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Radio And TV Museum (Lahti, Finland)
Radio and TV Museum, also known as Mastola, is a museum located in Lahti, Finland. The museum is near the city centre on the Radiomäki hill (literally translated to Radio Hill). Next to the museum building are two 150-meter-high radio masts built in 1927. The masts are a well-known landmark and a symbol of the city. The museum operates in a radio station building designed by a Finnish architect Kaarlo Könönen and built in 1935. The Radio and TV Museum was opened in 1993. The museum went through an extensive renovation between the years 2014–2016 and reopened in 2017. The museum operates under the Lahti City Museum. The Radio and TV Museum collects, researches and exhibits objects related to radio and television especially in Finland. It is a national specialist museum in its field. Visitors can experience old radio and television programmes and see equipment of different eras. The museum also hosts temporary exhibitions, seminars and events. Collection The museum collectio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Technology Museum
A technology museum is a museum devoted to applied science and technological developments. Many museums are both a science museum and a technology museum. Some of the most historically significant technology museums are: *the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris, founded in 1794; *the Science Museum in London, founded in 1857; *the Deutsches Museum von Meisterwerken der Naturwissenschaft und Technik in Munich, founded in 1903; and *the Technisches Museum für Industrie und Gewerbe in Vienna, founded in 1918. *the Computer History Museum in California, founded in the 1970s. Further technology museums in Germany include the Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin-Kreuzberg, the Technoseum in Mannheim, the Technik Museum Speyer, the Technik Museum Sinsheim and the . The most prestigious of its kind in Austria is the Technisches Museum in Vienna. Many other independent museums, such as transport museums, cover certain technical genres, processes or industries, for example mining, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these items available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. The largest museums are located in major cities throughout the world, while thousands of local museums exist in smaller cities, towns, and rural areas. Museums have varying aims, ranging from the conservation and documentation of their collection, serving researchers and specialists, to catering to the general public. The goal of serving researchers is not only scientific, but intended to serve the general public. There are many types of museums, including art museums, natural history museums, science museums, war museums, and children's museums. According to the International Council of Museums (ICOM), there are more than 55,000 museums in 202 countrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lahti
Lahti (; sv, Lahtis) is a city and municipality in Finland. It is the capital of the region of Päijänne Tavastia (Päijät-Häme) and its growing region is one of the main economic hubs of Finland. Lahti is situated on a bay at the southern end of lake Vesijärvi about north-east of the capital city Helsinki, south-west of the Heinola town and east of Hämeenlinna, the capital of the region of Tavastia Proper (Kanta-Häme). It is also situated at the intersection of Highway 4 (between Helsinki and Jyväskylä) and Highway 12 (between Tampere and Kouvola), which are the most significant main roads of Lahti. In English, the Finnish word Lahti literally means ''bay''. Lahti is also dubbed the "Chicago of Finland" due to the early industries of both cities, when they were known as " slaughterhouse cities".Lahti on Suomen Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland across Estonia to the south. Finland covers an area of with a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city, forming a larger metropolitan area with the neighbouring cities of Espoo, Kauniainen, and Vantaa. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Finns. Finnish, alongside Swedish, are the official languages. Swedish is the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to the boreal in the north. The land cover is primarily a boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first inhabited around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period. The Stone Age introduced several differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Centre
A city centre is the commercial, cultural and often the historical, political, and geographic heart of a city. The term "city centre" is primarily used in British English, and closely equivalent terms exist in other languages, such as "" in French, in German, or ''shìzhōngxīn'' () in Chinese. In the United States, the term " downtown" is generally used, though a few cities, like Philadelphia, use the term "Center City", while others such as Portland use the term “City Center". Overview and related concepts The city centre is the (often historical) area of a city where commerce, entertainment, shopping, and political power are concentrated. The term is commonly used in many English-speaking countries and has direct equivalents in many other languages. However, noticeably, in the United States, the term " downtown" is commonly used to denote a city centre, and in Canada the terms "city centre" and "downtown" are used interchangeably, most notable in the modern, purpose-built ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Hill (Lahti)
Radio Hill ( Finnish: ''Radiomäki'') is a hill located in the city centre of Lahti, Finland. It is part of the Salpausselkä ridge system, with its peak at an elevation of . The hill's earlier name was ''Selänmäki'' ('Ridge Hill'). After a cemetery was established there in the 1890s, the hill became known as ''Hautausmaanmäki'' ('Cemetery Hill'). The cemetery, known today as ' ('Old Cemetery'), is closed to new interments. The hill gets its present name from the Lahti longwave transmitter station established there in 1927–1928, and operated by the country's public broadcaster, Yle, until its decommissioning in 1993. The Finnish Radio and TV Museum, known as ''Mastola'', is now located on the site, operated as part of the City of Lahti municipal museums. As a highly visible reminder of the radio station, the twin radio masts remain, standing high and apart, forming a well-known landmark of Lahti. The hilltop milieu surrounding the earlier radio station has been des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaarlo Könönen
Kaarlo Könönen (December 12, 1892 HaminaAugust 2, 1965 Lahti) was a Finns, Finnish architect. He graduated from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1919. From 1922 to 1923, Könönen worked as a city architect in Kotka. To Kotkansaari he designed several apartment buildings representing 1920s classicism. The most famous one being Vuorelankulma, completed in 1927. He also worked as an architect for the Finland's Ministry of Defense in 1924. From 1925 to 1929, Könönen worked in private architectural firms, one of those was Eliel Saarinen's office in Hvitträsk. Könönen worked as a city architect in Lahti from 1929 to 1955. During that time his style changed closer to functionalism (architecture), functionalism. His well-known works include Lahti bus station (1939), the extension of Lahti Town Hall (1934), the residential areas of Vesterås and Tapanila and the Heinola Water Tower (1951). References {{DEFAULTSORT:Kononen, Kaarlo 20th-century Finnish architects Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
