Hamina Sights

  1. Shopkeeper's Museum

    Shopkeeper's Museum is a former merchant's store and residence, and has people dressed the part, serving customers with all manner of handmade curios and souvenirs. It's one of the best house museums in Finland. Kasarminkatu was a main shopping street in the 19th century.

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  2. SS Hyöky

    A short walk southwest of the centre at Tervasaari harbour is the bright red former lightship SS Hyöky (southwest of Tervasaari harbour) a 1912 steamship completed in the same year as the Titanic. It served both Russia and Finland in its colourful career, and was the last coal-burning steamship in commercial use in Scandinavia. During summer it's now a cluttered museum, bar and hotel.

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  3. Town Museum

    Housed in Hamina's oldest building, the Town Museum is the museum of local history. King Gustav III of Sweden and Catherine II (the Great) of Russia held negotiations in one of the rooms in 1783.

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