The journey through the school has been really interesting, and it has gotten more and more interesting the higher the stairs we have climbed. The lower floors were just full of stockpiled stuff or empty classrooms, but the upper ones are in a much more authentic shape. It’s almost as if schoolwork had stopped justContinue reading “The Quiet School by the Market Square Part IX”
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The Quiet School by the Market Square Part VIII
In this class we can see the grim reality of the school’s digitalization. It’s no wonder there were so many floppy discs in the school, as the computers were this old. I think that one might still run Windows 3.1. It looks like someone’s been training to write with their toes. In the neighbouring classContinue reading “The Quiet School by the Market Square Part VIII”
The Quiet School by the Market Square Part VII
The fourth floor corridor was pretty much like all the previous ones. The long metal bars have been used to hang large charts to the front of the class. I hope the teacher was away, when they came down. The blackboard had been removed, but was still in the class. A strange display had beenContinue reading “The Quiet School by the Market Square Part VII”
The Quiet School by the Market Square Part VI
Up, up we go again And so we are reaching floor four out of five. Is it just me, or is the pupil art getting more spectacular the higher up we get? A wall full of aphorisms. Lovely. The expansion built in the 50’s featured two more floors on top of the two original gymnasiums.Continue reading “The Quiet School by the Market Square Part VI”
The Quiet School by the Market Square Part V
After the teachers’ common room we found some more wall art. Wonder why unicorns and rainbows always go together. This one looked like another classroom, but judging by the furniture it was rather a student union’s hangaround place. This paper might explain, why the school was abandoned. It’s a wellbeing survey, and the pupil tells,Continue reading “The Quiet School by the Market Square Part V”
The Quiet School by the Market Square Part IV
Next we found the teachers’ common room. Here they had removed almost nothing. All the stuff left behind was still there. At this point we realized, that even a high school had been in the same building. The bunch of papers on the floor includes application instructions to universities, the Finnish army’s newspaper, a telephoneContinue reading “The Quiet School by the Market Square Part IV”
The Quiet School by the Market Square Part III
The main stairway, like the one at the end of the building, was decorated with pupil made murals. We entered the first classroom and were disappointed. This one was exactly like all the previous ones. There was only more stuff left here than downstairs. Then we exited, and managed to have a look back towardsContinue reading “The Quiet School by the Market Square Part III”
The Quiet School by the Market Square Part II
In my previous post we explored a rather boring ground floor of an abandoned school. This time it’s time to start ascending the stairs. There were large pupil made murals in the staircase. They were all very well done and quite spectacular. The first floor corridor was emptier, yet darker than the one on theContinue reading “The Quiet School by the Market Square Part II”
The Quiet School by the Market Square Part I
After returning home I did some more research on the school I had spotted on my adventures. It was designed in the 1930’s by the same architect who had drawn the houses in Lättälä, Väinö Vähäkallio, and expanded in the 1950’s. It had once been the main school of the town, but was closed downContinue reading “The Quiet School by the Market Square Part I”
The Prelude to a Discovery
Welcome to Southeastern Finland and Lake Saimaa. I spent a lot of time here during one especially dry and hot summer. As my blog is about photos and stories from abandoned places as well as my story of discovering those abandoned places, I decided to take this opportunity to promote this part of Finland aContinue reading “The Prelude to a Discovery”