Washing Machine - Kastelholm, Aland Islands
N 60° 13.889 E 020° 04.957
34V E 449189 N 6677544
Old wooden washing machine can be seen in a utility room at the Vita Bjørn Prison Museum.
Waymark Code: WM18QDQ
Location: Åland Islands
Date Posted: 09/11/2023
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Old wooden washing machine can be seen in a utility room at the Vita Bjørn Prison Museum.
The washing machine consists of a wooden barrel with a handle at the top. When you move the handle from side to side, a kind of propeller rotates in the machine itself and washes the clothes. These machines are from around 1900 and are a great help to women at that time.
Maybe washing clothes was part of the prisoners' job.
Incidentally, behind the washing machine you can see another machine which is used to smooth large pieces of clothing such as sheets and tablecloths. This also works by turning a handle, after which the clothes are passed through two wooden rollers. Probably also around the 1900s.
A few different zinc tubs and wooden vessels are in the same room.
It is not possible to enter the room as it is blocked off by a grid. But you can look inside.
Vita Björn was opened as a museum in 1985 and was Finland's first public prison museum at the time.
The prison Vita Björn was built in 1784 and was in operation until 1975.
The prison was not big. It originally consisted of three prison cells, where two more were built in 1839.
Furthermore, there was a residential part for the prison officers and their families.
Today, the buildings function as a prison museum, where there is a display in the form of boards and objects from the time as a prison.
Address:
Slotsvägen
Kastelholm
Aland Islands
Website for Museum/Business: [Web Link]
Admission: 0
Business Hours:
From May to October
Monday - Sunday
10am-5pm
Website for additional information: Not listed
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