That would be the way down, but we’re not going there just yet.

Practising the letter F.

The blinds are shut.

Another dark room with a maze.

The ceiling in this room was higher and the windows were different. I suspect, that this has been the assembly hall of the school before the gym was built.

A vintage closet.

An interesting work of art.

The maze is almost completely built out of different kinds of old doors.

Moving on to the former apartment wing.

They knew how to make stairways back in the days.

A small and dark room.

With old cupboards. This must have been the teacher’s bedroom.

And the old kitchen.

Another covered window.

This is probably the door leading to the balcony, which I spoke about in the first post from this location.

A fireplace similar to the downstairs apartment and a vintage TV.

Finally time to go down and end the exploration. When I reached the ground floor, I was shot at. The projectile ricocheted off the wall and hit me gently on the forehead.

“Stop it, it’s the photographer”, one kid said to the other.
“Sorry.”

A som i apa, just like in the 1990’s, when I was a kid.

I thanked the children, I thanked the dad waiting in the car and continued my journey. The school was demolished in the spring of 2024 to make way for a new kindergarten.

A fireplace up front and a toilet to the left. This has definitely been an apartment back in the days when teachers still lived in schools.

Since then it has been something else. Those look like clothes dryers.

“Wash hands when you come in the morning”. That’s pretty good advice for schoolkids

All kinds of innovative ways to protect the windows.

Another version.

Quite a mess here.

A closer look at the fireplace. It’s simple, yet beautiful.

An emergency exit.

It can’t be opened. What if I was in an emergency?

A diploma from 2002. That was the year I graduated primary school.

Back in the stairway. Let’s go and see what’s upstairs.

Poor Denmark.

For some reason I chose to go back to the main stairway to get upstairs.

The upstairs lobby.

Let’s have a look this way first.

A very 1990’s looking curtain.

A small kitchen. I believe I have found the teachers’ study.

And I believe I was right.

Suddenly a wild wallpaper appeared.

That does not display much talent.

The teachers had left all their material behind.

To be continued.

The corridor between the old and new wings was fairly primitive.

You can’t call the new part beautiful from the insides either, but the use of natural light was nice.

Even the toilet has been a shooting range.

This looks like the school library.

It looks as small and cozy as the entire school.

They’ve left everything behind. I bet I could find many childhood classics from here, but there was no time to look for it. I was in the middle of a warzone.

At the end of the corridor was the gym. It, like the first classroom, was also a storage of miscellaneous stuff, which wasn’t even originally from the school, such as the tourist information sign.

Wouldn’t want to start climbing that mess. But despite looking awful from the outside, the gym was actually a pretty nice place from the inside.

And the front contained large rolls of something looking like roofing felt.

Nice decorations painted on the wall.

Another kind of view. The roof has started to leak.

Back to the original part of the school then.

This room is probably close to the main entrance, as there has been a coat rack.

A darkish corridor. I believe the kitchen to be to the right.

Another room. Probably a classroom, as there seem to be remains of an overhead projector in the roof.

Light at the end of the tunnel.

And here we are, at the second staircase. I am now entering the section of the school, with the outside walls painted white. I believe, that it has originally been the teacher apartment wing.

But let’s see!

Back at yet another familiar location. This old elementary school for Swedish speaking kids had stood empty since 2014 waiting for demolition and replacement with a kindergarten. I’ve been looking for a way in twice in 2011 and once in 2022. This is already my fourth attempt.

For some strange reason there was a car parked up front and the main entrance was open. I still decided to go round the back to see, if I could get a clue of what was happening.

The school had been pretty intact during my first visit. Now it was difficult to find an intact window.

I climbed those stairs during my previous visit, but climbing inside through the balcony door was too dangerous, because the balcony floor was loose.

According to new documents I found, the annex with the gym wasn’t built in the 1960’s, but rather in 1976. It won’t be missed unlike the original school.

Almost done with my tour of the building.

I wish that they would just cut the building in two in here, demolish the part to the right and keep the part to the left. The museum authorities proposed this, but the city didn’t agree.

So now I’ve been around the building. And the front door is still open.

Some of you may remember, that I’m pretty good with neighbours. I once talked my way past a neighbourhood hawk into an abandoned teacher seminar, got one neighbor to guide me inside a former association house and even received zucchini as a consolation prize, when the neighbours could’nt find me a way inside an old leather factory. So with high confidence I approached the guy sitting in the car.

He tells me, that the school has been used as a playground for the local airsoft club for some years. His kid and some friends are inside playing at the moment and he’s the watchman for any problems. I tell, that I tour Finland and photograph abandoned places, and I’ve tried this place for many years. He calls the club president, tells that there’s a person here, who’d like to photograph the school for their own use, and asks if he can let me in.

I never mentioned that the photos would be published, but didn’t correct him, because publishing them on my own website technically is my own use. So after getting permission he calls the kids inside the building, tells, that a photographer is entering and tells them to be careful.

Sheer dumb luck.

But here we are. The airsoft use is clearly evident from all the obstacles built inside.

The first classroom was both a storage and a playground.

All the bicycle stands had ended up here.

All in all it looked like a nice, cozy school last renovated in the 1980’s or early 1990’s.

The main stairway was right next to the entrance.

But the entire area was a warzone.

A second classroom.

Some of the material of the mazes looked like it had been borrowed from the school, such as the old door to the left.

This room reminds me of my old kindergarten in the nearby city. The lamps were similar.

Looks like I’ve found the kitchen.

Almost everything had been left in their place.

A closed door with the text “no gaming area”.

Time to enter the ugly, 1970’s annex.