Good place to visit in the center of Joensuu city, with souvenir shop and cafe. Easy to find and friendly for all tourists. There is also a computer with access to internet in the museum, so you can check your mail.

Worth every single moment I spent there. I learnt a lot about Karelian places I wanted to visit eventually in the region. Bombin talo is next on my list thanks to this place!

Karelia stretches from the White Sea coast to the Gulf of Finland, containing huge woods and the two largest lakes of Europe, Lake Ladoga and Lake Onega. This is a part of our continent that most of us overlook. The climate is harsh, and most of it is Russian backlands. The sparse population spoke what must be considered as either a dialect of Finnish or a language closely related to Finnish. Still today some 100.000 people in Russia have Karelian mother tongue.A tiny part of Karelia lies within present day Finland. But Karelia is of tremendous importance as the historic root of Finnish mythology and culture.This museum gives, for only 5€, plenty of information about the history of this huge region with a lot of photos. And the expositions are aesthetic and pedagogical.I am particularly happy over the expositions' gaze on history: They give the perspective of the inhabitants, not the perspective of the states or of the nations.

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