Museums in Jokioinen
The Narrow Gauge Museum
The Narrow Gauge Museum is situated in the Minkiö station. You can find out about the history of railways, look around the carriages, and see the steam engines which are also running on summer Sundays.
The Narrow Gauge Museum and the rail handcar rental at Minkiö station will be open in Summer.
The original railway started operation in 1898 and the last freight train ran on the Jokioinen Railway on the 31st of March 1974 from Humppila to Forssa. The track between Jokioinen and Forssa was then pulled up. The museum railway has operated between Jokioinen and Minkiö since 1971, using the original carriages and steam engines. The line between Minkiö and Humppila was also lost in 1975. However, in 1994, this 8-kilometre, 750-mm-wide narrow gauge track was rebuilt and the length of the line is now 14 km.
Address:
Minkiön asema
Kiipuntie 49
FI-31630 Minkiö
Finland
Email:
info@jokioistenmuseorautatie.fi
Phone:
+358 3 433 3235
Charter trains and groups
+358 40 552 5322
Entrance fees of the Narrow Gauge Museum
Guided tours for groups: adults € 4.00, children 4 to 12 € 2.00. Children under 4 free of charge. The museum is open daily from 1 June until 9 August between 11.00 and 18.00.
There is a free entrance to individual visitors of the museum!
The Parsonage Museum
The provincial governor E. G. von Willebrand built the parsonage out of clay and straw in 1800, but it had to be covered immediately with bricks because the materials could not survive the Finnish weather. The museum preserves evidence of the ways of life in a country vicarage in the mid-1800s. The collections also include mementos of Miina Sillanpää’s life and pharmacy equipment from the 1800s.
Voluntary entry fee.
Address:
Vaulammintie 2, Jokioinen
Information:
Jokiäänin kotiseutuyhdistys
tel. +358 45 631 4203