Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Kuopio, Finland

The statue of Minna Canth in Minna Canth Park in the Maljalahti district of Kuopio city centre was unveiled in 1937. The statue was designed by Finnish sculptor Eemil Halonen.

Wikipedia: Minna Canthin patsas (Kuopio) (FI)

Kuopio Pentecostal Church or Kuopio Eelim Church is a Pentecostal church founded in 1927. The leading pastor of the church is Petri Melander. The parish's premises are located in the centre of Kuopio on Vuorikatu. The congregation has about 900 members. The congregation belongs to the Pentecostal Church of Finland.

Wikipedia: Kuopion helluntaiseurakunta (FI), Website

Kuopio United Methodist Church is a Methodist church based in Kuopio, Finland. The congregation was founded in 1910. The pastor of the church is Elisa Brander. The parish's premises are located in the centre of Kuopio on Puusepänkatu. The congregation belongs to the Finnish Methodist Church.

Wikipedia: Kuopion metodistiseurakunta (FI)

The Kuopio Museum is an Art Nouveau-style museum building completed in 1907 on the edge of Snellman Park in Vahtivuori, Kuopio, Finland. The Kuopio Museum is the third oldest specially built museum building in Finland after the Helsinki's Ateneum (1887) and the Turku's Art Museum (1904). It has national romantic features and was inspired by Finnish castles, such as St. Olaf's Castle and Vyborg Castle. The building's architect was J. V. Strömberg, who designed a significant number of Kuopio's public buildings at the turn of the 20th century. The Kuopio Museum houses the exhibition facilities of the Kuopio Museum of Natural History and the Kuopio Museum of Cultural History. The museum is visited by an average of about 30,000 visitors a year.

Wikipedia: Kuopio Museum (EN), Website

The J. V. Snellman House Museum is a house museum located in the Väinölänniemi district of Kuopio city centre. The museum displays the family home of J. V. Snellman (1806–81) with its furniture and artefacts. During his years in Kuopio (1845–49), Snellman lived mainly in this house.

Wikipedia: J. V. Snellmanin kotimuseo (FI), Website

The Snellman Park is the oldest park in the city of Kuopio, Finland, located at the Vahtivuori district in the city center between the Kauppakatu and Minna Canthin katu streets, in the adjacent block of Kuopio Cathedral. The park covers an area of 1.4 hectares. Today, the park and its surroundings are part of the larger Kuopio National City Park, established in late 2017. The park is named after J. V. Snellman (1806–1881), the senator and the Fennoman, who influenced the affairs of the Grand Duchy from Kuopio, among other places.

Wikipedia: Snellman Park (EN)

Kuopio Cathedral is a stone Neoclassical-style Evangelical Lutheran church in Kuopio, Finland, and the seat of the Diocese of Kuopio. The cathedral was built between 1806 and 1815. There is a bust of Johan Vilhelm Snellman in the square in front of the cathedral.

Wikipedia: Kuopio Cathedral (EN), Website

The Kuopio Art Museum is a regional responsibility museum in Northern Savo. The museum used to be the Regional Art Museum and was born after almost 30 years of plans and temporary exhibition space in 1980.

Wikipedia: Kuopion taidemuseo (FI), Website

The Brothers statue is a bronze sculpture by sculptor Heikki Konttinen from 1959. It is located at Kuopio Market Square at the eastern end of the Market Hall, surrounded by a shower tray.

Wikipedia: Veljmies-patsas (FI), Artist Wikipedia

Sister Girl is a bronze sculpture designed by sculptor Taru Mäntynen, located in the Market Square at the western end of Kuopio Market Hall. The person in the sculpture looks diagonally in the direction of City Hall, holding a barometer in his hands. The work was unveiled in 1984.

Wikipedia: Siskotyttö (FI), Artist Wikipedia

Kuopio City Hall is a town hall in center of the Kuopio, Finland, near the Kuopio Market Square. It was designed by Finnish architects F. A. Sjöström and Josef Stenbäck, and was completed in 1886. Stylistically, the city hall is of the Neo-Renaissance of the second half of the 19th century. The current exterior coloring of the house dates back to 1974. In the most beautiful municipal buildings poll, in 2009 Kuopio City Hall was chosen among the three most beautiful municipal buildings. When completed, it sovereignly controlled the northern edge of the market square, the area around the square was still completely wooden at that time. Spatial changes were common in the first decades of the house. The first floor of the house had a restaurant and a public library.

Wikipedia: Kuopio City Hall (EN), Website

Kuopio Hero Park is a former cemetery located in the Multimäe district of Kuopio city centre. Located just one block from Kuopio City Hall, Hero Park is located in Kuopio Cathedral Parish. Hatsala Cemetery was founded in 1811 and was originally in use until the 1860s. Subsequently, the cemetery was used to bury the heroic dead who fell in the wars of 1939-45, hence the cemetery's current name.

Wikipedia: Kuopion Sankaripuisto (FI), Website

Kuopio City Theatre is the largest professional theatre in Eastern Finland. The theatre director is Tommi Auvinen.

Wikipedia: Kuopion kaupunginteatteri (FI), Website