Pielinen museum- The Museum of Lieksa

Pielinen museum is a local museum of the Lieksa district and the second largest open-air museum in Finland. The museum consists of the main building and an extensive outdoor area with more than 70 buildings.

The open-air museum displays farm houses with outbuildings from three centuries, mills, forest worker's log cabins and timber floating machinery, farming implements and tools, storehouses containing vehicles, boats, fishing tackle and firefighting equipment.

The museum is located by the Lieksanjoki river, near the town centre of Lieksa.

The Open Air Museum is only open during the summer season from 15.5. to 15.9. At other times, the main museum building is open with temporary exhibitions.

Wild Wild Wood-exhibition

Science Centre Heureka's touring exhibition at Pielinen Museum

19.2.2025 - 30.9.2025

Have you ever wondered what all can wood do?

Wild Wild Wood exhibition presents the natural superpowers of wood

Wild Wild Wood exhibition presents the superpowers of wood: its many wonderful properties and uses. Wood is a carbon sink - a material for building sustainable societies. Wild Wild Wood demonstrates the versatility of wood as a material.

Photo: Anssi Vuohelainen

What is the exhibition about?

Wild Wild Wood is a multi-sensory, interactive and visually powerful exhibition that offers a wide range of insights into wood as a material. Wild Wild Wood presents the natural properties and meanings of wood, as well as its modern and traditional uses.

A selection of exhibits from the Wild Wild Wood exhibition at Heureka has been selected for Pielinen Museum, adapted to the size of the museum's exhibition hall. Wild Wild Wood exhibition is suitable for all visitors, families, students as well as adults. The texts in the exhibition are in Finnish, Swedish and English.

Photo: Anssi Vuohelainen

The exhibits on display at the Pielinen Museum are:

• What’s that tree?
• Our friend the tree
• Building a house
• Living facades
• Guess the tree
• Discover your favourite wood
• Charmed by a tree

What is your favourite tree? How well do you recognise different types of wood? And what kind of life story does a garden birch have to tell? The exhibition offers lots of fun things to do together!

In the exhibition you can, among other things:

• Learn about the characteristics and uses of different tree species
• Listen to the story of a 100-year-old birch tree
• Learn about the different types of birch trees and how to build a house
• Print your character on a large wooden surface wall
• Play a wood species guessing game with a friend

Photo: Paula Punto

Wild Wild Wood exhibition has been awarded the internationally acclaimed Red Dot Design Award in the "Brands & Communication Design 2022" category. The Red Dot Design Award is one of the largest, oldest and most prestigious design competitions in the world.

Heureka Science Centre's Wild Wild Wood exhibition partners are the Ministry of the Environment's Wood Building Programme, Federation of the Finnish Woodworking Industries, Finnish Forest Foundation, Metsä Wood, Stora Enso, UPM Plywood, Isku, Novart and Versowood.

In collaboration with

https://www.heureka.fi/en

Opening hours for spring season (19.2. - 14.5.2025)

Open Tue, Thu and Fri 10-15, Wed 12-18

Exceptions: Closed 18th of April (Good Friday) and 1st of May (May Day)

Admission fees

Opening hours for summer season  (15.5.–15.9.)

Open every day 10.00 AM to 6.00 PM. 

Exception: Closed on Midsummer Eve.

Admission fees

Heureka Science Centre SuperPUU exhibition (on the main building)

Combined and season ticket products for the Pielinen Museum and Paateri

Season ticket for Outdoor Museum

15,00 € /person, valid until the end of the year

A season ticket to Pielinen Museum entitles you to admission to the outdoor museum only 15.5-15.9 and to the indoor exhibition 16.10-31.12

Combined seasonal ticket Paateri and Pielinen museum

22,00 €/ person valid until 15.5-15.9.

A season ticket to Pielinen Museum entitles you to admission to the outdoor museum only 15.5-15.9 and to the indoor exhibition 16.10-31.12

Joint ticket to Paateri and Pielinen museum

18,00 €/ person valid for seven days from the date of purchase in Paateri and in Pielinen Museum 15.5.-15.9. 

For a joint ticket buyer, a ticket for the SuperPUU ( English: Wild Wild Wood) exhibition at the Pielinen Museum 6,50 €/person (valid 15.5.-30.9.) 

This exhibition is a special exhibition, which can be experienced until 19.2 - 30.9.2025 in the Pielinen museum main building's temporary exhibition space. The exhibition includes selected items from the Wild Wild Wood set.

