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In 1924, the Finnish Tourist Association urged Finns to build observation towers in scenic areas. The influential people in Southwest Häme started to do everything. The opening of Tammela's Kaukolanharju lookout tower was celebrated in July 1926. In the festive speeches, it was hoped that the lookout tower would develop our sense of beauty as well as refine our inner man, and teach us to respect God, love our neighbors and our home region, and the whole country. The landscape from the observation tower inspired at least the artist Albert Edefelt, who painted one of the most famous Finnish landscape paintings ?Kaukolanharju at sunset?.
View moreThe Hanko museum was founded as early as 1907, although the beginning was a bit rocky. Tammisaari had its own museum established in 1906, so Hanko had to have one as well. The beginning of the 20th century was a lively time in the museum field in Finland anyway. It was important to highlight Finland's distinctive features amidst the Russification attempts at the beginning of the century. The museum started its operations in Fohlin's hut on Korkeavuorenkatu.
View moreThalatta! Thalatta! Greek warriors shouted for joy this word for the sea 400 years before the end of time. The poorly run military expedition turned into a relief when they saw the homely shores of the Black Sea. A couple of thousand years later, even in Hanko you can shout for joy Thalatta! Then you will say hello to a wonderful wooden villa on the southern slope of Vartiovuori right by the sea.
View morePresentation of Pekka Lind's art collection | I have no artistic talent of my own. I could hardly even draw a stick figure. The greatest achievement of my artistic life has happened as a little boy in a well-known Finnish folk play, where I had to draw a "spider's picture" on Muttinen Aapel's wall board! That too required a lot of guidance from the older boys. To this day, I still don't know how I succeeded, because the audience just burst out laughing at the picture I drew with charcoal. It was definitely best for me to move from making art to the buyer side.
View moreThe series of ceramic sculptures “Valoa pinnan alla” (Light beneath the surface) by Paula Blåfield, located in the H Building of the Vaasa Central Hospital depicts the rich underwater world of the flads and gloes of the Northern Quark. A variety of underwater growth glimmers as the sun sheds light on them through the water.
View moreThe sculpture “Exuvia” by sculptors Pekka and Teija Isorättyä is located in the H Building of the Vaasa Central Hospital and depicts a common blue damselfly found in gulfs of seas and lakes. The Isorättyä couple got the idea for the sculpture on a hot summer morning while sailing on waters of the Northern Quark. A large group of turquoise common blue damselflies flew around their boat, like dancing pixies.
View moreThe so-called Percent for Art Principle was applied in procuring art for the H Building of the Vaasa Central Hospital in order to bring joy to both the hospital’s customers as well as the people who work there. The art found in the H building comprises both works commissioned for the hospital and deposited works. In addition, photographs from the various municipalities of the wellbeing services county can be found printed on different surfaces.
View moreThe series of works “Herbarium” by the photographer Sandra Kantanen, located in the H Building of the Vaasa Central Hospital presents familiar and exotic plants with microscopic precision. The plants are photographed with a scanner and the resulting images are processed to such a large size that even the smallest details can stand out. The almost unnatural precision of the images manages to uncover something about the structure of nature.
View moreOn the dark and rainy evening of October 1957, the motor ship Asa Finn, which was sailing in coal cargo, got lost on the fairway west of Hanko and crashed into the rocks. The mainings of the passing ships rocked the ship and Asa Finn began to fill with water. Captain August Route drove the ship to the nearest shoal where it sank between Lilla and Södra Klippingen. Asa Finn was just one of the names of the ship. During the Prohibition Act, the ship chartered relief for the thirsty from the southern neighbor and it was known by the nickname Pirtu-Veera. The ship was built in 1918 in Norköping, Sweden and was baptized in Wera.
View moreIn Lapland, Inari and Sodankylä, Finland, the only topsoil Gold Fields in Finland have been economically viable for gold panning. There have been several gold miners in the Lemmenjoki area. Some of them were professionals using machines but for many gold mining was a way of life. Gold digger Jaakko Kangasniemi surveys the Lemmenjoki gold rush in an interview with journalist Seppo J. Partanen.
View moreThree nautical miles from the tip of the park cliffs to the east is Sandskär Island. On the quiet summer days of the mid-1920s, the voice of the famous singer Helge Lindberg was far from there. During the summer, he rehearsed 8 concert programs on his own island and gave another hundred concerts across Europe each year. The family's actual hometown was Vienna.
View moreThe ghost at the tomb of the story has been considered partly autobiographical: like Sara Wacklin, a poor girl who has lost her father collects crumbs of information from here and there, “like a blind chicken,” and manages to feed her mother and teacher with earnings. The story is from Sara Wacklin's book? Hundrade minnen från Österbotten? from 1844.
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