Turkansaari Open Air Museum
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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.