The Wolkoff House Museum

History comes to life in this museum

The house museum can only be visited on a guided tour, but it is worth the effort. An excellent presentation shed light on the history of Ivan W, who came to Finland as a serf in the 1840s, became a F...

Onetime visit

The Wolkoff House Museum is an interesting little museum in the Lappeenranta city center. I gave 3* because I think it was not worth 4* but perhaps 3½* would have been correct. Anyway I guess the ma...

Closed for the summer

This authentic home of a Russian merchant family is located close to the Town Hall. The beautiful house is one of the oldest remaining wooden buildings in Lappeenranta. It was constructed between ...

Home museum

Wolkoff family lived in this house for about a century until mid 80s. They have kept and saved pretty much everything, so you can see f.ex. one of the first telephones in Lappeenranta. Everything is a...

Wolkoff’s House Museum’s Foyer

You get to Wolkoff’s foyer directly from the museum shop. It’s a small place. One room, barely big enough for about four people. But it’s big in history. The whole history of Lappeenranta lives th...