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THE FLOORS

THE STOREYS

MUSEUM OPERATION

TURKANSAARI OPEN-AIR MUSEUM

FINNISH HOMEPAGE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
THE DOGHILL

The Doghill exhibition is based on
the Doghill books written by Finnish author
Mauri Kunnas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read  more about
The Doghill Exhibition
(pdf)

 

 

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.

 

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.
 

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