Kouvolan koti- ja radiomuseo
The Kouvola museum quarter houses a home museum showing everyday life in the 20th century, as well as a radio museum and a military radio museum.
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About the museum
The museum’s main building was built in 1906 and was the former home of the family of locomotive driver Hjalmar Kuokkanen. The rooms of the house are furnished in the styles of different decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s, and display period radios, telephones and record players.
The second building houses the radio museum, whose collection includes about 300 radios from different countries and periods, from early crystal receivers to cabinet radios of the 1950s and 1960s. The storerooms hold a further 2,000 objects. Among the rarities is a cabinet radio from 1942–43 whose dial shows the Äänislinna (Petrozavodsk) radio station. The radio collection has been browsable online since 2016.
The military radio museum presents radio equipment used during the Winter War and the Continuation War and after the war, such as Kyynel radios, the Töpö radio used by long-range reconnaissance patrols, the radio of the spy Kerttu Nuorteva and bunker radios. The museum is run by the Kouvolan Putkiradiomuseosäätiö (Kouvola Valve Radio Museum Foundation).
Highlights
- Rooms of the home museum furnished in the styles of different decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s
- About 300 radios, from crystal receivers to cabinet radios
- Military radios from the Winter War and the Continuation War
- Radio of the spy Kerttu Nuorteva
- Radio made for the 1940 Helsinki Olympics
Permanent exhibitions
- Kotimuseo – The rooms of the locomotive driver’s house, built in 1906, are furnished in the styles of different decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s.
- Radiomuseo – About 300 radios, from crystal receivers to cabinet radios of the 1950s and 1960s, as well as record players and tape recorders.
- Sotilasradiomuseo – Radio equipment used during the Winter War, the Continuation War and after, including Kyynel radios and bunker radios.
- Operated by
- Kouvolan Putkiradiomuseosäätiö
Admission & discounts
| Adults | €7 |
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| Children & teens | freeChildren enter free of charge. |
The prices apply to the opening hours of the 2026 summer season.
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Plan your visit
| Good to know | The home museum is in the main building, and the radio museum and the military radio museum are in the second building. Groups can also arrange a visit with the museum outside the summer season. |
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