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Juminkeko
If you are interested in the Kalevala or Karelian culture as a whole, you must pay a visit to the excellent Juminkeko, a beautiful building made using traditional methods and modern styling. The fantastic staff can tell you anything about Karelia or the Kalevala that you wish to know; there are also three to four detailed exhibitions here every year in the gallery.
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Kalevala Village
The Kalevala Village, 3km east of the centre of town, is a big drawcard but of debatable value, especially if you're not with children. Despite the name, you won't learn much about the Kalevala here; it's essentially an open-air museum of Karelian folk history and log buildings with cultural exhibitions, artisan displays and costumed staff demonstrating tar-making, woodcarving, fishing and so on.
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Kuhmo Church
The striking 1816 wooden Kuhmo Church in the town centre is a venue for concerts during the chamber music festival.
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Orthodox Church
The Orthodox Church, 1km from the centre on the road to the theme park, is only 35 years old. It contains several 18th-century icons that were painted in the Valamo Monastery before it was annexed by the Soviet Union, plus a 300-year-old Madonna icon.
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Tuupala Museum
This charming Karelian farmhouse has been, in its past lives, a general store, pharmacy, inn, post office and home to the town's police chief. Fittingly, it now houses the museum of local history, the Tuupala Museum.
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Winter War Museum
The Winter War Museum displays artefacts from that bitter conflict.
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