Kierikkikeskus/Kierikki Stone Age Centre
| Kierikki Stone Age Centre is the biggest Stone Age Centre in Finland. It is
located 55 kilometres NE from Oulu, the biggest city in Northern Finland.
All services are both in English and Finish.
Kierikki is both a museum and a touristic centre and was opened in September
2001. It has an exhibition building which is the largest modern log building
in Finland. Besides the main building there are a hotel complex and a
prehistoric area of two square kilometres with reconstructions. There you
will find a Neolithic site with over 40 dwelling remains (large depressions
on the ground) and a reconstructed Stone Age village of several houses
includking a Neolithic row house and also a trap line path with historical
traps. In the Stone Age Village you can get program services based on
Prehistory.
In the Kierikki area five kilometres both to east and West from the museum
there are several famous Neolithic sites with dwelling remains. Nineteen of
them have been excavated since 1993 and currently a North American research
team is studying the area.
There are visitor conference, restaurant and hotel services available, taken
care of by a Dutch enterprise. Kierikki Stone Age Centre has experience with
international EU-projects and received several architectural awards and both
Europa Nostra and European Museum Forum awards. |
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Leena Lehtinen MA
Description:
Leena Lehtinen MA (born 1957) is an archaeologist who has studied in Turku
university, Stockholm university and has just started her Ph.D. studies at
Helsinki university. Her special fields are landscape history (historical
geography) and the popularisation of archaeology. She has been working on
excavations in several European countries in the 1970s and 80s and as county
archaeologist in Southern Savo (Lake Saimaa region, Finland) in the 1980s
and 90s. From June 2000 she has been working as director of Kierikki Stone
Age Centre. Her hobby is travelling, especially after Rock Art, around the
world. |
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