Salpa Line Museum
The Salpa Line Museum (in Finnish: Salpalinja-museo in Russian: Музей линии "Салпа") was established and opened in 1987 by the Miehikkälä municipality and the Second World War veteran organisations. It is the first museum established belonging to the museums of Miehikkälä. The other museum is Miehikkälän kotiseutumuseo, the Miehikkala local arts-and-crafts museum, which was established in 1989 and is in the same building as the Engineers Museum.[3]
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| Established | 1987 |
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| Location | Säästöpirtintie 70, FI-49700 MIEHIKKÄLÄ, Finland 60°39.043′N 27°41.566′E[1] |
| Type | a military historical museum related the engineer corps of Finland and the Continuation War. |
| Visitors | 5 000 annually |
| Director | Anu Haapala, director of the museums of the Miehikkala municipality (Miehikkälän museot) |
| Website | http://www.salpakeskus.fi/index.php?l=1&path=1,0,0 languages of correspondence: English and Finnish eila.manninen (a) miehikkala.fi |
The Salpa Line Museum is the core of the Salpa Centre. It is both the tourist information centre of the Salpa Line Museum, the Engineer Museum and the Bunker Museum and the Salpa Line Museum centre itself.
The area around was built as a defence line and the defence centre of an infantry company in 1940-1944. It was never used for defence as the front line never reached the area due to the truce of 5 September 1944 and the Moscow Armistice of 19 September 1944.
Some of the preserved Salpa Line areas are classified by Finland's National Board of Antiquities [4] to the Built-up cultural environments of national importance1 (Valtakunnallisesti merkittävät rakennetut kulttuuriympäristöt – Byggda kulturmiljöer av riksintresse1). The territory of the Salpa Line Museum belongs to the one of the four such areas in Miehikkälä: Kylmälä,[5] Miehikkälä municipal cente,[6] Muurula [7] and Myllylampi.[8]
Exhibits
Due to the nature of the museum most of the collections are outside in the woods. There are some of the bunkers left. Outside the museum centre building there are anti-tank guns.
| Object # | Military use | WGS 84 | Description |
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| 321 | anti-tank dugout, machine gun shooting and accommodation for a half infantry platoon, for 20 soldiers | ||
| 322 | accommodation dugout for a platoon, for 40 soldiers | economy model | |
| 385 | artillery observation dugout accommodation for 20 soldiers | ||
| 327 | accommodation dugout for 20 soldiers | ||
| 326 | machine gun dugout and accommodation for 20 soldiers | ||
| 360 | anti-tank gun position with a 7.5 cm Panzerabwehrkanone 40[9] | an open restored 75 mm anti-tank gun nest | |
Gallery
- A machine gun bunker in the Salpa Line Museum
7.5 cm Panzerabwehrkanone 40 in the Salpa Line Museum #360 [10]
Open hours
| Month | Weekday | Hours |
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| May | Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun | 10-18 |
| June | Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun | 10-18 |
| July | Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun | 10-18 |
| August | Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun | 10-18 |
| September | Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun | 10-18 [11] |
References
- http://maps.navici.com/112/?lang=en
- http://maps.navici.com/112/?lang=en
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-02-17. Retrieved 2012-04-03.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- http://www.nba.fi/en/index
- http://www.rky.fi/read/asp/r_kohde_kartta.aspx?KOHDE_ID=2021&OBJECTID=24716
- http://www.rky.fi/read/asp/r_kohde_kartta.aspx?KOHDE_ID=2021&OBJECTID=25112
- http://www.rky.fi/read/asp/r_kohde_kartta.aspx?KOHDE_ID=2021&OBJECTID=25113
- http://www.rky.fi/read/asp/r_kohde_kartta.aspx?KOHDE_ID=2021&OBJECTID=24705
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-08-04. Retrieved 2012-04-03.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- http://tuomovirtanen.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Linnat+ja+linnoitukset/salpalinja-museo+miehikk%E4l%E4+tv20090523_006.jpg/web
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-02-17. Retrieved 2012-04-03.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
