Kvarken Boat Museum

Description
One of the largest utility boat museums in Fenno-Scandia. All of the 76 Ostrobotnian boats are made of wood. There are seal hunting and fishing boats, skiffs, punts, rowing-boats and motor boats. The boat for catching Baltic herring, built in 1860, is a rarity. Exhibitions of boat-building, seal hunting in the Gulf of Bothnia, and fishing of Baltic herring. Fiherman´s cottage. Temporary exhibitions in the summer.

Visiting address: Åminnevägen 433, 66100 Malax
Postal address: Åminnevägen 433, 66100 Malax

Tel./museum: (06) 365 1933
Tel./office: (06) 365 1123

Website
museum.malax.fi/

E-mail
goran.stromforspp.inet.fi

Open
Mon: -
Tue: 13:00-18:00
Wed: 13:00-18:00
Thu: 13:00-18:00
Fri: 13:00-18:00
Sat: 13:00-18:00
Sun: 13:00-18:00

Open during 5 weeks after Midsummer every day (except Mondays) 13-18.

Entrance fee
2/1/0 €

Type of the museum

Special Museum

Facilities

Parking

Sales point

Accessibility [the criteria]

Disabled parking

Restricted accessibility: Fri passage till 8 utställningsbyggnader (av 12). Ramper byggda till utställningshallarna (-byggnaderna)

Tactile objects