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Chicory Museum
The Chicory Museum is in the old chicory factory, founded in 1883 and preserved pretty much as it was when it closed in 1960. It was built by local entrepreneur Wilhelm Schauman who saw the market for making chicory into an additive for coffee, which at the time was an expensive commodity.
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Fantasea Park
This amusement park, Fantasea Park at Gamla Hamn has water slides, arcade games, pools and a good swimming beach.
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Jacobstads Wapen
In Gamla Hamn (the old harbour area) is the pride of Jakobstad, the Jacobstads Wapen, modelled after a 17th-century galleon. There's a small museum explaining the history of the ship and the building of the replica. Public sailings on the Jacobstads Wapen are given only a couple of times a year; inquire at the tourist office.
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Jakobstadsmuseum
Jakobstadsmuseum includes the old main building (Malmska Gården, dating back to 1904) with local-history displays on the shipping industry and town itself, as well as a tobacco museum and several historic houses scattered around the town centre.
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Motormuseum
The Motormuseum, to the north of town, by the harbour, is a private museum with a fascinating collection of over 120 motorcycles - from old Harley Davidsons and Nortons to homemade, motor-powered bicycles.
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Norrmalmsgatan
One of the prettiest streets is Norrmalmsgatan. The area is wholly residential; there are no trendy antique shops or quirky cafés to slake a visitor's thirst! To enter, you pass through an ornamental entranceway, with a (visually) striking clocktower bridging the street.
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Pedersöre Church
The beautiful Pedersöre Church, on the way into town from the south, was originally built in the 1400s, but the bell tower dates from the 1760s. During the reign of King Gustav III the church was greatly enlarged to become a cross-shaped structure. Thankfully, the architect thumbed his nose at the king's plan to demolish the 85m spire. It's well worth the walk out to see it.
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Vapenmuseum
The Vapenmuseum is a small private collection of Jakobstad resident Bengt Ena. There are more than 300 old guns, hunting rifles, machine guns and military pistols dating back to the 1740s.
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Wooden Houses
Stretching for several blocks to the north of the new town, Skata, the old town of Jakobstad, has around 300 Wooden Houses (Skata) that have been beautifully preserved and are the highlight of a visit. Most of them were built in the 19th century and were occupied by sailors and workers; the 18th-century houses along Hamngatan are the oldest in town.
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