Forestry Museum offers full season with 1 ticket

The Forestry Museum of Lapland in Rovaniemi is offering the opportunity to the local people to use a single ticket for repeated visits during the entire summer.

The offer is aimed to perk up the local residents’ interests in the world’s lone museum that focuses on fostering the history of forest work in Finnish Lapland.

The museum authorities have decided that if any local person visits the museum, the visitor will be charged for the first time only and will be eligible to visit it as many times as one wish from June 1 to August 31.

The authorities planned to make such an offer in next winter also to attract more people round the year to the museum, which saves, researches, maintains, and features the cultural heritage of Lapland’s forestry, said Topi Varhimo, the official on duty at the museum, to the Daily Finland.

“We hope if the visitors get free entry after the first visit, they would be interested to repeat the visit and there is also a chance that they may bring their friends with them,” Varhimo said.

The offer, however, is not applicable for the tourists, although the number of foreign tourists is increasing by the day.

Varhimo said the museum authorities are disseminating a brochure among the foreign tourists in a number of languages, including English, Swedish, French, Dutch, Italian, and Chinese, in addition to Finnish.

“We are planning to publish the brochure in some more foreign languages following the increasing trend of arrival of foreign tourists in the country. For example, the brochure in Chinese language was introduced just one year ago,” Varhimo added.

The museum in the city’s Pöykkölä area, just 3.5 kilometres off the city centre, opened to public in 1968. It is also a beautiful architecture and so one of the tourist attractions of Rovaniemi.

The museum premises have 14 houses offering the visitors a chance to explore and learn about a genuine, experiential history of forest work.

Some noted artefacts at the museum are the Ahmakuusikko Cabin, which was transferred from the village of Hirvas near Rovaniemi and represents the 1950s logging history; the Horsemen’s Cabin, which was a living house for two or three horsemen’s team; the Luiro Cabin, which was built just before the Second World War near the headwaters of the Luiro River in Sodankylä that shows how catering improved in logging camps in the 1930s; and the Floating Cabin, which was built in 1904 in the village of Koivu, Tervola and presents Lappish foremen’s living standards. The steam tugboat Uitto 6, another heritage to watch, was built in Oulu in 1898.

The museum remains open from 11.00am to 5.00pm from Wednesday to Sunday and remains closed on Monday and Tuesday.

A ticket for an adult costs six euros, for children aged seven to 16, students, pensioners, and military personnel it costs four euros, while children under seven can visit the museum free of cost.