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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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06.08.2020
Aboa Vetus and Ars Nova, Turku Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova - Museum of History and Modern Art, opened in 1995 in the center of Turku , Itäinen rantakatu 4-6. The Latin name of the museum means "Old Turku and New Art", which refers to the dissertation of Daniel Juslenius, published in 1700, "Aboa...
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06.08.2020
Luostarinmaki Museum Quarter, Turku Luostarinmäki Museum Quarter is an open-air museum located in the center of Turku, near Vartiovuori. Administratively, the museum belongs to the Turku Museum Center . As an open-air museum, it is extremely valuable throughout the world, as the buildings in this area are in their...
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05.08.2020
Turku Castle Turku Castle, Obu Castle - A Swedish castle in Turku (Finland), which acquired a close to modern look during the reign of Gustav Vasa. Turku Castle is one of the most remarkable state medieval castles in Finland. From time to time it played a major role in the history of Sweden and...
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