The Ministry of the Environment has confirmed the protection decisions previously issued by the Central Finland Regional Development Centre.
In Jyväskylä, the conservation decisions for the Museum of Central Finland, the Alvar Aalto Museum, St. Olav’s Catholic Church and the former school buildings in Kuhankoski, Laukaa, have been sealed.
The sites are protected under the Building Heritage Act. The Ministry of the Environment has confirmed the protection decisions previously issued by the Central Finland Regional Development Centre.
The justification for the protection decisions states that the Museum of Central Finland and the Alvar Aalto Museum, designed by Alvar Aalto, are of national and international importance.
The ensemble formed by the museums is a rarity in Aalto’s production, because these are the only objects designed by Aalto and built as museums in Finland.
The museum buildings have been well preserved in their original condition, including the fixed furnishings and some movables. The buildings have been in their original use all along, and they represent well the history and continuity of construction, care and use.
St. Olav’s Church, built in 1963, is one of the eight Catholic church buildings in Finland.
The design of the church is related to the Catholic Church’s significant mass reform in the early 1960s.
Pyhän Olav’s church, located on Yrjönkatu, is in its original use and has been exceptionally well preserved both externally and internally in its original condition. Protected permanent interior design includes, for example, the spectacular stained glass windows.
The buildings Päivälä and Muurahinen, the former schoolhouse of Laukaa Kuhankoski, belong to the same courtyard and are the most central buildings of the schoolhouse’s founding phase.
Päivälä is the main building of the schoolhouse, completed in 1925. Large, nearly hundred-year-old public wooden buildings are rare in Finland. The buildings represent the classicist-influenced facility design of the 1920s.