Collection · UNESCO
Finland has seven sites on UNESCO's World Heritage List: a sea fortress, a wooden town, a wooden church, an industrial landscape, a Bronze Age burial site, a geodetic survey network, and a natural heritage site. Muinoin is a free map service where you'll find all of them on one map with further details: discover the ones near you and log your visits.
Open collection on the Muinoin map →7 sites · Listed since 1991
A sea fortress built on six islands off Helsinki, a short ferry ride from the Market Square. Sweden began construction in 1748 as a counterweight to Russia, and today about 800 people live there permanently.
Did you know: Suomenlinna is the only inhabited fortress island on the world's UNESCO list. Its postal address is simply "Suomenlinna, Helsinki".
View on Muinoin map →One of the best-preserved wooden towns in the Nordic countries. Around 600 wooden buildings form a dense whole that has been continuously inhabited and traded in since the 1400s.
Did you know: Rauma is the only inhabited wooden town on UNESCO's World Heritage List, and the local Rauma dialect is still spoken as everyday language in the town.
View on Muinoin map →A log church built in 1763–1765 that blends Renaissance and Gothic features in wood in an unmatched way. The church was in parish use until 1879.
Did you know: the church survived because it was forgotten. When the parish got a new church in 1879, the old one was simply left standing in a field.
View on Muinoin map →One of the world's best-preserved 19th-century small-scale industrial communities. The groundwood mill and board factory operated almost unchanged until production ceased in 1964.
Did you know: the mill was never modernized, and it was museum-ready exactly as it stood on the day it closed.
View on Muinoin map →33 Bronze Age cairn burials on granite outcrops north of Rauma, Fennoscandia's most significant and best-preserved Bronze Age burial landscape.
Did you know: the graves were originally built by the sea shore, but post-glacial land uplift has since moved the coastline kilometers away.
View on Muinoin map →Part of a chain of 265 triangulation points stretching from Norway to Ukraine, used to determine the precise shape and size of the Earth for the first time. Oravivuori is the best known of Finland's six points.
Did you know: the 19th-century survey measurements are still used to calibrate today's GPS systems.
View on Muinoin map →The world's most significant example of post-glacial land uplift. The land is still rising by about 8 millimeters a year, and the area covers around 5,600 islands and skerries.
Did you know: Kvarken is the only UNESCO site in the world that is literally growing. Former shallows keep rising above the surface.
View on Muinoin map →Finland has seven sites on UNESCO's World Heritage List: Suomenlinna, Old Rauma, Petäjävesi Old Church, Verla Groundwood and Board Mill, Sammallahdenmäki, the Struve Geodetic Arc, and the Kvarken Archipelago.
Both Suomenlinna and Old Rauma are inhabited. About 800 people live permanently in Suomenlinna, and Old Rauma is still lived in and traded in much as it has been since the 1400s.
Yes, all seven sites can be freely viewed from the outside. Some sites, such as Verla Groundwood and Board Mill, also offer paid guided tours indoors.
Suomenlinna is a short ferry ride from Helsinki's Market Square, making it the most easily reached of Finland's seven UNESCO sites.
Muinoin is a free map service that gathers Finland's historical sites into curated collections. Alongside Finland's UNESCO sites, Muinoin also covers medieval Finland's stone churches and castles. It works directly in your browser, with no app store install required. You can optionally log your visits.