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

Kuhala rapids in 1847. It was soon followed by a weaving mill, a yarn dyeing plant, and in 1861 Finland's first and for 60 years the only fabric printing plant. Initially, pattern designs and printing [...] and the studio department started at the factory in 1951. From 1934, the Forssa mills were part of Finland's largest textile factory, Finlayson. Finlayson fabrics were designed and printed in Forssa. During [...] gallery, focuses on contemporary and textile art. Forssa Museum was the Museum of the Year 2014 in Finland and a nominee for the Emya prize in 2015. In 2021, the museum opens a new site Pattern Centre, dedicated

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

exceptionally well-preserved blast furnace from 1823 is one of the few remaining blast furnaces in Finland and can be visited as part of a guided tour, during which you can take a look inside the furnace

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’

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

people in the new industries of Finland from around 1900 until the 1960s. The forestry and papermaking company Tornator began a factory on the River Vuoksi in south-east Finland in 1895. It built 20 apartment

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

buildings in countryside of fields and woodland in south-west Finland, built between 2005 and 2019. It explores the history of agriculture in Finland across 3,000 years. The main permanent exhibition is about

history of industrial-scale peat production in Finland. The extraction and use of peat for energy production began in Aitoneva during World War II. Finland was lacking sources of energy due to the difficulties

dyeworks before deciding two years later to seek opportunities in Finland. As a Jew, Wahren was disqualified from owning a business in Finland and so he converted to the Lutheran church. He leased a woollen [...] Wilhelm Wahren was a Swedish businessman who developed the new industrial community of Forssa in Finland in the mid-19th century, one of the country’s earliest industrial towns. He was born into a family [...] marketing them through regional representatives so that it became the leading woollen manufacturer in Finland. At this time it was still small by international standards, with fewer than 50 workers. However

thirties, Putilov left the military to develop business interests. He organized iron smelting in Finland using bog iron deposits transported on the Saimaa Canal. He set up iron foundries, made technical

played a large part in establishing the textile industry in Tampere, the principal industrial city in Finland. He was born at Penicuik and was a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers). He had some experience [...] factory for Tsar Alexander I (1777-1825) and distributing Bibles in the Russian language. He visited Finland in 1819 and subsequently gained permission to build a water-powered factory in Tampere alongside

to the navy and began a career designing and improving canals. He designed the Saimaa Canal in Finland and the enlargement of locks on the Trollhätte Canal in Sweden. With his son Werner he designed the

stockings and boots to the county hospital and the Swedish army, especially during the war with Finland in 1808-9. She imported wool from Denmark and Iceland and created a factory at her farm, which she

occupational safety and the provision of health facilities for industrial workers. On his return to Finland he managed a paper mill at Kangas in 1904-08, was managing director of the Kymmene forest products [...] talents and developed the company into one of the principal manufacturers of forest products in Finland, as well as playing a leading role in the establishment of national organisations representing the [...] Army during the Finnish Civil War of 1918, and was sent to Britain in 1939 to seek assistance for Finland after the invasion by the army of the USSR. He did much to make Mantta into a model industrial community

All the sites described are included on the ERIH website, among them the two ERIH members Baruth Glassmaking Village , widely regarded as one of the best-preserved glassworks in Europe, and the Immenh

sustainably? The keynote lectures will address the above questions based on case studies from Germany, Finland, Italy, Luxembourg, and Poland. The topics cover climate change, water management as well as sus

Kangasala is a town in western Finland, 20 km from Tampere, in an area of spectacular scenery commemorated in the poem ‘Summer Day in Kangasala’ written in 1853 by Zacharias Topelius. The Vehoniemen Automuseo [...] illustrate the history of motor transport generally and pay particular attention to motor cars built in Finland. The museum is the location for many events, particularly for gatherings of bikers. The shop prides