Working-Class Home Museum in Niitynpää
In Vaajakoski, a small red cottage peeks out at the edge of a forest. As you go past it, perhaps you wonder what that small red-ochre painted log building was in the past. These days it is a working-class home museum, but initially it was a croft. Later, the house was inhabited by, among others, the Rautiainen family: father, mother, and seven children. During the summer, you can immerse yourself in the life that was lived there and listen to stories hidden inside the small log building. The house is no longer inhabited, but what is the bootjack then?
Open during the summer
Place
Museopolku, Vaajakoski
How to get there: When approaching from Jyväskylä, turn from Vaajakoskentie into Niitynpääntie and then turn left into Museopolku.
Contact information
Museum of Central Finland
Tel: +358 50 563 8823
Email: [email protected]
- Croft was built in the 19th century
- The SOK Corporation bought the building in 1919
- Renovated from the outside in accordance with its appearance in the 1920s
- Furnished to represent life in the 1930s