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SAARIJÄRVI
Saarijärvi Museum

The Saarijärvi Museum is a town maintained regional museum in Saarijärvi, serving the whole district surrounding the town. The first local museum exhibition was held by the Saarijärvi Society already in the early 1950s. The municipal Saarijärvi Museum was founded in 1986 and the new main building of the museum was opened to the public on the 1st July 1989. The Saarijärvi Museum serves as the art and cultural history museum of the local area. The main office is in the premises located by the road Paavontie that were designed as the museum building and finished in 1989. The Museum operates as the region’s research institute and data bank. It’s also responsible for two local art collections.

The most visible form of the Museum’s work is organizing special exhibitions that are either national or related to the local region and vary in subject from cultural history to art. The exhibition Paavo’s path – people from Central Finland building Finland is the main exhibition for the year 2017. It’s on display from 10th June 2017 to 7th January 2018. The exhibition leads a visitor from the times of Finnish cultural awakening to modern-day Finland through Central Finland people, phenomena and events. Some of the exhibition’s themes are national landscape, national character, educational work, culture and art, economy, sports, and also forest and sauna. In the museum’s yard is the basic exhibition of Saarijärvi’s art in the sculpture park, a restored garden on traditional plants, lakeside meadow with sheep and the Toivi Järvinen Art Home, which is open for public via pre-booking. The museum also facilitates a café and a museum shop.

The Museum’s locales, the Gentry Home Museum and the J. L. Runeberg exhibition, Juhola and the
Stone Age Village are open in the summer season. The Gentry Home Museum is in a building that dates back to the 1780s. Upstairs there’s an exhibition about the years (1823–1825) Finland’s national poet J. L. Runeberg spent time in Saarijärvi as a private tutor. Downstairs it’s possible to see how the gentry lived in the early 19th century. Juhola is an old farm which exhibits the life of Tapper family and especially the famous Tapper brothers: two authors, a sculptor and a theatre set designer. In the Stone Age Village the visitor is taken back to the time of our ancestors. The locale, located on the shore of a lake, is a reconstruction of a late Stone Age village based on archaeological research.

The Saarijärvi Museum, founded in 1986, is a town maintained regional museum in Saarijärvi. The Museum operates as the region’s research institute and data bank preserving information and historical artifacts. The museum is also responsible for two local art collections. The most visible form of the Museum’s work is organizing special exhibitions varying from cultural history to art. The exhibition Paavo’s path – people from Central Finland building Finland, exhibiting the corner stones of Finland from sauna to sports, is the main exhibition for the year 2017. It’s on display from 10th June 2017 to 7th January 2018.

In the yard of the main building is the basic exhibition of Saarijärvi’s art in the sculpture park, a restored garden on traditional plants, lakeside meadow with sheep and the Toivi Järvinen Art Home, which is open for public via pre-booking. The museum also facilitates a café and a museum shop. In addition to the exhibition in the main building, museum has several summer locales. The Gentry Home Museum exhibits life of Finnish gentry in the 19th century and the years of our national poet, J. L. Runeberg in Saarijärvi. In the Stone Age Village the visitor is taken back to the time of our ancestors in a locale based on archeological research. The Tapper artist brothers’ childhood and early life home farm Juhola captures Finland’s recent history in one smallholding farm.

CONTACTS

  • Saarijärvi Museum
    Open 1.6.-31.8. Tue-Sun 12-18,
    1.1.-31.5. and 1.9.-31.12. Thu-Sun 12-18.

  • Herajärventie 2, 43100 Saarijärvi


  • Gentry Home Museum and the J. L. Runeberg exhibition
    Open 22.6–13.8.2017 Thu-Sun 12–18.
    Kolkanrinteentie 39, 43250 Kolkanlahti (Saarijärvi)


  • Juhola
    Open 17.6–13.8.2017 Sat-Sun 12–16.
    Ryöppäläntie 59, 43130 Tarvaala (Saarijärvi)


  • The Stone Age Village
    Open 10.6–13.8.2017 Tue-Sun 11–18,
    open every day in July.
    Kivikirveentie 10, 43130 Tarvaala (Saarijärvi)

<div>The sculpture park surrounding the Saarijärvi museum forms the basic exhibition of the art in Saarijärvi. Bronze statue Ikuinen liekki (The Eternal Flame) by Hannes Autere in the foreground. Photo: SM / Janne Timperi.</div><div>The exhibition Paavo’s path – people from Central Finland building Finland (on display 10th June2017 to 7th January 2018) covers the Finnish icons such as design and using wood as a building material. A Finnish national instrument kantele is located in the foreground. This particular kantele was manufactured in Saarijärvi and was a desirable piece of musical instrument as far as St. Petersburg . Photo: SM / Janne Timperi.</div><div>The Saarijärvi Museum also arranges the exhibitions in Juhola, The Tapper artist brothers’ childhood and early life home farm. Nowadays the old cowshed houses a gallery. In the summer 2017 there’s a photography exhibition portraying the life of the Tapper family and the desolating countryside in the 1960s Finland. Photo: SM / Riia Mäkinen.</div><div>In addition to gentry living, visitors of the gentry Home Museum can see how Finland’s national poet, J. L. Runeberg lived during his stay in Saarijärvi in the 1820s. Photo: SM / Juha Kallio.</div><div>Every single structure in the Stone Age Village, like the Rusavierto House in the picture, has been built based on archelogical research. Photo: SM / Kari Kotilainen.</div><div>The lakeside meadow next to the museum has a family of sheep at the summertime. Photo: SM / Janne Timperi.</div><div>The Saarijärvi Museum preserves, studies and produces new information about the local history. Riika Vepsä-Tapper donated a work-in-progress sculpture by Aino Tapper to the museum in 2016. Aino Tapper was the mother of Kain Tapper, the most famous Finnish sculptor. From left to right: Riika Vepsä-Tapper, museum assistant Merja Ylioja ja the museum director Kari Kotilainen. photo: SM / Janne Timperi.  </div><div>The main building of the Saarijärvi Museum. Photo: SM / Kari Kotilainen.</div><div>In the Stone Age Village visitors can try paddling with a wooden dugout, made in the same way as it was in pre-historical Finland. Photo: SM.</div><div>The Gentry Home Museum exhibits the life of Finnish gentry in the 19th Century. Photo: SM / Arto Turpeinen.</div>

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