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Museums in Finland

Helsinki Fire Museum

The Helsinki City Rescue Department's Fire Museum was opened on 12 February 1986. The museum, which displays several hundreds of intriguing items, has a floor area of 400 sq.m. The oldest item in the museum is a water reservoir from the 18th century, which was used as an auxiliary water tank as recently as the Second World War. Roughly 98% of the items on display have been used by Helsinki's actual fire brigade or contract fire brigades.

Palomuseo

Jakola Farm

One of Finland’s largest private car museums is found in the farmyard of Jakola. The car museum, collected and built by one man, Raimo Oikari, for fun of his retirement days houses about forty maintained vehicles in museum car condition. Most of the vehicles in the collection are of Eastern European origin, including a Trabant, but there's also a 1970s Chrysler, a 1950s Mercedes and a 1920s Ford.

Kuopio Car Museum

The Kuopio Automobile Museum is located in Puistokatu 22, right next to the local swimming hall and bowling hall.
The museum is administrated by a group of local car enthusiasts.
The museum contains a collection of old cars, motorbikes and motoring-related gadgets, for example taxi meters and license plates.

In the same building there's a café called Cafe Herkku Mobiili, where you can enjoy lunch and delicious pastries. The café is also rentable for different occasions and meetings.

Kuopion Automuseo

Lavia Bus Museum

Lavi, near Pori, used to be one of Western Finland's traffic hubs, through which more than 70 bus trips per day passed. V.Keto-Seppälän was based here and a bus museum is now occupying their former premises

Lavian linja-automuseo

Mobilia Road and Traffic Museum

Automobile and road museum Mobilia is situated at a beautiful site in Kangasala, by Längelmävesi lake, about 20 kilometres (13 miles) from Tampere. Mobilia experience is much more than just a museum; from permanent as well as annually changing exhibitions to a variety of exciting events – without forgetting the cafe restaurant and museum gift shop that are open for visitors daily. In 2016 a new section was opened: The Rally Museum was opened in June 2016. It is located in Mobilia's main building. The Rally Museum exhibits a wide range of rally cars from different eras.

Mobilia

Oulu Car Museum

About 60 vehicles are on display in the museum, and the oldest ones are always from the 1910s. There are cars, motorcycles, fire equipment, various engines, miniature models, photos and literature. Every year the museum has a changing exhibition theme. 

Oulun Automuseo