Lammintalo

About the museum

Lammintalo is Elias Lönnrot’s (1802–1884) retirement home in the village of Haarjärvi in Sammatti. Lönnrot retired from his professorship, bought Lammi, had a road built there and had the house repaired so that it could be lived in. From 1876 until his death he lived at Lammi with his two daughters. There, among other things, the Finnish-Swedish dictionary was completed in 1880, and Lönnrot also worked on legal texts and on the reform of the hymnal.

Lammi was originally a croft (torppa) of the Nikku farm, and it became a crown estate in the 1840s. The house developed from a modest croft into a home of the upper middle class: the main room (tupa), the entrance hall and the chamber (kamari) are the oldest rooms, which were extended with chambers and, during Lönnrot’s time, a fine hall (sali).

After Lönnrot’s death the movable property was auctioned, but thanks to the work of the Sampo association some of the objects were recovered in the 1950s and 1960s. In the yard there is also a building called Paratiisi (Paradise), which was important to Lönnrot’s daughters.

The Sampo association looked after the house from the 1950s onwards, and in 1987 it was donated to the Suomen Kulttuuriperinnön Säätiö (Finnish Heritage Foundation), of which Lammi was the first site. Lammi is, alongside the Runeberg home, one of the first buildings in Finland to be protected under the Building Protection Act on the basis of personal history, and the yard is a site of national significance for its built environment. On summer weekends local volunteer guides tell about the house and Lönnrot.

Highlights

• Elias Lönnrot’s retirement home and place of death
• Objects from Lönnrot’s time and belonging to him
• Combination of a smoke cabin and a 19th-century upper-middle-class home
• Lammintie road built by Lönnrot and the Paratiisi building in the yard
• Built cultural environment of national significance

Permanent exhibition

• Elias Lönnrotin vanhuudenkoti – The house displays objects from Lönnrot’s time and belonging to him, as well as the old main room, chambers and hall.

Founded

1987

Operated by

Suomen Kulttuuriperinnön Säätiö

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Getting there & parking

The road to the house is the Lammintie, built in Lönnrot’s time; it starts at the Paikkari croft and is about four kilometres long. Along the road the maximum length of a coach is 12.5 metres.

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