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Enonkoski Museum is located in downtown Enonkoski. The museum is an old
granary, the former Enonkoski municipal granary, which was built in 1880 and
moved to its current location in 1917. The museum was founded in 1973 and is
owned and run by the Enonkoski Association.
The museum’s exhibition focuses on the town’s livelihoods. Although many of
the items on display are related to agriculture, there are also products and
tools from the glass factory on Kangassaari that was part of the town from
1857 to 1903. The bottles manufactured at Kangassaari are the oldest surviving
glass objects manufactured in Finland. The Koskila Glass Factory on
Kangassaari was founded by Mikhail Tikhanov, head of a trading house in
Vyborg. The bottles produced were exported to Russia. The factory gave rise to
the current municipality of Enonkoski in backwoods of Savo.
In addition, a diorama entitled ”Fishing Grounds”, which was built by
boys from a club at the Enonkoski Upper Elementary School, is also displayed.
The diorama portrays a Savo-Karelian fishing harbour and received first prize
in the Finnish Jubilee for upper elementary schools in Oulu in 1964.
Located nearby are the Enonkoski Church, which was completed in 1886, the
museum bridge from the turn of the 20th century and a café.
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