Blog
CATEGORIES
CATEGORIES
View all articles Ancient sites and archeological discoveries Artifacts of the viking gods Concepts Daily life in the viking age Dwarfs Giants and giantesses Mythological creatures Norse symbols Other locations Runes Scandinavian Sagas Servants in Norse mythology The Conquest Geography The Great Vikings The nine worlds in norse mythology Travel advices Viking beasts Viking Goddesses Viking Gods Viking holidays Viking ships and boats Viking weapons and armor
11.08.2020
Arktikum Science Museum, Rovaniemi Arctic - Museum and Science Centre in Rovaniemi, Finland . The building is also a popular cultural centre and a meeting and conference venue, with a café and library for customer service. Two separate exhibitions operate in the Arctic, the Arctic Centre and the Provincial Museum...
view 
10.08.2020
Turku Biological Museum The Turku Biological Museum opened on 15 July 1907. The story of the museum starts in 1902 when the Turku City Council received an anonymous donation for 50 000 marks for an unspecified purpose. Later it was revealed that the donation had been made by Alfred Jacobsson, the...
view 
09.08.2020
Waino Aaltonen Museum of Art, Turku Aaltonen Museum Väinö (WAM) is an art museum in Turku focusing on contemporary art. Since 2009, WAM is the administrative part of the Turku Museum Center . The exhibition is based on the Turku Art Collection, which includes, among other things, the works of Väinje...
view 
08.08.2020
Ett Hem Museum, Turku The museum was founded by the will of Alfred and Helen Jacobsson on 18 February 1925. At that time, the house on Hämeenkatu was donated to the Academy Foundation of the University of Ebo. The will stated that the donators' house in a two-storey stone building would be...
view 
07.08.2020
Qwensel House and Pharmacy Museum, Turku House Kvensel is the oldest wooden house in Turku, Finland. It is a bourgeois dwelling from Autarque times, which has been preserved in its entirety. The house was built around 1700 on an area that was reserved for the nobility in the city plan drawn up by Peter Brahe in 1652. Today...
view 
07.08.2020
Turku Art Museum Turku Art Museum is one of the most important art museums in Finland, located in Turku, on Puolalanmäki Hill (Aurakatu, 26). The building of the museum was built in the style of national romanticism by architect Carl Gustav Nustrem. The basis of the art collection was laid by...
view 
07.08.2020
Sibelius Museum, Turku Sibelius Museum is a music museum named after Finnish composer Jan Sibelius. The museum is located near the Turku Cathedral in the historic centre of Turku on the southwest coast of Finland. It is the only music museum in Finland . The museum has an extensive collection of historical...
view 
07.08.2020
Forum Marinum, Turku Forum Marinum is a center for the study of the history of navigation and shipbuilding, located in Turku. The main directions of the center's work are museum, research and archival activities. Forum Marinum was established in 1999 by merging the Turku Navigation Museum, founded in...
view 
06.08.2020
Turku Cathedral Turku Cathedral - the main Lutheran temple in Finland. Built in the second half of the XIII century, it was consecrated in 1300 in honor of the Virgin Mary and the first Bishop of the country - St. Henry, who baptized Finland. The cathedral was laid in 1258 and built in the North...
view 
06.08.2020
St Henry's Ecumenical Art Chapel, Turku The Ecumenical Art Chapel of St. Henrik is a wooden church in Turku district of Kaistarniogo on the island of Hirvensalo. The chapel was opened on Pentecost Sunday 2005. (15 May). It was planned by Matti Sanaksenaho and his wife Pirjo, who won a design competition in January 1996 with...
view