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Carelicum - The North Karelian Museum Joensuu. Petrozavodsk 2013. The North Karelian Museum. The regional museum of cultural history Founded in 1917 Owner: City of Joensuu Recording and presenting culture of North Karelia + Ladoga Karelia in finnish times.
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Carelicum - The North Karelian MuseumJoensuu Petrozavodsk 2013
The North Karelian Museum • The regional museum of cultural history • Founded in 1917 • Owner: City of Joensuu • Recording and presenting culture of North Karelia + Ladoga Karelia in finnish times
The aim of the North Karelian Museum • collect, document and preserve cultural materials • arrange exhibitions • research the collections • document the cultural and built environment
Temporary ehbitions • Puzzles 14.2. – 21.4. 2013 • Birds 15.5. – 15.9. / 22.9. 2013 • Childhood 10.10. 2013 – 12.1. 2014 Spring 2014:Russian theme
Carelicum, Koskikatu 5 • The North Karelian Regional Museum is located in the centre of the Joensuu city in the culture and tourist centre Carelicum. • Building is ex Saving Bank in Joensuu
Bunker Museum, Virrantaus 7 Salpa Line Suomen Salpa
Salpa Line • The Salpa Defence Line extending for a total of 1200 kilometres • The line was built in 1940–1941 and completed in 1944, at the end of the Continuation War
Bunker Museum Open 1995 Vetaraanipuisto (War veteran park) The Salpa Line has always been considered as one of the strongest fortified defence lines built during the Second World War
Experts in museum • Seven museum professions: • Conservator • Curator: ehxibitions, regional work • Director of collections • With Joensuu Art Museum: common museum direector, producer, curator (pedagogical work) • three other stuff
Visitors • Target groups: families, tourists, everybody • 2012: 26 318 • 2011: 32 108 • 2010: 14 853 (renovation, museon was closed four and half months) • 2009: 19 226
Collections: 23 600 objects old wooden spoon election advertisement, 2005 (button)
Special collections The collections of Ladoga Karelia: over 2,000 objects
Some treasures from Karelia silver brooch kantele instrument
175 300 photos in collection Typical Karelian house in the Joensuu city hall after fire, 1966 beginning of the 20th century
Collections: war history • In collections: weapons, photos, uniforms from 19th and 20th centuries, etc
War history • War history is presented in exhibitions in Carelicum and in Bunker Museum • Activ local researhers (books, researhes) • a plenty of local volunteers in national defense associaties (own organisations, exhibitions) • Museum makes cooperation with researhers and volunteers
Collections: architecture • Literature • Photos of buildings • Inventory material of local buildings • Museo objects of Lutheran churches and other buildings • Not so much cooperation with locals (musem does not have a curator of building research anymore)
Collections: ethnography • Different kind of object of peasant culture: costumes, tools, musical instruments, • Photos • Literature • Many loans from photo archives
Collections: Stone & mining • Somephotos, objects • Suomen Kivitutkimus Säätiö in Juuka (Suomen Kivikeskus) : the permanentexhibition of stones • Outokumpu Mining Museum (Outokummun kaivosmuseo) • MöhköIronworks (Möhkön ruukkimuseo)
North Karelian Museum • Nominated for European Museum of the Year 2013 Award (28/40 museums) • Winners will be announced in May in Tongeren, Belgium
Kiitos! • www.pohjoiskarjalanmuseo.fi • bunkkerimuseo.jns.fi