Luostarinmäki Handicrafts Museum is an open-air museum in Turku.The museum consists of 18 blocks of original 18th-century – early 19th-century buildings on their original location. The area of the museum was the only old residential area left in 1940, when the museum was opened. The location was the largest area to completely survive the Great Fire of Turku.
The idea for the museum was put forward in a local newspaper article as early as 1908, after the oldest part of Cloister Hill had been demolished – now the street of Sirkkalankatu. The idea was rejected for nearly 30 years, until the city’s new museum committee was convinced to create a museum in the style of Den Gamle By, an earlier museum in Aarhus, Denmark.
