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Field hospital exhibition

During the Second World War the house served as a field hospital ward, and operations and other treatments were carried out in the old school. As a memorial to the war years, a field hospital exhibition was built in the old cowshed and opened in October 2018.

Field hospital exhibition

The Kovero school buildings served as a field hospital during the Winter War and the Continuation War. The exhibition in the outbuilding tells true stories of the wounded who were treated at the hospital.

It has a collection of more than 400 non-fiction books, front-line maps, hospital equipment and Outi Piiroinen's sculpture of a soldier who lost his leg in the war. The exhibition opened in the old cowshed in October 2018 and is open by arrangement.

Open
by arrangement
Collection
400+ books, front-line maps and hospital equipment
Opened
October 2018

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When is the field hospital exhibition open?

The exhibition is open by arrangement. You can add a visit to your booking as an extra or arrange it by phone.

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