Roger writes:
Open 10-6 summer, 11-5 winter, every day
This is rather more sober than the Parola Tank Museum, and while it
nominally deals with the history of Finland's artillery it also
gives a more general military history of Finland during the
twentieth century (carefully set up, one feels, so as not to offend
the Soviets).
The museum is on three floors: the early days up to the Finnish
Civil War and the Jaegers, the Winter and Continuation Wars
(including a special exhibition to General Nehonen, who more or less
reinvented Finnish artillery practice from scratch) and later days
as well as special branches of service such as artillery
intelligence, and other materials including a tribute to Marshal
Mannerheim and notes on life in the Finnish army after World War
II.
Outside are the gun yard (70-odd guns of various types, those strong
enough to withstand the weather) and the gun hall (20-odd of the
rarer and more fragile guns). As one might expect, quite a few of
these are obscure Soviet pieces.
Most items are labelled in Finnish only, with major exhibits also in
English, Swedish and Russian. The gun yard has no labels at all; a
guide book may be a good idea.
If you are in the area, get a joint ticket with the Parola Tank
Museum, which is only a few miles away.
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