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A Year of Changes at Keuruu Museum: 2026

The Keuruu Museum will be transferred from the Keuruu Museum Foundation to the town’s administration with effect from 1 January 2026. The parties have entered into an agreement regarding the transfer of operations.

The museum will also be physically relocating from Kamana to the eCenter premises in Keuruu town centre from 1 February 2026. Work has begun on adapting the premises to the museum’s requirements, and this will be completed during spring 2026. The Keuruu Museum website will move to www.keuruu.fi-sivustolle on 1 January 2026, under the Leisure and Tourism section. Henna Tuomiranta will continue as museum director and Helena Kukkamo as museum curator. The museum will provide further information about its activities once the move has been completed and they have settled in.

Changed opening hours for January

There have been changes to our opening hours with effect from 9 January 2026.

The museum is open in January:

Wed–Fri 12 noon–4 pm

Sat 10 Jan and 31 Jan, 11am–3pm

We will be closed from 31 January 2026 until further notice and will reopen our exhibition space in the summer.

The museum will be closed for the Christmas break from 19 December 2025 to 6 January 2026

We will next be open on Wednesday 7 January 2026, with special opening hours from 12.30 pm to 4.00 pm.

Jenni Tieaho’s ‘Myrrys’ exhibition will continue at our museum throughout January – you’re very welcome to come and see the exhibition again this month!

Book launch: Emanuele Arteniesi: On the Path of the Old Church – The history of the built cultural environment and its people in the Keuruu parish during the transition to mode isation

The event will be opened and introduced via video link by Dr Teppo Ylitalo, Executive Director of the Finnish Local Heritage Federation. Emanuele Arteniesi will be interviewed by Dr Pirita Frigren of the Jyväskylä Centre for Open Knowledge, Cultural and Natural Heritage Services, and Dr Laura-Kristiina Moilanen, Cultural Producer. Moilanen was responsible for editing and proofreading the work in its final stages; Ylitalo, Frigren and Moilanen were all involved in editing it during their respective tenures as directors of the Keuruu Museum.

Drawing on a wide range of source material, *On the Road to the Old Church* traces the history of the landscape, people and architectural heritage of the area around Keuruu’s old church over several centuries. It explores both the lives of local people and the changes the area has undergone in Finland and Keuruu as society mode ised from the 19th century onwards. For this work, Arteniesi has conducted interviews and researched documents relating to buildings, the landscape, local history and individuals in various archives. The book was inspired by an exhibition of the same name and the enthusiastic visitor feedback it received at the Keuruu Museum in 2022.

The book can be purchased at the launch event at the Keuruu Museum, and after the event from the museum shop until 19 December during the museum’s opening hours. KirjaKeuruu will sell the book from 2 January 2026 at its Keuruu shop and online store.

The book was published in print by Printek in Keuruu in 2025. ISBN 978-952-68919-4-1

Publisher: Keuruu Museum Foundation

Layout and design: Jaana Pasanen/Printek

A warm welcome! Admission is free.

For further information about the book and interview requests, please contact Emanuele Arteniesi, the book’s author, at emanuele.arteniesi@gmail.com

For further information about the launch event, please contact Henna Tuomiranta, Director of Keuruu Museum, henna.tuomiranta@keuruu.fi

The Keuruu Museum’s collections and information services will be closed from 15 December 2025 until further notice

Services will be reinstated where possible during autumn 2026. Further information: henna.tuomiranta@keuruu.fi

The Local History Archive will not be accepting donations from 15 December 2025 until further notice/until autumn 2026. Advice and information services will continue to be available as usual. For further information: hanne.rokkonen@keuruu.fi

New Director of Keuruu Museum from 20 October 2025

Henna Tuomiranta, the new director of Keuruu Museum, took up her post on 20 October 2025.

Tuomiranta holds a Master of Arts degree from the ‘Cultures and Communities in a Changing World’ programme, which combines ethnology, anthropology and cultural policy, as well as a Master of Arts degree from the Master’s Programme in Cultural Environment Studies, specialising in museology.

Jou alist Outi Kättö wrote an article for the Suur-Keuruu newspaper on 31 October 2025. The article can be read here (paywall).

Museum Director’s contact details: henna.tuomiranta@keuruu.fi, tel. 040 96 555 67

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