Helsinki Day 4

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On Thursday, we went to the museum island Seurasaari. I thought we would spend just a couple of hours there, but the weather was nice, and there were plenty of kids’ activities, so we ended up staying there almost until closing (or rather until it started to rain).

I just realized after checking my June blog entries that I didn’t even had time to post about Sauresaari in June, when I visited the museum with Natasha’s family. In comparison with the June visit, there were more open houses, more activities for children, and more food available in the cafe, so the whole visit was even more fun than I expected. I will add some of my June pictures to that post.

The Museum was opened in 1909, and it hosts old buildings from different parts of FInland which are being carefully moved to the island and rebuilt/restored there. In addition, each house contant s gigantic collection on different household objects from the correspnding region/historical period. Also, I love it when you can climb the rocks and smell the pines.

The boat shed
A farmstand
A bird’s nest on the old cottage roof (June picture)
Meat stoed uphigh so that the animals would’n reach it
When we visited with Natasha’s family, it was a bright sunny day, and we could see most of the inside of the houses. But this time, it was dark, and the girls were often efraid to get inside the houses. There is almost no daylight coming inside, the windows are tiny (relatively big in this one, but way smalled in the others)
Skates
Tiny windows
The church boat
Potection from thr birds
Inside the church
Carelian house
Inside Caelian house (you can lean a lot of history if you don’t reveal your national identity)
The guest room
A telephone booth from the earliy 19th century
A proper salmon soup
Eadable wild mushrooms
The larger windmill
Also eadable, but almost expired 🙂
A perfect blueberry patch
This room was made for a tzar’s visit (he ended up not staying overnight, but only stopping for a couple of hours)
The children’f loft (they had a list of chores that children would perform on different days of the week, about tons of props)

As I said, if the rain won’t start at 4 PM, we would stay until closing!

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