Museum Sites In Varkaus

The new Varkauden museokeskus Konsti is located in Old Varkaus, in the former school building designed by Karl Lindahl at the Factory School.

The Varkauden museokeskus Konsti in Varkaus introduces the history, present and future of industrial cooperation and know-how in Varkaus. Under one roof you will find Museum of Varkaus, Art Museum of Varkaus and a children's activity exhibition Lasten tehdas. The museum centre also has space for parties, meetings, events, space for community.

The name of the Varkauden museokeskus Konsti refers to our way of talking about industry through knowledge, innovation and people. It also refers directly to art, and to the linguistic history of Varkaus. Konsti also naturally describes the realisation and hands-on work of the Lasten tehdas. The name is also in conversation with the name Varkaus in its ambiguity. The name Konsti also reflects our inventive, playful museum.

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The Museum of Mechanical Music is Varkaus' number one attraction, one of the best of its kind in Europe and listed in foreign guidebooks as one of the Top 10 places to visit in Finland. The Museum of Mechanical Music fast-paced guided tour, accompanied by funny stories, showcases around 400 amazing instruments in large halls decorated according to their era.

The collection of instruments is astonishing; music boxes, automatic pianos and orchestras, violins and accordions, and posettis from the small table model to the to the huge Amadeus. The grandest of them all is the largest in the world orchestra, the 75-piece Popper Goliath. Every year, the museum's people restore new equipment for the exhibition. The museum is also home to Iivo the parrot.

The guided tour of the museum lasts about an hour, so those coming for the last tour are advised to arrive an hour before closing time.

Museum of Mechanical Music
Pelimanninkatu 8
78850 Varkaus
tel. 050 590 9297
info@mekaanisenmusiikinmuseo.fi
www.mekaanisenmusiikinmuseo.fi
 

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The canal area of Taipale is a great summer day trip destination to explore the 180-year-old old canal and the Canal Museum. You can also learn more about the history of the canal from the information boards on the Canal Trail that runs around the area. It is also interesting to watch boats and ships mooring on the banks of the working canal.

The canal museum's basic exhibition "Via Canalia" includes a model of the Taipale canal area from 1905 and old equipment from the canal canal. The museum also offers a virtual tour of the canal. You can also watch the films "Taipaleen kanava, vilkas vesiväylä", which includes various events - canal floating, steam boat regattas, canal festivals - from Varkaus waters, and "Kalakukko", a trip to nearby waters on the Kalakukkolotja, a fishing and berry picking boat.

The Canal Museum and café with its terrace are open daily in June, July and August from 10:00 to 18:00 Otherwise, the museum serves groups by appointment.

Taipale Canal Museum

Taipaleen kanava, Kanavakatu 1
78250 Varkaus
tel. 044 444 2366
taipaleen.kanavamuseo@varkaus.fi

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The Kangaslammin koti-ja koulumuseo is maintained by the Kangaslammin kyläyhdistys. The building of the koti- ja koulumuseo has an interesting history, as it was built at the turn of the last century and has previously housed a shop, a café, a dairy, a police station and a municipal office. The museum is open on weekends from 10:00 to 15:00 There is also a small café. The museum was founded by Adolf Markas and the former headquarters of the Adolfskärgården, the former police station and the former police station.

Kangaslammin koti- ja koulumuseo
Kangaslammintie 1
79480 Kangaslampi
Contact person for Home and School Museum matters and museum presentation outside opening hours:
Olli-Pekka Kähkönen, olli-pekka.kahkonen@hotmail.com
tel. 045 104 9664

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Paul Wahl's factories built the property of Varkauden Kotiseutukeskus in 1858 for Sannfrid Theofron Hällström, a factory doctor. According to a floor plan in a memoir written by Hällström's youngest son, Johannes (Hannes) Hällström in 1942, the main building had seven rooms, including a doctor's consulting room and a waiting room. Parallel to the building ran the Wahl stream, on the banks of which there was a bathing room.

Mrs. Anna Hällström enjoyed nature. In the courtyard there was not only a kitchen garden, but also flower beds and ornamental shrubs. Special features were the plants sown on the lawn, the seeds of which had been brought from the botanical gardens in Helsinki by Johannes's fellow students. The rarities were still growing in 1941!

These were the first plants to be planted in the gardens of Johann Sebastian's students, who had brought them from the nursery.

Hällström and his wife Anna Katarina Lovisa Hällström had four sons. The musical tradition of both families continued in the house. Sannfrid played a lot of music with his sons and Anna taught piano to the children of the gentry. The house served as a health centre and in many ways as the musical and cultural centre of the community.

Today the property belongs to the Warkaus-seura and is used as a local history centre. The former doctor's residence and the old farmhouse have been restored to their original appearance. The house is used as a restaurant for various events, meetings, family celebrations, daily meals, etc.

Varkauden Kotiseutukeskus
Wredenkatu 4, 78250 Varkaus
(017) 552 8889
info@varkaus-seura.fi

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