Forestry Museum of Lapland, Lapland, Finland
4.0 (17 reviews) Friday: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM Spent 1-2 hours Ranking #27 in Rovaniemi History Museums
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When looking for something different and interesting activity in Rovaniemi, welcome to the Forestry Museum of Laplands unique stage for history. It is the only museum in the world that tells a story of Lapland's great logging era extending from 1870's all the way through to machine operated forestry of 1960's-1970's. In the wooded museum area there are genuine logging cabins, logging tools, timber floating tools and forestry machines on display. Forest cabins and other buildings have been transferred to the museum's location from various parts of Lapland and all the cabins, stables and saunas have their own interesting history. Also the items on display have their own story: one of the most interesting and impressive items on the museum's ground is Sandberg's steam locomotive that was perhaps the first of its kind used on machine operated logging sites in Finland. Open 1.9. - 28.12.2018 fri-sat, 09am - 3pm
Address
Metsämuseontie 7, Rovaniemi 96460 Finland
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Website
http://www.lapinmetsamuseo.fi/
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Current local date and time now
Friday, May 10, 2024, 3:10
User Ratings
4.0 based on (17 reviews)
Reviews
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4Davvebiegga 5:00 PM Oct 23, 2020
Nice forest museum in the capital of Finnish Lapland
I stayed in Rovaniemi for over a week and took the bus from the center to visit the Forest Museum in Pöykkölä. It's an interesting open air museum with a lot of buildings, boats and machines. It tells you a lot about the logging history in Finland.
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4sarahdyorkshire 5:00 PM Feb 5, 2019
Great place to spend a few hours
The lady on reception was very friendly and gave us an English guide to follow around the museum. There are lots of log cabins to explore with boards inside showing you the history. Some of the old photos are amazing to look at. Very pretty place too as next to a lake. Glad we decided to stop by as was a nice couple of hours spent doing something unexpected. The boards could do with replacing in some of the cabins though.
