Töllinmäki Museum

Frans Emil Sillanpää is a Finnish Nobel Prize-winning author who was born in 1888 and died in 1964. Sillanpää’s parents became impoverished while educating their son, and went bankrupt when living in Haukijärvi.

In 1905, they bought the former shoemaker’s cabin in Töllinmäki, a village in Heinijärvi. In Töllinmäki, Sillanpää spent his youth and wrote his first novel. The parents lived in Töllinmäki until Pransu’s death in 1921. After that, the cabin was sold by auction and mother Miina moved in with her son’s family to Saavutus.

Töllinmäki is open in the summer season from june 23 to August 11, on Saturdays and Sundays from 12:00 to 18:00.