People coming on Porvoo Tours, must visit the Museums in Porvoo. The charming town of Porvoo, located 50 kilometers east of Helsinki, is a popular tourist destination. There are abundant Museums in Porvoo.
Museums of Porvoo
- Porvoo Museum / Holm House
Built in 1763, it will provide the opportunity to observe how a wealthy Porvoo merchant family lived at the end of the 18th century. The tourists can visit the living room, salon, smoking room, kitchen of the house.
- Porvoo Museum/ Historical Museum
Porvoo Museum, both a historical museum and an art museum, is one of the famous Tourist Attractions in Porvoo. The museum mainly features the18th and 19th century objects and textiles connected with the local civic culture as well as peasant artifacts from the neighboring district.
The picture archive houses about 125,000 negatives, photographs, slides and postcards while the historical archive dates back to as far as the 16th century, but the collections are mostly from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Outboard Museum
Situated in one of the unique shore houses on the banks of the Porvoo River, the museum restores an outboard motor repair shop of the middle of the last century.
Doll and Toy Museum of Porvoo
Situated in a 19th century house on Jokikatu Street in the Old Town of Porvoo, the museum is recognized as one of the best toy museums in the country and features a wide variety of toys that have all been played with at some point in time.
Albert Edelfelt Studio Museum
Built for the artist Albert Edelfelt in 1883, the museum features the treasured collections of the artist.
Horbergsgarden Museum
The museum portrays life on a late 19th century archipelago farm on Pellinki Island.
J.L. Runeberg's Home
The famous national poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg along with his wife Fredrika and their two sons moved to Porvoo in 1837 and they lived in different parts of the city before settling into a new home in the Empire district in 1852. The home was opened to the visitors in 1882 and was refurbished with piety during the beginning of this millennium.
The well- preserved collections in the Runeberg home include several works of art, the hunting weapons in the ketunnahkakamari and the porcelain in the cupboards, which all serve as excellent outstanding reminders of the everyday and festive life of the Runeberg family.
Krako Boat-building Museum
Opened in 1989, the museum houses the history of traditional boat-building on Krako Island.
The Porvoo museum of Natural History
The animals in this museum are exhibited that mimic their natural environments.
Postimaki
Located about 7 kilometers from downtown Porvoo, it is one of Finland's best-preserved cottage areas.
Qvis Wilhelms Marthastuga
The unique 18th century cottage has with a large living room and two bedrooms, contains artifacts preserved by the villagers.
Walter Runeberg's Sculpture Collection
The collection here includes more than 100 of works, including the drafts for monumental works of art, plaster sculptures, and a large portrait gallery of Walter Runeberg (1838-1920), one of the most important Finnish sculptors of his time.
Online information on Museums in Porvoo is provided by travel.mapsofworld.
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