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Aulanko
North of the town centre, this was created early in the 20th century by Hugo Standertskjöld, who spent a fortune creating a beautiful central-European-style park with ponds, swans, pavilions, a granite fortress and exotic trees. Although the best way to explore it is on foot, the s
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Wolkoff Home Museum
Built in 1826, this lovingly preserved Russian home was owned by the merchant Wolkoff family from 1872 to 1986, and its 10 rooms have been maintained as they were in the late 1800s. The house is visitable only by 40-minute guided tours. From early June to late August, English tours
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Lenin
Admirers of bearded revolutionaries won’t want to miss this small museum in the Workers’ Hall where Lenin and Stalin first met in 1905. Lenins life is documented with photos and papers; it’s a little dry but it’s fascinating to see, for example, his old school report (Vladimir was
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Tankar Island
This lighthouse island, 18km northwest of Kokkola, once offered safe passage through tangled waters. Now it makes a popular day trip (adult/child €18/8; lighthouse €3/free) for bird-watching, nature walks and salmon soup at the pierside Café Tankar . M/S Jenny makes the 1½-hour sai
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Pohjois Pohjanmaan Museo
The Museum of Northern Ostrobothnia in the city park has almost too much information to take in at first bite. It covers the earliest habitation of the region through to the 20th century, including plenty of information on the tar trade. Cameras allow you to zoom in on the impressi
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Hauensuoli
This narrow strait between Tullisaari and Kobben is a protected natural harbour where sailing ships from countries around the Baltic Sea once waited out storms. The sailors killed time by carving their initials or tales of bravery on the rocks, earning the area the nickname ‘Guest
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Rauma Museum
Rauma Museum encompasses four sites. The impressive 1776-built Vanha Raatihuone has lace and changing local history displays. Marela is the period-furnished home of a wealthy 19th-century merchant family. At the other end of the social scale, Kirsti , a lovable collection of lopsid
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Linnanmäki & Sea Life
Famous Linnanmäki is a real kid-pleaser with rides, rollercoaster, 75m freefall and nightly fireworks. Its profits are donated to child-welfare organisations. There are various day passes, some of which discount admission to nearby Sea Life , an aquarium complex with walk-through t
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Hämeenlinnan Taidemuseo
Housed in a former granary designed by CL Engel, the town gallery has an interesting collection of Finnish art from the 19th and 20th centuries. Notable is Gallen-Kallela’s painting of the Kalevala’ s final scene, with the shaman Väinämöinen leaving Finland, representing the conque
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Natural History Museum
Recently renovated, the Natural History Museum is known for its controversial weather vane of a sperm impregnating an ova. New exhibitions like Story of the Bones, which puts skeletons in an evolutionary context, bring new life to the University of Helsinki’s extensive collection o
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Raatteen Portti
Near Suomussalmi was some of the bitterest fighting of the Winter War, along the Raate road. Rusted ordnance commemorates it, as does Raatteen Portti, 20km east of town. This has a good display of memorabilia, preceded by a worthwhile audiovisual. Alongside, the moving Avara Syli m
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Langinkoski Imperial Fishing Lodge
Situated 5km north of Kotka amid the salmon-rich Kymijokis rapids, this simple wooden lodge was built in 1889 for Tsar Alexander III. Most of the furniture is original and rooms look much as they did when he was a frequent visitor. The riverside forest setting (now a 28-hectare nat
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Sallivaara
Accessed off the Inari–Kittilä road, 70km southwest of Inari, this reindeer round-up site was used by Sámi reindeer herders twice yearly until 1964. Round-ups were an important social event, lasting several weeks and involving hundreds of people and animals. The corrals and cabins
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Cavalry Museum
The cavalry are honoured as Lappeenranta’s greatest heroes and the former garrison (the town’s oldest building) now houses this museum in their honour. It tells how this band of red-trousered warriors began as the finest mounted forces in the Russian Empire and throughout the 1920s
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Gustaf
In the town centre, an elegant white 1930s modernist mansion, formerly company HQ of the Serlachius family that founded the town, is now a museum. There’s a most comprehensive display on the history of the paperworks and family, with audio exhibits on every conceivable aspect: you’
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Wasalandia
Great for preteens, Waslandia is the centrepiece of the island of Vaskiluoto, with lots of pirate-themed rides and a traffic park for junior drivers. Across the road, the outdoor Tropiclandia has enough water slides, wave machines, Jacuzzis, saunas and spa treatments to keep both k
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Kuopion Korttelimuseo
This block of old town houses forms one of Kuopio’s delightful museums. Several homes – all with period furniture and decor – are very detailed and thorough and the level of information (in English) is excellent. Apteekkimuseo in building 11 contains old pharmacy paraphernalia, whi
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Pirunpesä
OK, so its a hole in the ground, but its Europes deepest, at 23m, with a diameter of 14m, and mystery surrounds its origins (glacial erosion or a natural-gas blow-out are the most plausible theories). You can descend a metal staircase into the cavity or view it from the 21m-high ob
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Helsinki Zoo
This spacious island zoo is located on Korkeasaari, best reached by ferry from the kauppatori. Established in 1889, it has animals and birds from Finland and around the world housed in large natural enclosures, as well as a tropical house, a small farm, and a good cafe and terrace.
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Historiallinen Museo
Next to the prison museum, the unassuming historical museum has displays labelled in English and covers the history of the town and the social history of the Häme region, with information on refugees from Karelia, the lynx, the town fire of 1831, and pop-culture memorabilia. While
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