Our party getting to know the yard of Niemelä croft. We arrived to visit Seurasaari, which is located in our capital, Helsinki, on August 11, 2021. Seurasaari is a museum island on the western edge of Helsinki. An open-air museum has been operating on the island since 1909, where old wooden buildings from all over …
Tour around Karelia On the twelfth day of June, at seven in the morning, we arrived with Aki in the courtyard of Pikisaari School, where we started a slightly unusual “class trip” to Karelia, Russia. What made the trip unusual was the fact that no teachers or other staff left the school with us. But …
Laser scanning in Kizhi Island On 2nd of July we left Pikisaari. Half the day we drove towards the Russian border. From Värtsilä we continued across the border and in the evening we arrived in Petrozavodsk. In the evening we independently got familiar with the city. We stayed at the hotel near the place where …
In June at Kizhi In April, with the help of Karelia CBC’s “Ethno-architecture of Fennoscandia in the XXI Century” project, we went on a photography tour to Russia. On the second day of June, it was time for another trip. We met again on Sunday morning at Pikisaari, Oulu and headed for Petrozavodsk. The ride …
Journey to kizhi island In February, the Karelia CBC project “Ethno-architecture of Fennoscandia in the 21st Century” started, with OSAO as a partner. The project includes restoration student study trips to Kizhi Island and Kurgenitsy Village in Russia, and the three media students were offered the opportunity to join in to document their trips. So …