Museum in Pietarsaari

1-    Museum in Pietarsaari

2-    History of Jacobstad

3-    The museum was founded in 1904, but worked as a private museum until 1906. It is a historic museum which is concentrated on maritime and ship building. The main building of the museum is called Malmska gården.

4-  5-6-7. The second day of our experience in Finland, we went to visit the Museum in Pietarsaari, in which two women explained to us the history of the city and they showed us some photos of the most important people who lived there.

On June 19, 1652 Queen Christina of Sweden agreed to the Income Jacob de la Gardie the right to found a city in the parish Pedersöre. Unfortunately he died shortly after signing this right, but his widow ordered a plan for the city which was called the city Jakobstad.

The economic foundation was laid in the middle of the 18th century, with tar manufacturing and tobacco packaging at its centre. Trade started to develop rapidly in Jakobstad as of 1765, when the cities along the Finnish shore of the Gulf of Bothnia were granted privileges by the Swedish crown to trade directly with foreign countries. This also led to shipbuilding becoming a major activity in Jakobstad. The first ships to sail with goods to foreign countries were the galeas Jacobstads Wapen and the brig Enigheten. The first Finnish ship to sail to the East Indies was the frigate Concordia (1782-1785), the first ship on the Baltic Sea was the brig Ann Charlotte (1838) and the first ship to circumnavigate the world was called Hercules (1844 - 1848).

I was so surprised about the history of Jacobstad and the new instruments of navigation used by Finnish sailors at that time.  The ships were big for the economy increment of the city and they had the Russian flag, this is because Finland was under the control of the Russians.

It was an interesting visit, because all of us coming from the other countries could know what happened there lots of years ago.

          SARA MOHAMED