Jan Karlsgarden Open Air Museum, Aland, Finland

4.5 (17 reviews) Friday: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Spent 1-2 hours Ranking #8 in Aland Speciality Museums • History Museums

interesting 'Rodfärgskokning'

The Jan Karlsgarden Friluftsmuseum next to the Kastelholm Slott is an open air museum giving a good insight into the rural past of the Alands. There are several buildings from the 18th and 19th century to see with sometimes people in traditional costume performing time-honoured crafts. I was especially fascinated watching two ladies at the 'Rodfärgskokning', stirring a long stake in a big pot with boiling red dye. Several of the buildings and barns of this open air museum are painted in that copper-based falun red, so typical of the Swedish and Finnish countryside. The 'Wärdshus' here functions as a self service restaurant, where we had coffee and a quite good Aland's Pannkaka with Sviskonkräm (a prunes compote). What is not missing at this museum is a maypole. From here we went to visit the separate Prison Museum by the entrance.
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Address

Kungsgårdsallén 5 Kastelholm, 22520 Finland

Mobile

+358 45 73500558

Website

http://www.kastelholm.ax/en/2012/12/jan-karlsgardens-friluftsmuseum/

Working hours

Monday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday : 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Current local date and time now

Friday, May 10, 2024, 15:08

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4.5 based on (17 reviews)

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4niinan2 5:00 PM Jul 30, 2020
Nice additions to the Kastelholm castle
The Jan Karlsgården open-air-museum and the Vita Björn prsion museum are nice additions to the Kastelholm castle. With the same ticket you can visit them all. There are several old buildings in the open-air-museum and at least some of them can be visited. There is also two old windmilss. The Vita Björn prsion museum shows what prison cells used to look in the past. There is a nice cafe next to the prison museums from where you can buy the famous Åland pancake
4K B 5:00 PM Jul 22, 2022
Lovely place: worth a visit
It was worth the time to take a walk around this open air museum featuring rural farm buildings. Some were open to tour. The main house featured a friendly woman spinning yarn. Near the Kastelholm castle which, unfortunately, was not open at our visit.