Excursions

The Artefacta Conference offers three excursions for the conference participants. They will take place on Friday, 17 February between the last sessions and the conference dinner.

The excursions are free, but you need to register beforehand, because the group size is limited. Further instructions on the registration will be posted later.

The excursions:

1. Aboa Vetus Ars Nova Museum (https://avan.fi/en)

Aboa Vetus Ars Nova Museum hosts both medieval ruins in situ, and contemporary art at the old center of Turku. The guided tour will take you to see the medieval exhibition (90 min) as well as the art exhibition ‘Mika Taanila: Film Reader’ (30 min). Mika Taanila’s (b. 1965 Helsinki) works focus on media archaeology and explore the relationship between the digital and the analogue (https://avan.fi/en/nayttelyt/mika-taanila).

2. Luostarinmäki outdoors museum (https://www.turku.fi/en/luostarinmaki)

Luostarinmäki Handicrafts Museum consists of consists of 14 houses with 80 interiors and five themed exhibitions. The houses were built in a period from the 18th century to the early 19th-century, and it is the largest area to completely survive the Great Fire of Turku of 1827. The museum is usually closed at this time of the year, but it will be opened for our guided tour.

3. Turku Cathedral (https://www.turuntuomiokirkko.fi/english)

Turku Cathedral was founded in the Middle Ages, and it is considered ‘a national shrine’. The guided tour will be directed by Dr Panu Savolainen who is Assistant Professor in History of Architecture and Architectural Conservation at Aalto University. In addition to the main attractions in the cathedral, the excursion will take you also to places not usually open to the public.

(Photo: Wall plate, 1934. Photo: Turku Museum Center / CC BY 4.0)