Salla Museum of War & Reconstruction, Lapland, Finland
4.0 (16 reviews) Friday: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Spent 1-2 hours Ranking #4 in Salla History Museums
Warm welcome - reveals a hidden part of the history
Salla Museum of War and Reconstruction is located in a building that was originally made 1948 for railway workers and their families. The Museum's exhibition tells about the history of Salla municipality which was known as Kuolajärvi until year 1936. Salla was involved in the Second World War (1939–1944) and suffered heavy destructions. An enormous effort was made to rebuild the municipality – by the year 1950 nearly 400 new farms, many schools and a church were built.
Address
Savukoskentie 12, Salla 98900 Finland
Mobile
Website
http://salla.fi/museo
Working hours
Monday :
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 :
Current local date and time now
Friday, May 10, 2024, 1:17
User Ratings
4.0 based on (16 reviews)
Reviews
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3Michael B 5:00 PM Aug 30, 2017
Small town
Good grocery shopping in village. Alko S-market, K market, petrol station and restaurants. We loved the landscape open forest and the fells.
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3PeasmoldWW 5:00 PM Aug 8, 2021
culd be so much more
I visited on a rainy day. The museum is well worth a visit and does a fine job of recording and illustrating the suffering that the region endured in the war and the valiant efforts of the displaced and dispossessed to rebuild their lives and communities. However, it could be so much more. In an age where this story has been repeated time and time again – in Bosnia, in the Congo and Rwanda, most recetly in Syria and Yemen, a museum dedicated to the inhumanity of ethnic cleaning and forced displacement in war, built upon the specific local experience, can convey a universal theme, one that everyone should relate to. The current space is underused – in particular, the former hostelry houses a collection of local handicrafts that really doesn’t belong here, and could be used instead to show how the horrors of the war period in Salla have been repeated globally in our own times, and how the world desperately needs a proper mechanism to support victims and prevent such tragedies in future.
