Riihisaari – Savonlinna Museum is a unique and award-winning museum that has, for over forty years, presented museum steamships, the inland waterway traffic of Lake Saimaa, regional culture, cultural history, and art, while also hosting a wide range of events. Its location in the centre of Savonlinna, in the heart of Lake Saimaa, is both magnificent and exceptional. Right next door stands the world’s northernmost medieval fortress, Olavinlinna Castle. In addition to its exhibitions and museum ships, Riihisaari hosts a wide range of events throughout the year. Concerts, lectures, and other events of varying scale are popular and bring people together in the museum’s atmospheric setting. The Olavinlinna castle and its surroundings form one of Finland’s 27 officially designated national landscapes. In Savonlinna, water is everywhere—for the simple reason that the town is built on islands. The protected museum island of Riihisaari is one of the islands on which Savonlinna was originally founded.

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