EXPLORING SEURASAARI ISLAND: A GLIMPSE INTO FINLAND’S PAST

Seurasaari Island in Helsinki is best known as the home to the popular open-air museum. This venue offers a glimpse into the life of Finland’s countryside in various epochs, showcasing old, mainly wooden houses, some of which – once lived in by famous people in Finnish history – were transplanted to the island and thus became part of the museum.

87 separate buildings give an overall view of the life in Finnish countryside from the 18th to the 20th. At the Open-Air Museum of Seurasaari the traditional Finnish way of life is displayed in the cottages, farmsteads and manors of the past four centuries that have been relocated from all around Finland.