Before Machines
Finnish Museum of Agriculture Sarka, Loimaa
- 2.3.2019–
With its large number of exhibits, it will display the farm work and related tools and implements of the era before agricultural machinery. In the age before machines, grain was sown by hand from baskets and bushels and human hands would cut the ripened grain with sickles and bind it in sheaves, make thread and yard from wool and flax with spindles, and use the axes that cleared slash-and-burn plots and felled timber for building. Draught animals, horses and oxen, helped in the heavy work in the fields. There was plenty of work to do and everyone was needed, from children to the elderly.
This exhibition is based on the collections of the former Museum of Agriculture of the University of Helsinki at Viikki in Helsinki. The oldest items among the over 600 exhibits date from the 18th century. Tools, implements, vessels, containers and other objects introduce visitors to the stages of slash-and-burn and arable farming from ploughing to harvesting. Along with work in the fields, the exhibition presents animal husbandry, work in the farmhouse and the farmyard and the auxiliary livelihoods of hunting, fishing, forestry and various handicrafts.
Museum contact details
Finnish Museum of Agriculture Sarka
Vanhankirkontie 383, 32200 Loimaa
02 763 7700
Yhteydet julkisilla
Näytä reitti museolle Matkahuollon reittioppaassa
Katso reitti Matkahuollon reittioppaassa
Päämäärä:
Finnish Museum of Agriculture Sarka, Vanhankirkontie 383, 32200 Loimaa
Lähtöpiste:
Admission fees
12/8/0 €
Payment methods
Käteinen, pankkikortit ja yleisimmät luottokortit sekä Smartum, Edenred, ePassi ja Tyky+.
Opening hours
Mon | Closed |
Tue | 10:00-17:00 |
Wed | 10:00-17:00 |
Thu | 10:00-17:00 |
Fri | 10:00-17:00 |
Sat | 10:00-17:00 |
Sun | 10:00-17:00 |
1.4.–30.6. every day 10 am – 5 pm, 1.–31.7 every day 10 am – 6 pm, 1.8.–30.9. every day 10 am – 5 pm,1.10.–31.3. Tuesday – Sunday 10 am – 5 pm
Accessibility [the criteria]
- Accessible toilet
- Guided tours for special groups by request
- Restricted accessibility: Museon päärakennus näyttely- ja kokoustiloineen sekä Ennen koneita -näyttelyn rakennus kokoustiloineen ovat esteettömiä. Tarjoamme asiakkaidemme käyttöön rollaattorin ja pyörätuolin.
- Seating inside the exhibition
- Wheelchair on loan