Municipality in Uusimaa, Finland
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Tuusula (Swedish: Tusby) is in Uusimaa. The administrative centre is the urban area of Hyrylä (Swedish: Skavaböle).
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Museum to the female WWII volunteers in supportive roles, such as in military hospitals, canteens and air raid lookouts.
Kellokosken sairaalamuseo
Founded in 1973, the hospital museum operates in a blue wooden house in the courtyard of Kellokoski Hospital. You can get acquainted with the history of various treatments, the operation of the hospital during the war years and the lives of the patients and staff who influenced the hospital.
Ilmatorjuntamuseo
The premises of the Helsinki Air Defence Regiment until 2006 has been turned into a museum with guns and other air-defence equipment from WWI until modern times on display.
A small domestic animal farm with a cafe.
In the south of the municipality, at the border with Vantaa, there's a popular place for watching and hearing airplanes landing on Helsinki-Vantaa International Airport. Leave freeway 45 at the Korso exit, drive westwards to the Lemminkäinen cement factory. Leave your car by the side of the road and walk up the hill. Here the planes fly almost right above your head before they touch down on the runway.
The road that goes along the eastern lakeshore (Tuusulan rantatie) is a scenic drive in the summer.
Tusby träsk
Aleksis Kiven kuolinmökki
The last home of Aleksis Kivi (1834–1872), one of the most famous writers in Finnish history. He's buried in Tuusula cemetery, at the southern end of the lake.
The home of the painter Pekka Halonen (1865–1933).
A bar with karaoke and bingo.
A pub restaurant serving Albanian and Balkan cuisine.
Sells (and displays) Americana from jukeboxes to signs and clothing. The shop and the owners are famous in Finland thanks to the reality show Vintage-valtakunta (Vintage realm).
There are frequent buses from central Helsinki, Vantaa and Kerava to Hyrylä.
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