876 Shades of Darkness

The exhibition ‘Death Riding under the Full Moon’ in the Great Guard Room at Turku Castle showcases death as story-like as well as its inequalities and deviations.

Death, the dead and ghosts are diversely represented in Finnish folk tradition. Folk tales tell of living that are forced to ride with the dead, children murdered before they were christened, of graveyard people and notorious murderers.

It is said that we all are equal in the eyes of death – but how do the graves of a 17th century rich official from Turku and a poor servant girl differ from each other? On the one hand, the exhibition handles ‘deviating death’ through men lost in war and, on the other hand, through victims of the executioner. It also showcases results that researchers have gained from human remains from the archaeological excavations of the so-called ‘Julin’s plot’ in Turku.

Tickets:
€8/adults
€4.50/children (7–17 yrs), students, senior citizens, unemployed, conscripts
Children under 7 have free admission to the museum
€17.50/family ticket (2 adults and 2–4 children)

Open: Summer season: 3 May–18 Sep 2011, Tues–Sun 10 am–6 pm. Winter season: 20 Sep–30 Dec 2011, Tues, Thurs–Sun 10 am–6pm; Wed 12 noon–8 pm

Turku Castle and Historical Museum
Linnankatu 80, Turku.
Tel. +358 2 262 0300
www.museumcentreturku.fi

Kirsi Haapamäki.