The Salpa Line Museum ( fi, Salpalinja-museo, russian: Музей линии "Салпа") was established and opened in 1987 by the Miehikkälä municipality and

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

veteran organisations. It is the first museum established belonging to the museums of Miehikkälä. The other museum is Miehikkälän kotiseutumuseo, the Miehikkala local arts-and-crafts museum, which was established in 1989 and is in the same building as the

Engineers Museum The Engineers Museum (officially ''The pioneer museum'', in Finnish: valtakunnallinen, i.e., all-national, Pioneerimuseo, in Russian: Музей саперных войск) is the oldest corps museum in Finland. It was opened 13 May 1945 in ...

. The Salpa Line Museum is the core of the Salpa Centre. It is both the tourist information centre of the Salpa Line Museum, the Engineer Museum and the Bunker Museum and the Salpa Line Museum centre itself. The area around was built as a defence line and the defence centre of an infantry company in 1940-1944. It was never used for defence as the front line never reached the area due to the truce of 5 September 1944 and the

Moscow Armistice The Moscow Armistice was signed between Finland on one side and the Soviet Union and United Kingdom on the other side on 19 September 1944, ending the Continuation War. The Armistice restored the Moscow Peace Treaty of 1940, with a number of mo ...

of 19 September 1944. Some of the preserved Salpa Line areas are classified by Finland's National Board of Antiquities to the Built-up cultural environments of national importance1 (Valtakunnallisesti merkittävät rakennetut kulttuuriympäristöt – Byggda kulturmiljöer av riksintresse1). The territory of the Salpa Line Museum belongs to the one of the four such areas in

Miehikkälä Miehikkälä is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Kymenlaakso region. The municipality has a population of (), which make it the smallest municipality in Kymenlaakso in terms of popula ...

: Kylmälä, Miehikkälä municipal cente, Muurula and Myllylampi.

Exhibits

Due to the nature of the museum, most collections are located outside in the woods. Some bunkers from World War II remain. Outside the museum centre building, there are several anti-tank guns.

Gallery

Image:Salpaline machinegun bunker.jpg, A machine gun bunker in the Salpa Line Museum Image:Salpa line anti tank gun.jpg, 7.5 cm Panzerabwehrkanone 40 in the Salpa Line Museum #360

Open hours

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References

Museums in South Karelia Military engineering Technology museums in Finland Museums established in 1987 Military and war museums in Finland