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The Finnish Agricultural Museum Sarka brings the versatile history of farming to you through moving image, sound, light, scale models and, of course, through genuine objects.
As an introduction to its exhibition, the Museum has an impressive scale model, which takes you through the development of the imaginary village of Sarkajoki from the Bronze Age up till the year 2004. This model is full of elaborate details. By pressing the buttons, you can hear sounds bringing you back to the period in question and helping you imagine what life was like in the main village of a rural parish for example towards the end of the 19th century.
The imaginary village of Sarkajoki
The basic exhibition builds on farm work associated with each season. You will learn about such as work carried out in the woods in winter, the history of family estates, field work, cattle husbandry and how the crops in the old days were threshed in the drying barn. The basic collection is complemented by changing exhibitions.
Another dimension of the exhibition is time. It covers two main periods: the time before the post-war mechanisation of farming and the period after that until 2004.
A room for traditional crafts
The exhibition houses a room for traditional crafts, a barn, a drying barn, a mill and a smoke sauna, in which you can sense the atmosphere of the olden times and listen to true stories.
An old mill
With Pellikki, an artificial cow, you can try milking by machine and see how fodder travels through her digestive system. The cowshed model shows you how cattle husbandry has developed over the years.
Pellikki, an artificial cow, and the cowshed model
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