Scientifically, culturally and architecturally interesting museum in Savonlinna with good public transport connections
Finnish Forest Museum Lusto的点评
点评:Lusto (literally Tree Ring) is located in Punkaharju, Savonlinna. The lakeside location is beautiful and there are good walking trails from the museum to the ridge area of Punkaharju. Restaurant Kuhankeittäjä and Art Gallery Aseman Taidelaituri are situated next to Lusto and it is only a short walk to Punkaharju Arboretum.
It is easy to come to Lusto also by public transport because Lusto has an own railway station (100 meters from the entrance of the museum) between railway stations of Savonlinna and Punkaharju. It is possible to visit Lusto during one day also from Helsinki, but you have to change trains in Parikkala. Notice also the beautiful linden alley next to the railway station of Lusto.
Lusto is a surprisingly big museum. They have both permanent exhibitions and changing exhibitions. Those permanent exhibitions tell about forestry but also about forest ecosystems and Finnish culture.
This year they have extremely interesting changing exhibitions. One of them presents chainsaws. Another exhibition (open until March 13th, 2026) tells about curly birches and that exhibition was my favorite in Lusto. Curly birch is a mutation of silver birch and that wood is extremely beautiful. It was extremely interesting to get information about the mutation and see very beautiful wooden products made of curly birch.
Actually the building of Lusto is architecturally interesting, too. It was completed in 1994 and it has been selected as a representative of Finnish 20th century modern architecture. The building is round like a tree ring (the annual growth ring of a tree).
翻译:卢斯托(Lusto,字面意思是“树木年轮”)位于萨翁林纳的蓬卡哈尤(Punkaharju)。博物馆坐落在风景优美的湖畔,从博物馆到蓬卡哈尤山脊地区有便捷的步行道。卢斯托博物馆旁边是“Kuhankeittäjä”餐厅和“Aseman Taidelaituri”美术馆,步行不远即可到达蓬卡哈尤植物园。
卢斯托博物馆拥有自己的火车站(距离博物馆入口100米),位于萨翁林纳火车站和蓬卡哈尤火车站之间,因此乘坐公共交通工具前往也十分便捷。从赫尔辛基出发,也可以一日游卢斯托博物馆,但需要在帕里卡拉(Parikkala)换乘。卢斯托火车站旁美丽的菩提树小巷也值得一看。
卢斯托博物馆规模惊人,既有常设展览,也有定期展览。这些常设展览不仅展现了林业,也展现了森林生态系统和芬兰文化。
今年他们举办的展览变化丰富,非常有趣。其中一个展览展示了电锯。另一个展览(开放至2026年3月13日)讲述了卷曲桦树,这个展览是我在卢斯托最喜欢的。卷曲桦树是银桦树的变种,这种木材非常漂亮。了解这种变种的相关信息,并欣赏用卷曲桦树制成的精美木制品,真是妙趣横生。
其实,卢斯托的建筑本身也很有趣。它于1994年竣工,并被选为芬兰20世纪现代建筑的代表。这座建筑呈圆形,就像树的年轮(树木的年轮)。