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Poikilo - Museums
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14 reviews
#3 of 16 Shopping in Kouvola
Speciality & Gift Shops • Speciality Museums
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11:00 - 18:00
Tuesday
11:00 - 18:00
Wednesday
11:00 - 18:00
Thursday
11:00 - 18:00
Friday
11:00 - 18:00
Saturday
12:00 - 17:00
Sunday
12:00 - 17:00
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Kouvola Museum Quarter from 1920s tells about Kouvola history as a railroad village. You can visit old wooden houses and find a nice cafe with art exhibitions, small workshops and shops with handmade local handcraft. At Kouvola Museum Quarter there is arranged many happenings like The Night of The Arts, An Old Time Market Place in september, Christmas happening, and The Arts & Skills -day.
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Johanna K
11 contributions
Basic museum
Jun 2023 • Couples
Art museum and City museum at the same building. The atmosphere in art museum was nice. The entrance to the City museum was through a office building, not very exciting. A small museum shop.
Written 3 June 2023
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Mikael F
Helsinki, Finland30,581 contributions
Art and history under the same roof
Jun 2020
The Poikilo Museums comprise the Kouvola Art Museum and the Kouvola City Museum in the Kouvola House. The exhibitions are changing. It is an interesting combination of art and history.

The Art Museum focuses on contemporary Finnish art. On our visit, there was an exhibition called 'On behalf of nature'. It consisted of works from the Heino Art Foundation collection which is one of Finland’s foremost collections of contemporary art.

The City Museum shows exhibitions related to the history of Kouvola. On our visit, there was an interesting exhibition called 'Manor Houses of Kouvola'. The exhibition showed what the past life was in Kouvola's manor houses.
Written 16 June 2020
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Leif B
Pietarsaari, Finland2,782 contributions
A modest museum
Nov 2019
I had little time left before my train was leaving, so I went to Poikolo Museot. The museum is rather modest, they have two small nice exhibitions, but there were rather few visitors. The museum is housed at the Kouvolatalo, which is a rather big house with one other museums and a concert hall.
Written 2 December 2019
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mievaan
Espoo, Finland72 contributions
Art museum in the middle of no where
Jan 2018
Beautiful city, ugly centrum. Strength of Kouvola is surrounding in a beautiful nature. Poikilo unfortunately tries to be world class art museum, which is not true. Focusing on local extraordinary would be much more interesting. Also local things (art) at the moment is just a lousy copy of international art. Sorry.
Written 13 December 2018
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Reeta A
Kouvola, Finland12 contributions
Interesting exhibitions often with local point of view
Jun 2018 • Family
There are actually two different museums, an art museum with exhibitions of all styles of art. Often they offer interesting viewpoints to local artists, but also some international artists as well.
Other museum showcases different aspects of history and life of the area. Very playful ideas in showcasing past life.
Written 18 June 2018
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Neropatti
Helsinki195 contributions
Ideal space for art
Jul 2017 • Friends
A very versatile space to exhibit all kinds of art. Small but well stocked museum shop. I feel it's a bit outdated not to let people take photos.
Written 10 August 2017
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Poikilo - Museums is open:
  • Tue - Fri 11:00 - 18:00
  • Sat - Sun 12:00 - 17:00