Founded in the late 1950s, the Konnevesi Local Heritage Museum preserves and presents the local history and traditions of the region. Since 1958, twelve log buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries have been relocated to the museum grounds, forming an authentic rural courtyard. The first to arrive was the Tuomisto smoke cabin from Hytölä, which remains the heart of the museum.

Around it stand a variety of traditional buildings: granaries, a cowshed, a threshing barn, a smithy, a cooking hut, a smoke sauna, a hay barn, and a beautifully restored windmill, renovated in 2020. The area also includes a swing, a memorial pine, storage buildings and sheds added in the 1980s. The structures have been carefully maintained over the decades, and the exhibition hall was expanded in the early 2000s.

The Konnevesi Museum is much more than a collection of old buildings – it’s a living part of local heritage. The interactive AR “Lehmipolku” (Cow Trail) brings history to life through modern technology. Using a smartphone, visitors can explore an augmented reality adventure featuring traditional cattle culture, calls and songs, and meet historical figures who share stories from the past.

The museum grounds also feature a heritage garden with traditional plants, herbs and a folk healer’s “pill bed”, showing how people once lived in close connection with nature.

The Konnevesi Local Heritage Museum is where history lives on — through the smoke of the old cabin, the turning of the windmill and the enduring stories of life by the water and forest.

In English - Konneveden museo