hiidenkonttibeta

Toured National Museum of Finland on Sunday. A lot of rocks in the first section (what a surprise, since it was the Stone Age section). In the beginning there were some which the info cards in the cabinets called man-made tools, but I would have hard time figuring out if it’s a stone-age tool for hitting a deer in the head or just some random rock. In the end of the Stone Age the tools were such that I’d never be able to make one using the same tools as the ancestors – probably another stone, and a piece of bone if you were lucky.

There’s Gallen-Kallela’s paintings of scenes from Kalevala in the ceiling of the museum:

The first one is obviously Väinämöinen & the Boys messing with pissed-off Louhi. The second one is Ilmarinen “kyntämässä kyistä peltoa”.

One of the funniest things in the museum was this clock, the style that was made in Pohjanmaa at certain time: