The Strömfors Ironworks in Ruotsinpyhtää near the south coast of Finland was founded in the 1690s and initially produced ingots from Swedish pig iron. Later the plant was equipped with a blast furnace [...] 250 years, the ironworks ceased operations in 1950. Today Strömfors Ironworks is considered one of Finland's best preserved ironworks villages. Among the surviving buildings is the brick building of a wa

Glasgow, with subsequent examples built in Germany, France and the United States, as well as in Finland. An exhibit of outstanding interest is a royal train built in the 1870s for the Czar of Russia.

mid-19th century to include table wares, and it remains the oldest glassworks still in production in Finland. The oldest remaining production and administration buildings dates from the 1850s. The workers’

Museum Gustaf is located in Mänttä-Vilppula, a beautiful lakeside town of about 10,000 people in West Finland, 90 km north-east of Tampere. Museum Gustaf’s exhibitions feature the history of Finnish paper industry [...] limited company and under the founder’s nephew, Gösta Serlachius (1876–1942) developed into one of Finland’s leading forest industry combines, producing timber, paper, cellulose pulp and roofing felt. Gösta

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

collection includes more than a thousand pairs of shoes, several of which belonged to presidents of Finland. There are also machines formerly used in shoe manufacture, and displays showing the production of

in 1964, but the buildings have been carefully preserved, and are funded by UPM-Kymmene, one of Finland’s largest wood-processing companies. The village attached to the mill is used by the company as holiday

The State Cartridge Factory (Lapuan Patruunatehdas, or Paukku) was established in 1923 to support Finland’s security after it declared independence from Russia in 1917. The Lapua brand of cartridges was exported

1929 by the company Ab Kemi, which developed sawmills and cellulose pulp mills in several parts of Finland. They are the last houses of about 40. The timber buildings are painted in traditional colours and

a museum in 1997. The most important exhibit is the original continuous board mill, the first in Finland, which was made by Heinrich Füllner in Lower Silesia and continued in operation until 1978. The machine

1907 to connect Lake Näsijörvi with Lake Toisvesi, and is regarded as one of the most beautiful in Finland. It was landscaped in the Romantic Nationalist style, and for much of its length is bordered by lines

an imposing Convair Metropolitan, of which relatively few were built, and many aircraft built in Finland or Eastern Europe. The collection also includes many components, engines, propellers, radio sets

museum for the area in 1982. It portrays the last hundred years of life on farms in that part of Finland, showing above all the impact of mechanisation on agriculture. The museum has a collection of more

started the industrialisation of Hyvinkää. Starting small, the wool spinning mill became one of Finland's notable textile factories, shaping Hyvinkää's growth and urban development for nearly a century

Tampere is the principal industrial city in Finland which prospered in the nineteenth century with the growth of the textile industry. Amuri is a working class district in the city which in 1900 had a

several changing ehxibitions take place at the museum every year. In Myllysaari one can also visit Finland's Football museum. Some few hundred meters away there is Kauppilanmäki outdoor museum where visitor

production finally ceased in 2011. The place is a real treasure of the history of industrialisation in Finland. In the foundry hall, all the machines are still in place and the workers' overalls hang on the hooks

furnaces, the forge and the machine shops, and establishing good living conditions for the workers. Finland’s first machinery workshop was built at Fiskars in 1837. The first Finnish steam engine was constructed

identified areas for development, and an exhibition in 2005 in collaboration with partners from France, Finland, the Czech Republic and Estonia explored possibilities for urban regeneration. A Museum of Industry

the need of the nation. Later on the ironworks started manufacturing the first aluminium boats in Finland, called Kellovene. The factory ceased operations in 1979. The museum exhibition on site presents