changing exhibitions 2024-2025

Changing exhibitions for the season 2024-2025

The larger exhibition “Assault Gun Aces – Sturmgeschützs in defensive battles of the Karelian Isthmus 1944” sheds light on the history of the Finnish Assault gun battalion during the battles of Summer 1944. The exhibition also presents the history of the German assault gun units operating in Finland in the summer of 1944. The exhibition consisting of texts, pictures, maps and interesting authentic objects, highlights the fierce tank battles that took place in the Karelian Isthmus 1944.

The second exhibition “Tank Crushers – Armour Jaeger Battalion in the Isthmus Firestorm in the Summer of 1944” presents the actions of the Armour Division´s anti-tank fighters, the Armour Jaeger Battalion, in the fierce battles of the summer of 1944. The hard battles of the three anti-tank companies of the battalion, used as so called “fire extinguishers”, are presented with texts, pictures and maps.

The main exhibition hall will also display a Powerpoint presentation of “Destiny Kuuterselkä” related to the stories of Assault Gun veterans who participated in battles in the summer of 1944. This presentation is a part of the “At a turning point in 1944” series launched by the Military Museum.