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THE
FLOORS
THE STOREYS
MUSEUM OPERATION
TURKANSAARI OPEN-AIR MUSEUM

FINNISH
HOMEPAGE
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THE DOGHILL
The Doghill exhibition is based on
the Doghill books written
by Finnish author
Mauri Kunnas.
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You
may well be familiar with these excellent books and if so, you have
probably read them more than once. You can find them all in their daily
work at the museum: Master Pransi, his wife Fiina, their children
Kille, Martta,
Elsa, Tuomas and Tilta, their servant girls and hired men, not to forget
the old beggar Hiski. |

It is christmas and the Koiramäki folks are going to sauna. |
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You
can see how the entire farmyard of Doghill has been revived with its
farm works, duties and games. You will also notice how diligently and
consciously the scale models have been prepared. The
visitor will loose his heart to these cute doggies, kitties, horses and
crows. All tiny objects that you can find here: candle lamps, spinning
wheels, cheese moulds and all other utensils and tools of the Doghill
have been reconstructed in an astonishingly skilful way. |

Candels are made for Christmas.
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In this exhibition the Doghill household tells how people lived their daily life on a farm
and how they celebrated special occasions like Christmas in the old days.
This world in miniature brings to us everything that belonged to a
typical year on a farm: haymaking in the summer, sowing in the autumn,
the excitement of the Christmas season with its preparations like candle
making, for instance. We should neither forget many other daily duties
of the farm, nor the horses of the farm, Pekka and Rusko. |
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Published by:
Arja Keskitalo
curator
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