Hankasalmen museokylä

About the museum

The Hankasalmi Museum Village is a group of buildings in the church village of Hankasalmi, maintained by a local heritage association. Using buildings, objects, photographs and textiles gathered from various corners of the village, it tells of the lives of the people of the parish over hundreds of years. The museum village includes, among others, a smoke cabin, a clothes granary, a sauna, a cowshed, a kokkitalli (feed-cooking barn), a threshing barn, a windmill, a smithy, a charcoal hut and a boat shed.

The central building of the museum village is the Hallan tupa local heritage house, whose two tupas were built in different centuries: the smaller in the 1620s and the larger in the 1750s. Originally they were smoke cabins, and they were extensively renovated in 1851. The tupa was moved to the museum village in 1966, and its opening was celebrated in 1979. A thorough renovation was carried out in 2018–2020, and today Hallan tupa is also rented for celebrations and meetings.

About 200 metres outside the museum village, in a former grain storehouse completed in 1879, is an object museum, from which the Hankasalmi museum activities originally started. The local heritage association received the building as a gift in 1961, and museum activities began the following year. The permanent exhibition was renewed in 2016, and it covers, among other things, the prehistory of the area, the birth of the parish and the municipality, school and cultural history, and the history of farming and home life.

Highlights

• Hallan tupa, with two cottages dating from the 1600s and 1700s
• Smoke cabin, smoke sauna, threshing barn, windmill and other museum village buildings
• Object museum in a grain storehouse from 1879
• Wooden hobby horses, stick horses and picture orienteering for children
• The museum village and church form a regionally significant cultural environment

Permanent exhibition

• Esinemuseon perusnäyttely – The permanent exhibition, renewed in 2016, tells of the Hankasalmi cultural landscape, prehistory, the birth of the parish and the municipality, and the history of schools, farming and home life.

Operated by

Hankasalmen kotiseutuyhdistys ry

Admission & discounts

A guided tour outside opening hours costs €50.

Accessibility

The museum hasn’t published any information on this.

Kids & families

Great for kids & families

• Activity booklet, scavenger hunt or kids’ audio guide
• Hands-on stations

There are things for children to do at the museum village: in the stable they can ride wooden hobby horses and stick horses, and a picture orienteering form and a colouring picture can be printed from the website. The mascot of the museum village is Miku the cat.

Getting there & parking

The museum village is located in the church village of Hankasalmi next to the church and the new school centre. The object museum is about 200 metres from the museum village.

Amenities & dining

The museum hasn’t published any information on this.

Events & venue rental

• Spaces for rent
• Private parties
• Corporate events

Hallan tupa is rented for celebrations and meetings from March to December.

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