The open-air museum has around 17 buildings moved from different villages, including a working smithy and a windmill. Its 1753 lending granary was one of the first three in Ostrobothnia, according to the website. Around 6,000 textiles include mainly late-19th-century wool-blend pieces, often predominantly red, alongside festive costumes, bedding and farm clothing.
Other buildings include a smoke sauna, a soldier's cottage, a rye-drying barn, a baking exhibition and an 1890 stonemason's farm. The church stable is the sole survivor of about a hundred once beside the church. Summer exhibitions change theme each year; school time-travel programmes require advance booking. Accessible parking is provided.
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