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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’

Finland’s national forestry museum is located in the Punkaharju region in the south-east of the country, an area rich in woodlands and with a long history of working timber. The permanent exhibition is [...] Forest’, and shows how forests have shaped patterns of work and leisure, beliefs and the arts in Finland over many centuries. The buildings within the museum include a former railway station, used as a

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

Copper ores were discovered in the Outokumpu district of eastern Finland in 1910 by the German geologist Otto Trustedt. Mining began in 1913 when a smelter came into operation. The smelter ceased working [...] and crushing plant. Displays illustrate the development of geological prospecting and mining in Finland, and the life and work patterns of mining communities.

Nakkila church in western Finland, designed by Erkki Huttunen and built in 1937 is regarded as an iconic building, and is the subject of a popular saying ‘by the Nakkila church’. It was paid for by a factory [...] cheese and buttermilk cheese, which is now a museum, showing the importance of the dairy industry in Finland. There are also sections showing how shoes and chairs were made in the early twentieth century, and

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

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

Finland’s national open air museum was established, like those of other Scandinavian countries, in the period of Romantic nationalism before the First World War, at a time when Finland formed part of the [...] centre of Helsinki by the ethnographer Axel Olai Heikel (1851-1924), and illustrates the history of Finland in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries through a collection of more than 80 buildings from all parts [...] water-powered saw mill and a country store of 1871. The Kurssi farmstead shows how in some parts of Finland weaving was an important summer time occupation before the development of textile factories. There

characterises the changes that took place in industry in Finland, and in other European countries in the course of the 20th century. All cables used in Finland had to be imported until the Suomen Kaapelitehdas [...] wrestling gold medallist, who had studied at Karlsruhe and worked in the Urals, and returned to Finland when it gained independence from Russia in 1917. The factory was built to the design of the architect [...] light-coloured brick. The complex extends over 5 ha, and was reckoned to be the largest factory in Finland. From the early 1960s Suomen Kaapelitehdas Oy became more concerned with electronics rather than

Finland's Museum of Technology, founded in 1969 and opened in 1975, is housed in the historic waterworks buildings that were built in the 1870s for the Helsinki Water Board and closed in the 1960s. They [...] ano at the mouth of the Vantaa River. The museum uses interactive exhibits to tell the story of Finland's development from an agrarian society to a leading developer and producer of high technology on

plant in a park at Vaasa (Swedish: Vasa), the regional capital of Ostrobothnia on the west coast of Finland. The city was laid out on a new plan in the style of the French Second Empire, devised by Carl Axel

manufactories gradually emerged, such as the saw mill in Räpina, glass works at Põltsama ... more FINLAND Finland’s rise as a prosperous industrial nation is due primarily to two very different factors: its extensive

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

he returned to Scotland ten years later, the company he established became one of the largest in Finland employing more than 3,000 people in the late 19th century. Production on the original site, in a [...] exhibition describes how Tampere became the largest industrial city in the country, “the Manchester of Finland”. Impressive museum artefacts and photographs introduce visitors to the industrial enterprises and

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

on the dials of radio sets in most European countries in the 1930s. Lahti is situated in central Finland, and after a private radio station began transmission there in 1924, it was chosen by the Finnish

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