South Karelia Automobile Museum

This museum of cars for the region of South Karelia in south-east Finland was created by a voluntary association in 1991. It is housed in a former barn close to motorway 6. Since 2022, it has been joined by the Finnish license-plate museum, which contains examples of number plates and assists people to date old photographs in which vehicles can be seen. The focus of the displays is some 30 cars and 20 motorcycles dating from the 1920s to the 1980s by a wide range of European and American manufacturers. Some are owned by the museum itself but most belong to members of the association. A few other kinds of vehicles are also on display, including bicycles, snowmobiles and a tractor. A smiths’ workshop has been reconstructed and there are displays of outboard motors from boats, old photographs and artefacts related to motoring and to motor-racing at Imatra.