The Mill Museum
School Groups
Verla is suitable for visitors of all ages. The guided tour can be modified to respond the group's age and needs.
For younger children we recommend a shortened and simplified version of the tour, which concentrates on stories of the people who worked at the mill. For older pupils and students, more detailed information can be added to the tour. If you wish the guide to focus on a certain theme (machines, technology, history, architecture, world heritage etc.), please mention this to our staff when you book the tour.
The visit can include:
a guided tour at the museum
Verla forest trail (2km)
prehistoric rock paintings (near the parking lot)
lunch, snack
workshops (e.g. making cardboard)
For bookings and more information, please contact our info desk.
Enquiries
come for a tour
The Verla Mill Museum, consisting of the groundwood and board mill, can be visited only as part of a guided tour. Tour guides bring the museum to life with stories about the mill. The museum offers tours in various languages for international guests.
Each summer, approximately 35,000 guests visit the World Heritage site. About 10% of those who tour the museum come from abroad, and each year the museum is visited by guests from 50–60 different countries. The museum is owned and maintained by UPM.
Ticket sales
Tickets for museum tours can be purchased in advance from the museum’s webstore. Tickets are also sold at the museum’s info desk, which accepts cash and the most common bank and credit cards.
OPEN 2024:
- 2 May – 29 September Tuesday to Sunday 11-16
- 24 June - 15 August daily 10-18
- The last tour of the day is at 16 or 18.
- On Midsummer’s Eve the museum is closed.
ADMISSION:
| Adults | €15/person |
| Students, the unemployed and senior citizens | €10/person |
| Groups of more than 20 people | €10/person |
| Children under 18: | Free |
Museum tour
15,00 €
Museum tour for groups
10,00 €
History trail for groups
School Groups
From fossils to bioeconomy – UPM Biofore exhibition
The collections
The core of the Verla Mill Museum collection is located in the mill buildings, with other artefacts on display in exhibitions around the site as opportunities permit. The museum’s buildings, artefacts and photographs are catalogued in the Kantapuu database.
Samples of the wallpaper in Verla’s buildings have been catalogued in the wallpaper database of the National Board of Antiquities’ Department of Monuments and Sites.
In December 2008, the professional cultural history museums of Kymenlaakso started to plan for a joint collections management policy. The Verla Mill Museum’s collections policy was completed in the spring of 2012.