Working-Class Home Museum in Niitynpää

In Vaajakoski, a small red cottage peeks out at the edge of a forest. As you go past it, perhaps you wonder what that small red-ochre painted log building was in the past. These days it is a working-class home museum, but initially it was a croft. Later, the house was inhabited by, among others, the Rautiainen family: father, mother, and seven children. During the summer, you can immerse yourself in the life that was lived there and listen to stories hidden inside the small log building. The house is no longer inhabited, but what is the bootjack then?

Free entrance.

- Croft was built in the 19th century.

- The SOK Corporation bought the building in 1919.

- Renovated from the outside in accordance with its appearance in the 1920s.

- Furnished to represent life in the 1930s.

Open in summer 2025: On Thursdays 26.6.-7.8. at 1 pm - 4 pm