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The archaeological exhibition is placed on the ground floor of
the main building of the estate and is subdivided into three sections.
The first part is set up in the so-called "Stone Age room",
which was opened in 1979 and shows artefacts from different parts
of Finland. With the aid of maps the visitors can familiarize
themselves with the evolutionary stages of human beings and their
living conditions during the past as well as with the development
of the region.
A characteristic model of a usual living situation during the
Stone Age as well as 2 grave designs can be seen in our showcases.
The Bronze Age and Iron Age exhibition (1300 - 500 BC / 500 BC
-1150 AD) was inaugurated in 1981 and it shows objects of value
from southwest Finland. Findings from excavations in the hill
Aittamäki just a few hundred meters away were added to the
Iron Age exhibition in 1997.
Kinds of innovation of the Bronze Age were high burial mounds
built of detritus rocks. One of these burial places was uncovered
and researched also at the storehouse-hill of Vanhalinna. Already
during the second century BC this rural place was used for urn
cemeteries and later, during the AD tenth century, again by the
Vikings for cremations.
The second part of the exhibition presents also a grave construction,
burial objects and other finds.
The third section of the archaeological exhibition is displayed
in the "Castle mound room" (Linnavuori-huone). This
part was inaugurated in 1989 and here the visitor can gain a general
insight into the archaeological work between 1950 and 1970.
All objects are from the prehistoric hill of Vanhalinna (e.g.
tools, game pieces, coins, harnesses).
In the middle of the "Castle mound room" there is a
model of the former fortified rampart with reconstructable buildings.
 Mauno
and Ester Wanhalinna Home Museum
Archaeological
Exhibition
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