Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Downstairs in the Metsähallitus (Finnish Forest and Park Service) building next to the
Arktikum, this is a highly entertaining exhibition on Finnish forestry. It has dozens of in-
teractive displays that are great for kids of all ages, who can clamber up into a logging
vehicle or play games about forest management. Multilingual touchscreens provide inter-
esting background information. Sustainable forestry is the focus, though a bear-hunting
simulation breaks the PC mould.
Rovaniemen Taidemuseo
GALLERY
(Korundi;
MAP
GOOGLE MAP
;
www.korundi.fi
;
Lapinkävijäntie 4;adult/child €8/4; 11am-6pm
Tue-Sun)
This gallery in an old brick truck depot has a wide collection of contemporary Finnish art
that it rotates in its clean white exhibition space. A concert hall here has regular events.
Lappia-talo
NOTABLE BUILDING
Rovaniemi's concert hall is one of several buildings in Rovaniemi designed by Alvar
Aalto (others include the adjacent library and town hall).
Rovaniemen Kirkko
CHURCH
Completed in 1950, this church replaced the one destroyed during WWII. The impress-
ively large fresco behind the altar depicts a Christ figure emerging from Lappish scenery.
A work of Lennart Segerstråle, it has two sides, one populated by the faithful, the other by
brawling drunkards and ravening wolves.
