Salpa Line Museum

The Salpa Line Museum (Finnish: Salpalinja-museo, Russian: Музей линии "Салпа") was established and opened in 1987 by the Miehikkälä municipality and World War II veteran organisations. It is the first museum established belonging to the museums of Miehikkälä. The other museum is Miehikkälän kotiseutumuseo, the Miehikkala local arts-and-crafts museum, which was established in 1989 and is in the same building as the Engineers Museum.[3]

Salpalinja-museo
The Salpa Line Museum
Музей линии "Салпа"
Established1987
LocationSäästöpirtintie 70, FI-49700 MIEHIKKÄLÄ, Finland
60°39.043′N 27°41.566′E[1]
Typea military historical museum related the engineer corps of Finland and the Continuation War.
Visitors5,000 annually
DirectorAnu Haapala, director of the museums of the Miehikkala municipality (Miehikkälän museot)
Websitehttp://www.salpakeskus.fi/index.php?l=1&path=1,0,0
languages of correspondence: English and Finnish
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The Salpa Line Museum is the core of the Salpa Centre. It is both the tourist information centre of the Salpa Line Museum, the Engineer Museum and the Bunker Museum and the Salpa Line Museum centre itself.

The area around was built as a defence line and the defence centre of an infantry company in 1940-1944. It was never used for defence as the front line never reached the area due to the truce of 5 September 1944 and the Moscow Armistice of 19 September 1944.

Some of the preserved Salpa Line areas are classified by Finland's National Board of Antiquities [4] to the Built-up cultural environments of national importance1 (Valtakunnallisesti merkittävät rakennetut kulttuuriympäristöt – Byggda kulturmiljöer av riksintresse1). The territory of the Salpa Line Museum belongs to the one of the four such areas in Miehikkälä: Kylmälä,[5] Miehikkälä municipal cente,[6] Muurula [7] and Myllylampi.[8]

Exhibits

Due to the nature of the museum, most collections are located outside in the woods. Some bunkers from World War II remain. Outside the museum centre building, there are several anti-tank guns.

Object #Military useWGS 84Description
321anti-tank dugout, machine gun shooting and accommodation for a half infantry platoon, for 20 soldiers
322accommodation dugout for a platoon, for 40 soldiers economy model
385artillery observation dugout accommodation for 20 soldiers 
327accommodation dugout for 20 soldiers 
326machine gun dugout and accommodation for 20 soldiers
360anti-tank gun position with a 7.5 cm Panzerabwehrkanone 40[9] an open restored 75 mm anti-tank gun nest

Open hours
MonthWeekdayHours
MayWed Thu Fri Sat Sun10-18
JuneMon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun10-18
JulyMon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun10-18
AugustMon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun10-18
SeptemberWed Thu Fri Sat Sun10-18 [11]

|October || Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun || 10-16

References
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  8. "RKY ι Museovirasto". www.rky.fi. Archived from the original on 2014-03-19.
  9. "Salpalinja | Kaakko135°". Archived from the original on 2012-08-04. Retrieved 2012-04-03.
  10. http://tuomovirtanen.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Linnat+ja+linnoitukset/salpalinja-museo+miehikk%E4l%E4+tv20090523_006.jpg/web
  11. "Miehikkälän Kunta". Archived from the original on 2012-02-17. Retrieved 2012-04-03.
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