Granösund Fishing Museum
Bulleråsvägen 320, 65930 Södra Vallgrund
www.granosund.hembygd.fi
An open-air museum that shows what life was like in the archipelago in bygone days, when the livelihood of the local population was dependent on fishing, seal hunting, farming, and handicraft, as well as seafaring, including maritime piloting.
Cronoholmen Shipyard
Jouxnabbavägen 20, 68500 Kronoby
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www.kronoby.hembygd.fi
The ships that supplied the army of the powerful Swedish kingdom at the end of the 1600s were built at the shipyard. View the exhibition and find out about the history behind it.
Kilen Homestead Museum
Kilvägen 90, 64490 Sideby
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www.kilen.fi
Kilen is an open-air museum and culture centre, with a restaurant, a guesthouse, a caravan park and a marina. At the marina, there is an exhibition that offers insight into shipbuilding and provides a glimpse of the lives of shipbuilders in Sideby during the 1890s. Some of the ships that were built in Sideby during that era are also presented.
Korsnäs Local Museum
Kyrkobyvägen 32, 66200 Korsnäs
www.korsnas.hembygd.fi
Korsnäs Local Museum consists of several buildings that house permanent exhibitions, of which the best known is the collection of Korsnäs knitted sweaters. The museum’s second floor houses an exhibition on seal hunting, and there is a clinker boat in the museum collection that was built using only wooden pegs, or dowels.
Kvarken Boat Museum
Åminnevägen 433, 66100 Malax
www.museum.malax.fi
Experience Finland’s largest museum for Ostrobothnian working boats. In the various museum buildings, located in a culturally valuable historical harbour setting, you can see fishing tackle and displays about seal hunting, rafting and archipelago life, as well as a total of 125 boats/canoes and 175 boat engines. Exhibitions also in summer.
Old Vaasa Museum
Köpmansgatan 10, 65380 Gamla Vasa
www.vaasankaupunginmuseot.fi
In Old Vaasa museum, you can immerse yourself in the history of Vaasa’s old town, including for instance the old shipping agency office, which was constructed in the likeness of Abraham Falander’s and C.G. Wolff’s shipping company offices from the 1800s. Falander and Wolff were among Finland’s wealthiest merchants and most prominent shipowners.
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