Vapriikki Museum Center in Finland, Tampere Resort
Rating: 7,5/10 (1956 votes)  The Vapriikki Museum Center is a large-scale museum and exhibition complex in the Finnish city of Tampere. It is housed in a huge building of the former Tampella engineering plant, built in 1880 on the banks of the Tammerkoski River. In this exhibition complex, the most amazing and varied experiences await visitors. Each year, Vapriikki hosts over ten temporary and permanent exhibitions on a variety of topics. The museum center also houses the Shoe Museum, the Finnish Hockey Museum, the Toy Museum and others. The Tammerkoski River Factory ceased to exist in 1990. Today, we witness a steam locomotive installed at the main entrance to the building about the activities of the plant and the products it produces. A few years after the closure of production, the adjacent territories were turned into a park. The workshops were also refurbished, they housed museum exhibitions with a total area of 13 thousand square meters. m. The main hall of the museum is 100 meters long and its walls are about 16 meters high. The factory buildings of today's Vapriikki Museum Center attest that industrial architecture exists and is truly beautiful. The exhibits can be seen on the way to the museum center. In particular, it is a brick booth with a portrait of a man on the wall. Going inside the booth and sitting on a chair inside it, you can understand that the booth is a model of a camera obscura. Light, coming through an inconspicuous hole, creates an inverted image of the museum courtyard on the opposite wall. The museum center includes various museums. In particular, it is a bird museum, featuring many stuffed birds in the Finnish forests and a playground inspired by the popular game"Angry Birds". The Hockey Museum keeps many awards - sports medals and cups. The Hockey Hall of Fame in Vapriikki is one of six museums in the world dedicated to the history of ice hockey. The shoe museum displays a wide variety of shoes from different times. In addition, in this museum you can test yourself in shoemaking skills by participating in the game"Make shoes". The Toy Museum will interest the youngest visitors: about 500 Finnish and foreign toys, toy houses and apartments with furniture, dishes and various household utensils are collected here. It often hosts exhibitions of bobbleheads, fantastic warriors, and tin soldiers. In the natural history museum, you can see birds and animals, inhabitants of Finnish forests. In particular, a huge elk is always of particular interest, the stuffed animal of which is placed in a separate room. There is a souvenir shop at the museum where you can buy licorice sweets and caramel made according to an old recipe. Cafe-Restaurant Valssi serves sweets and homemade pickles.      the stuffed animal of which is placed in a separate room.There is a souvenir shop at the museum where you can buy licorice sweets and caramel made according to an old recipe. Cafe-Restaurant Valssi serves sweets and homemade pickles. a scarecrow of which is placed in a separate room.There is a souvenir shop at the museum where you can buy licorice sweets and caramel made according to an old recipe. Cafe-Restaurant Valssi serves sweets and homemade pickles. We also recommend reading Castle Hochosterwitz in Austria, resort Klagenfurt Topic: Vapriikki Museum Center in Finland, Tampere Resort. |
