Asukaslehti 2/2022: A solid foundation is being built for the wilderness and nature culture museum

The design of the Wilderness and Nature Culture Museum has progressed as planned during the fall.

The four employees of the project's starting line-up are now assembled, and the work has begun.

- At the moment, our task is to plan the concept of the museum and what kind of collection will be formed at the museum. After that, we will build a service concept for the museum, on the basis of which we will be able to plan the spatial changes to be made to the town hall, project manager Pia Paukku says.

The planning phase takes a couple of years. After that, we can do more visible work, for example changes to the premises.

We want to make the new museum truly new.

- Community and participation are important, the museum must be a multi-purpose platform for working together, Paukku reflects.

He raises, for example, the Helsinki Central Library's Ood.

- For example, we are thinking about which services the museum could provide a solution to in the area. Not that we produce the service ourselves, but we are an enabler.

All of this is considered in the conceptualization.

- Reflection is done together with people from Imatra and South Karelia, companies and other actors, designer Mona Taipale promise.

Planning should be done carefully

The wilderness and nature culture museum is being built into a national museum of responsibility. There are already 17 such museums in Finland.

The mission of the national museum of responsibility is to promote and guide museum activities in its own specialty and to take care of mutual cooperation between museums in its own field.

- The role is significant, and that's why the groundwork must now be done especially carefully, Paukku states. So eager museum visitors still have to wait for the doors to open.

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