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Marko Ruuskanen\u2019s bird houses<\/h1>
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Marko Ruuskanen<\/em>, a gravedigger, started decorating the graveyards in Kirkkoniemi and Talvisalo with his artistic bird houses more than twenty years ago. Since then, hundreds of art bird houses have appeared across the Savonlinna area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is also an impressive row of ‘lovebird houses’ along the linden alley at the Punkaharju station’s art platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the artist’s bio<\/a> on our website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erja Eliala’s blog about the artist<\/a> (in Finnish).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Images: Sampo Luukkainen \/ ITE art surveys<\/a>, ITE in South-East (2011-2014), MSL and Erja Eliala<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ADDRESS<\/strong> Savonlinna city, Talvisalo and Kirkkoniemi graveyards. Art platform also at the Punkaharju station, Finlandiantie 58.
OPEN<\/strong> 24\/7
MORE INFORMATION<\/strong> Savonlinna guides<\/a> organise guided tours of the bird houses by appointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marko Ruuskanen, a gravedigger, started decorating the graveyards in Kirkkoniemi and Talvisalo with his artistic bird houses more than twenty years ago. Since then, hundreds of art bird houses have appeared across the Savonlinna area. There is also an impressive row of ‘lovebird houses’ along the linden alley at the Punkaharju station’s art platform. Read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3931,"template":"","destination_target":[323,397],"destination_opening":[345],"destination_type":[355],"class_list":["post-14502","destination","type-destination","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","destination_target-eastern-finland","destination_target-savonia","destination_opening-whenever","destination_type-public-sculpture-group"],"acf":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":14502,"fi":8142},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msl.fi\/itetaide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destination\/14502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msl.fi\/itetaide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destination"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msl.fi\/itetaide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/destination"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/msl.fi\/itetaide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destination\/14502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20752,"href":"https:\/\/msl.fi\/itetaide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destination\/14502\/revisions\/20752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msl.fi\/itetaide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msl.fi\/itetaide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"destination_target","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msl.fi\/itetaide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destination_target?post=14502"},{"taxonomy":"destination_opening","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msl.fi\/itetaide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destination_opening?post=14502"},{"taxonomy":"destination_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msl.fi\/itetaide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/destination_type?post=14502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}