.museum@oulu.fi
http://cc.oulu.fi/~zoolmus/...

Mon-Fri 8.30 - 15.45, Sun 11.00 - 15.00, Sat closed.

The Zoological Museum focuses on northern nature and species. At the present there are about 50 000 vertebrate and about two million invertebrate specimens in the museum.
Photography © Oulu Zoological Museum.
 

Kierikki Stone Age Centre

Fax.: +358 (0)8 8170 494

Info Telefon: +358 (0)8 8170 490
Besucher-Email: asiakaspalvelu@kierikki.fi
http://www.kierikki.fi/...

25 June - 6 Aug: Mon-Sun 10-17
7 Aug - 3 Sept: Tue-Sun 10-16
from 4 Sept Tue-Fri 10-16
The Kierikki Stone Age Centre and Hotel Kierikki are open as needed upon request beyond regular opening hours.

During excavations in the early 1990s, significant findings were made: foundations for dwellings and various objects. It became understood that the Kierikki area has been an important settlement for nearly 2,000 years, roughly between 5,000 and 3,000 B.C., over 7,000 years ago. Kierikki's oldest settlements are in the Pahkakoski area, where settlers had migrated from the east along the river Iijoki in about 5,000 B.C. Kierikki was being inhabited year-round, at the latest, by roughly 4,000 B.C.
Kierikki Stone Age Centre introduces Finnish culture and tales about Finnish Stone Age life to all who are interested in prehistory.
The permanent display at the centre displays objects from archaeological findings and presents research history. In the nearby Stone Age village, you can see how settlements were established in the Stone Age and what Stone Age life was like. At the prehistoric fishing camp, you can learn about prehistoric fishing methods.
 

Tyrnävä Museum

Tel.: +358 (0)8 545 1330

Info Telefon: +358 (0)8 545 1230
Besucher-Email: info@tyrnava.fi
http://www.tyrnava.fi/...

July 12-16 and by appointment.

A grain silo from the 1860s houses a museum whose most unusual item is the so-called Mirror Boy’s Mirror. It belonged to a clairvoyant from the early twentieth century known as the Mirror Boy, who, among other things, solved crimes by looking in his mirror.