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Häme Castle

Häme Castle houses permanent as well as temporary exhibitions. Terra Tavestorum (The Land of the Häme People) is a permanent exhibition which features archaeological artefacts found during more than 100 years of research carried out in Häme, and shows the prehistory of the area.

Other permanent exhibitions are ‘The History of Brick’, ‘The Treasure of Vaaraslahti in Pielavesi’, ‘Medieval Church Art’ and ‘The Restoration of the Castle’.

Temporary exhibitions

Finlandisation in Finland

Häme Castle 30 April 2010 – 17 October 2010

The exhibition “Finlandisation in Finland” takes visitors on a trip to the times of the president Urho Kaleva Kekkonen. The closest neighbour was the Soviet Union and the Finnish ice Hockey team was never successful.

Term ‘finlandisation’ was launched in 1948 when The Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance Treaty between Finland and the Soviet Union was signed. Finlandisation is understood as a political, economic and cultural phenomenon during the Cold War. The exhibition shows finlandisation through films, photographs and artefacts with a sense of humour.

For more information about the exhibition please contact:

Häme Castle
project co-ordinator Anne Parikka

Tel: +358 50 596 3556 or anne.parikka@nba.fi

Photo: The Finns took Western consumables to the

Soviet Union. The suitcase also contains a guide

book to Leningrad and an appendix to a travel

insurance policy,which has instructions for travellers.

Timeless Treasure

Häme Castle 15 May 2009 – 10 October 2010

Timeless Treasure is a silver exhibition produced by Häme Castle and Turku Castle in cooperation with Skokloster Castle and The Hallwyl Museum, Sweden, Koldinghus Castle, Denmark, and Kultakeskus from Hämeenlinna. The exhibition Timeless Treasure is one of the largest silver exhibitions in Finland.

The exhibition features silverware from the collections of The Museum Centre of Turku, mainly from the 18^th and 19^th centuries, silverware from the collections of Skokloster Castle and The Hallwyl Museum from the 17^th and 18^th centuries and modern silverware from Koldinghus Castle.

The aim of the exhibition is to highlight the long Finnish, Swedish and Danish silversmith tradition, and to offer an overview of the expertise of Nordic silversmiths.

Kultakeskus, the local silverware manufacturer, contributes pieces by academic Tapio Wirkkala to the exhibition.

For more information about the exhibition please contact:

Häme Castle
project co-ordinator Anne Parikka

Tel: +358 50 596 3556

Ajaton Aarre -hopeanäyttely Hämeen linnassa 15.5.2009-30.9.2010
Kuva: Museovirasto (2009)