Top Things to do in Aland
Things to do in Aland, Aland: The Best Specialty Museums
Discover the best top things to do in Aland, Finland including Museumship Pommern, Aland Hunting & Fishing Museum, Kastelholm - Open-air Museum, Kastelholm Castle, Eckero Post Och Tullhus, Wennstroms Lanthandel/Museum, Kokar Museum.
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1. Museumship Pommern
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 226 reviews
The museumship Pommern is the world’s only 4-masted sailing ship still in its original state. On board you can explore the ship from hold to charthouse. The ship is a part of the Aland Maritime Museum, an exciting museum for children and adults alike. The exhibitions are filled with dramatic stories, fantastic objects and lots of interactivities. The Aland Maritime Museum is open all year round, the museumship Pommern between May and September.
Reviewed By Carpediemkath
Touring the Pommern was so much fun with the headphones narrated by the ship's rat, Ruby. I absolutely loved climbing around all the rooms in the ship and seeing where different sailors got to sleep (LOVE the bunks!). The officer's quarters were so ornately decorated, and the captain's cabin has a little tube running from the deck straight to his bed so he can speak with whomever is on deck. Down in the vast hold you can experience a storm at sea. Excellent exhibits.
2. Aland Hunting & Fishing Museum
3. Kastelholm - Open-air Museum
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 12 reviews
Reviewed By saronic - Zurich, Switzerland
The Jan Karlsgarden Friluftsmuseum next to the Kastelholm Slott is an open air museum giving a good insight into the rural past of the Alands. There are several buildings from the 18th and 19th century to see with sometimes people in traditional costume performing time-honoured crafts. I was especially fascinated watching two ladies at the 'Rodfärgskokning', stirring a long stake in a big pot with boiling red dye. Several of the buildings and barns of this open air museum are painted in that copper-based falun red, so typical of the Swedish and Finnish countryside. The 'Wärdshus' here functions as a self service restaurant, where we had coffee and a quite good Aland's Pannkaka with Sviskonkräm (a prunes compote). What is not missing at this museum is a maypole. From here we went to visit the separate Prison Museum by the entrance.
4. Kastelholm Castle
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 231 reviews
Reviewed By Svenskaklubben - Helsinki, Finland
The Kastelholm castle might be small compared to other of the same era, but it's rather well preserved and its vast history is portrayed with dignity. The refurbished areas are well made, but it had not been rebuilt for the sake of itself. The sometimes violent past is also visible. The icing on the cake - or actually even maybe the cake itself - was an excellent guided tour in English (other available languages are Finnish and Swedish). Filled with humour and carefully hand picked historical details, the one-hour-tour flew by like it would have only lasted a few minutes. There's also the opportunity to visit the castle on your own, but the guided tour is strongly recommended.
5. Eckero Post Och Tullhus
7. Kokar Museum
Overall Ratings
3.5 based on 2 reviews