Free admission

• Children under 18-year old
• Museum Card
• ICOM card
• Group leaders and bus drivers (Groups over 10 persons)
• wedding, concert and church visitors
• First Wednesday in June (4.6.2025)
• Last Wednesday in August (27.8.2025)
• International Museum Day (18.5.2025) https://icomfinland.fi/en/international-museum-day/

Guided tours

• Daily guided tours during summer opening hours at 10.30, 13.00 and 16.00. Guided tours cost 3 €/person.
• Group guided tours by museum staff €40/hour during museum opening hours.
• Group guided tours by museum staff €50/hour outside museum opening hours.
• Guided tours of the Lieksan Matkailuoppaat ry charge according to their own price list. Group tours must be booked in advance. More information on their website Lieksan Matkailuoppaat ry. You can also enquire about guided tours by contacting the museum museo@lieksa.fi / +35840 1044 151

Guided tours in other languages must be reserved in advance. Contact info: museo@lieksa.fi

Pielinen Museum ready to welcome guests - SuperPUU (English: Wild Wild Wood) exhibition to celebrate the opening of the museum's new main building
 

The new main building of the Pielinen Museum has been completed and will open to the public on 19 February 2025 at 12 noon.The first exhibition in the new museum premises will be the SuperPuu visiting exhibition from the Heureka Science Centre.The SuperPUU exhibition will tell about the different properties and versatile uses of wood, which also fits in well with our museum's theme of wood construction, says Museum Director Laura Mulari. SuperPUU has been adapted to the size of the museum's exhibition hall and will be on display until 30 September 2025.

The Pielinen Museum will be inaugurated by Minister of Climate and the Environment Sari Multala on 18th of February.

The first event for children after the opening of the museum will be the Children's Snow Day on 5 March 2025 from 11 am. to 2 pm. The Snow Day is an event organised by the museum, the youth services of Lieksa, the library of Lieksa, the Lieksa City Centre Association, MTK-Lieksa (local sub-association of The Central Union of Agricultural Producers and Forest Owners), the 4H Association and Siun Sote (Wellbeing services county of North Karelia) during the school skiing holiday week.

More services for museum visitors and other tourists

A museum shop will be opened in the main building and a museum café will be opened in the summer. The museum's exhibition concept will also be revamped, with new facilities allowing for a wider variety of temporary exhibitions. The museum's exhibition concept will also be renewed, with new spaces allowing for more varied temporary exhibitions.The Tourist Information Office of the City of Lieksa will also move to the Pielinen Museum on 1 March. - The move of the Tourist Information Office to the museum will allow the city to serve tourists with wider opening hours than before. Service hours will continue on weekdays, but the possibility to consult during summer weekends in particular will improve the service for tourists, explains museum director Mulari.

28.10.2024:

The new main building of the Pielinen Museum is almost finished

Our aim is to open the new main building to the public in February 2025. The new main building will have a café and a museum shop. The tourist information office of the city of Lieksa is also planned to be moved to the museum.

Planning for next year's exhibitions and events is currently underway. Next year, the museum will host a nature-themed art exhibition by the Lieksa-based artist Tuuli Meriläinen. In addition, there will be an exhibition on the carbon and wood cycle, which will be implemented as a learning environment together with Ubium Oy. For both exhibitions, Pielinen Museum has received a grant from The Finnish Heritage Agency.
At the meeting of the City of Lieksa Welfare Committee on 22 October 2024, it was proposed to purchase the Heureka Super Wood exhibition as the first temporary exhibition. The exhibition as a whole will be adapted to the size of the museum. The exhibition will be confirmed in December at the Lieksa City Council meeting.

The new museum building was designed by architect Kimmo Heikkilä of Jorma Paloranta Architectural Office. The construction project cost around EUR 2 million and construction work started in December 2023. The Ministry of Education and Culture in Finland has granted a state investment grant of EUR 600 000 for the project.

YLE's article online (in Finnish)
https://yle.fi/a/74-20119858

Link to the YLE television news, where the Pielinen Museum is mentioned in paragraph 3.14 (In Finnish)
https://areena.yle.fi/1-67525222

29.10.2024

The new main building of the Pielinen Museum

Photos by: Henna Tuomiranta (Pielinen museum)

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Contact:
Pielisen museo
Pappilantie 2
FI-81720 Lieksa, Finland
tel. +358 40 1044 151
email: museo@lieksa.fi

Paateri, the home and studio of sculptress Eva Ryynänen, is another site of the museum and located about 27 km from the town centre of Lieksa. More information about Paateri here.