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Turkansaari Open Air Museum

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Turkansaari Open Air Museum
Turkansaari Open Air Museum. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Turkansaari is an island in the Oulujoki river with an open-air museum in the Madekoski district in Oulu, Finland. The museum is run by the Northern Ostrobothnia museum.

Turkansaari island was a marketplace for Russian traders in the Oulujoki river. The open-air museum started out when the old church, from the year 1694, was restored on the island in 1922.

Every summer there is a demonstration of burning tar in a pit to produce tar in the traditional way.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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