We open for the summer season on June 28, and the museum will then be open every day (Mon-Sun) 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. until August 15.
Here you can step right into the rural lifestyle of bygone days!
Stundars open air museum in the village of Solf in Korsholm consists of seventy buildings that were all relocated from villages in Korsholm and the Vaasa region. There is a country shop, a village school and a farmhouse as well as many artisans’ workshops and crofters’ cottages.
Tänä kesänä pidämme kolme teemapäivää, Textil Day 8.7., Food Day 22.7. and Farm Animals Day 7.8. We also spend national Day of the Visual Arts at 10.7 together with Open Air Museum Brage and Vasa City Museums.
Guided tours of the museum village
Ask for English Guided tours at Info when you come to the museum. Both standard guided tours and guided tours specially designed for children are given as part of the weekly program. Please book in advance if you require a guided tour at another time. We also hold a short ”lesson” at the village school.
Play environments
At Stundars, in an authentic atmosphere, children can imagine they are part of old-fashioned country life. In the Play Barn, our wooden animals need to be fed and cared for by small farmhands. In the Children´s Country Shop, young visitors can have fun weighing, measuring, buying and selling goods. In the Carpenter´s Workshop there are real tools and children can have a go at hammering and sawing. Various arts and crafts events take place in the museum village during the summer season. Right beside Cirkas Café & Shop, there is a newly rebuilt playground for children!
Animal Park
In the animal park you will meet our animals, sheep, hens and rabbits and you can see how the animals are fed and tended.
SUMMER PROGRAM 2021
MONDAYS
Guided tour of the Stundars farm animals 11:15 a.m.
Learn about the animals and how they lived 100 years ago. You get the chance to feed and tend to the animals. The tour is accessible to those with children’s prams and wheelchairs.
Language: Swedish, Finnish, English
Duration: 30 mins.
Country Shop open 12pm
Guided Tour in Finnish 1pm and in Swedish 2pm
Ask an English Guided Tour when you come to Stundars. How did people live over a hundred years ago? What was a typical working day like? How did homes, schools and shops look, and what was the history behind them? You can hear about these things and observe many other aspects of Ostrobothnian rural life on our guided museum tour. During the summer of 2020, all tours will be conducted outdoors and visitors can acquaint themselves with the indoor areas independently.
Duration: 45 mins.
TUESDAYS
Farm Animals Day 11-14.30
Guided tour of the Stundars farm animals 11:15am
Learn about the animals and how they lived 100 years ago. You get the chance to feed and tend to the animals. The tour is accessible to those with children’s prams and wheelchairs.
Language: Swedish, Finnish, English
Duration: 30 mins.
Pony visits Animal Park 12-1pm
See pony and if you want, you can nurse and maybe brush pony together with guide.
Country Shop open 12pm
Children’s tour 1pm
What was lifelike for children in the olden days? Did they go to daycare, or did someone else take care of them when both Mum and Dad had their hands full with the work of running the farm? Did the children do some of the farm work, and was there any time left to play?
Languages: Swedish, Finnish, English.
Duration: Approx. 20 mins.
Guided tour of the Stundars farm animals 1:30pm
Language: Swedish, Finnish, English
Duration: 30 mins.
Animal Guide at the Animal Park 2-3.30pm
WEDNESDAYS
Guided tour of the Stundars farm animals 11:15am
Language: Swedish, Finnish, English
Duration: 30 mins.
Country Shop open 12pm
A class from the past 1pm
Once the hygiene check of ears and nails is finished , the day’s lessons can begin at the village school. We read, write and do maths using traditional, tried and tested methods. The teacher hopes no one will have to be sent to the dunce’s corner, but that happens unfortunately, now and then.
Languages: Swedish, Finnish, English.
Duration: Approx. 30 mins.
Guided Tour 2pm
Languages: Swedish, Finnish, English.
Duration: 45 mins.
THURSDAYS
Children’s tour 11.15am
What was lifelike for children in the olden days? Did they go to daycare, or did someone else take care of them when both Mum and Dad had their hands full with the work of running the farm? Did the children do some of the farm work, and was there any time left to play?
Languages: Swedish, Finnish, English.
Duration: Approx. 20 mins.
Country Shop open 12pm
Guided Tour in Finnish 1pm and in Swedish 2pm
Duration: 45 mins.
FRIDAYS
A class from the past 11.15am
Languages: Swedish, Finnish, English.
Duration: Approx. 30 mins.
Children’s tour 1pm
Languages: Swedish, Finnish, English.
Duration: Approx. 20 mins.
Guided Tour 2pm
Languages: Swedish, Finnish, English.
Duration: 45 mins.
SATURDAYS
Children’s tour 11.15
Languages: Swedish, Finnish, English.
Duration: Approx. 20 mins.
A class from the past 1pm
Languages: Swedish, Finnish, English.
Duration: Approx. 30 mins.
SUNDAYS
A class from the past 11.15am
Languages: Swedish, Finnish, English.
Duration: Approx. 30 mins.
Guided Tour in Finnish 1pm
Guided Tour in Swedish 2pm
EVENTS AND THEME DAYS
8.7.2021 Textil Day
At Stundars Textil Day 8.7.2021 you will see textil exhibitions from museum´s collection, Taitoliittos exhibition of patcehd textiles, workshops, artisans at works, old times laundry, ironing and mangling.
10.7. Day of the Visual Arts
Stundars takes part to the national Day of Arts together with Brage Open Air Museum and Vaasa City Museums.
22.7. Food Day
7.8. Farm Animals Day
At Stundars Animal Park you can be and nurse the animals whole day together with animalnurse. There will be lambs, rabbits, chickens and pony.
In the Play Barn children can play old times farmplays with playanimals. Children may take their own hobby horse or stuffed animal with them.
Guided tours at Stundars Animal Park at 11.15 am and 2 pm.
Ostrobothnian Rabbit Jumpers
Hobby horse trail
Animal Painting
Program updates and includes to ticket.
Summer Exhibitions
Hemmer´s House
1.7-15.8.2020 Leif Strengell & Anni Laukka
Animal Barn
1.7-15.8.2020 Moa Cederberg
Stonemason´s Cottage
1.7-15.8.2021 Camilla Forsén-Ström
Farm House, Country Shop and The Smith´s Cottage
28.6.-15.8.2021 Textile Exhibitioin (together with Taitoliitto and Stundars textile collections)
Potter´s Cottage
28.6.-15.8.2021 Exhibition about linen
Latrine
28.6.-15.8.2021 Miniexhibition of the history of the toilet paper
