Open Air Museum on Seurasaari Island

The Open Air Museum on Seurasaari Island is an island about three kilometers long in the western part of Helsinki. The island is the People's Museum of the Finnish way of life and traditions.

There are 87 houses and buildings in the museum, all of them surrounded by a beautiful, forest landscape. Every summer the museum attracts a large number of visitors. The island itself is a unique natural habitat with a wide variety of wildlife.

The open-air museum was founded in 1909 on the island. The main purpose of the museum was to preserve the original rural architecture of the Finnish people.

Ancient buildings, estates, stables, sheds and utility rooms are collected and put in order, most of the buildings from unhewn logs and boards. Some houses were built in the 17th century. There are also architectural creations of the national Finnish revival of the model of the late nineteenth century. The oldest house is Karuna Church. There are courtyards of well-to-do Finnish masters, a priest's house, huts and outbuildings, saunas, stables, sheds, barns, water and windmills, tarmacs.

Seurasaari, like many others, is connected to the continental part of the land by a special pedestrian bridge, so you can reach it at any time of the year.

In the open-air museum, you need to move only along the paths and go beyond the fences is strictly prohibited.