Sarka is an

agricultural Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating Plant, plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of Sedentism, sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of Domestication, domesticated species created food ...

museum located in

Loimaa Loimaa (; historical sv, Loimijoki) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Finland region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is ...

Southwest Finland Southwest Finland, calqued as Finland Proper ( fi, Varsinais-Suomi ; sv, Egentliga Finland), is a region in the southwest of Finland. It borders the regions of Satakunta, Pirkanmaa, Tavastia Proper (Kanta-Häme), Uusimaa, and Åland. The regi ...

. The name of the museum comes from a

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word meaning a strip of field. The first discussion on the need for a local museum of agriculture started as early as in the 1940s. The Finnish Ministry of Education took the museum under its wing in the 1985 and in 2003 the official decision was made. Sarka revolves around the history of the agriculture in Finland and the museum presents 3000 years of history. The two main exhibitions are called ''The Age of Agriculture'' and ''Before Machines''. Additionally there's an exhibition called ''Powered by Machines''. Since 2019 the director of the museum has been Sami Louekari ( PhD) as the previous director retired. Aside from the museum there's also restaurant that serves lunch and

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