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Konsta

Konsta
Espoo City Museum
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Finland
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Bio

I’m an exhibition technician working in KAMU Espoo City Museum, Finland. I’m also a member of a board in Finnish Museum Technical association with a Master craftsman’s degree in museum technology.
I love outdoor museums and historical buildings and one of my tasks is to do administrative and procurement work to enable crafts, workshops and pedagogy in our two outdoor museum branches: Glims Farmstead Museum and Pentala Archipelago Museum.
While working in Espoo Museum I’ve built several prehistorical and historical exhibitions with a strong emphasis on craft workshops and experimental archaeology. I’ve designed and crafted hands-on-exhibits also to other Finnish museum exhibitions and originally got involved in museum world through ancient crafts and re-enactment.
I started with historical trekking activities and primitive shelter building in the late 90’s and haven’t stopped since. Lately I’ve been really hyped about early modern ski replicas and winter trekking / hunting / survival in general and I organize short and long treks with prehistoric or historic equipment in every season. I’m a founding member of Finnish-Swedish 17th century re-enactment group GARS (Thirty Years' War infantry), I shoot black powder firearms and I’ve written about military history for museum publications.

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Open for research collaboration in the following topics

Available for work in open-air museums or at cultural heritage events with demonstration skills in

Happy to mentor and share my experience in the following skills

Looking for collaborators to help with my research in the following topic

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