There are no certain documents about the origins of Pääkkölä farm house but it is quite obvious that the building was started in 1885 by Salmo Pääkkölä, born in 1839.
At first the house was situated in the centre of the village. In 1970 it became the property of Kolari municipality as one of the few houses that were saved from the War of Lapland in 1944-45. Thus it was considered to be an appropriate museum building. So in 1980 the house was transferred to this place where there used to be a farm of Rova, founded in 1784, but it was destroyed in the war.
The house is a typical North Bothnian farmer building of the 19th century. These kinds of houses were previously very common in the region.
People earned their living by farming, raising cattle - mainly a few cows, sheep, a horse, and some reindeer.
Hunting, fur trading and fishing were important, too. At Pääkkölä house there was also a hostel.
The first exhibition was established in 1986.
This exhibition attempts to show a typical pre-war home of two families in Kolari. The collection of the museum consists of more than 1300 articles. The other buildings in the area - barns, the cattle shelter and warehouses contain mostly farm machinery, sleighs for several purposes and so on.
The ancient trail of 300 metres starts behind the cattle shelter in the southeastern corner of the museum yard, presenting historical remnants of a previous bakery-kiln, stone cairns and hearths and two pits for tar burning.
Some more information (in Finnish) about the ancient trail here.
Summarized and translated by Kari Herranen and Sandi Lammi.
Typed by Janne Kaikkonen and Katariina Granat.
Checked by Hilkka Oksala.
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