The Finnish Smoke Sauna Exhibition has opened at the Kuralan Kylämäki Village

The exhibition takes us through the evolution of sauna in the past two thousand years.

An exhibition on the history of the Finnish smoke sauna has opened at the info centre of the Kuralan Kylämäki Village. The Kylämäki Village of Living History is well suited for the exhibition because of the two remaining – and functional – old saunas of the village.

The Finnish smoke sauna is most likely an eastern invention; the Stone Age sauna pit slowly devel-oped into the Iron Age into the aboveground log-built smoke sauna. People lived, bathed and threshed crops in these saunas. The smoke sauna was introduced to the Finnish culture about two thousand years ago. As Finland was slowly inhabited by the settlers from the area of modern Estonia, sauna culture spread slowly across the country as well. The exhibition showcases the history and the various forms of use of our rural sauna both in photos and in texts.

The exhibition is open until 18 September 2011.

Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm. Closed on Mondays.

Tickets: Adults 4.50 € / Children 3 € / Family ticket 9.50 € / the family year card to Kuralan Kylämäki Village 20 €