The Front Museum, Hanko

Advantages: Interesting, well researched, great for history buffs, different to other museums
Disadvantages: Lack of captions in English; you may not be into military history

...take a chance. Strictly speaking the Front Musuem in Lappohja in Southern Finland should have been closed for the winter when we visited the area in September 2007; in fact mid-September onwards is very much seen as the "off season" for most attractions in Finland, other than those in the heart of the cities (and even some of these close down for several months too). However, our Lonely Planet had been wrong before so we enquired at the tourist information ...
...contacted the curator of the museum and arranged an appointment for us to visit the Front Museum later that day. She even checked the train times for us to make sure we could arrive for the time we had arranged. Now that's service! The Museum is situated on Road 25 which runs between the towns of Karjaa (Swedish name - Karis ) and Hanko (Swedish name - Hango, the most southerly in Finland). There is some parking here and across the highway towards ... Read review