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Press releases
Fiskars Village wins the Royal Destination Award for Sustainable Tourism, press release 16 April, 2007.
Press information of current exhibitions is available at www.onoma.org
Press information of earlier exhibitions is available at www.onoma.org
Literature and links
The history of Fiskars Village
By telling the history of Fiskars Village from 1649 to the present, the book Fiskars 1649 — 350 Years of Finnish Industrial History also tells the story of the Finnish iron industry (pdf, English, Finnish, Swedish, 4.2 MB).
C.E. Carlsson: Fiskars 350, Otava 1999 (Finnish, Swedish). This history of the Fiskars Corporation focuses on the corporate story.
For more information about:
- The Fiskars Corporation, see www.fiskars.fi
- Fiskars products, see www.fiskars.com
Fiskars Village today
The Artisans, Designers and Artists of Fiskars Co-operative www.onoma.org.
Anna Paljakka: 10th Time (pdf, English, Finnish, Swedish, 4 MB). This book tells the story of how new inhabitants came to Fiskars Village after the heavy industry left, and how an old ironworks village was transformed into a center for Finnish arts, crafts, and design.
Sari Puustinen, Ilkka Ärrälä: At home in Fiskars, Tammi 2006. This book opens the door to nineteen homes in Fiskars. Historically, most of them have always provided accommodation for its workers, but also described are a number of new houses designed by well-known Finnish architects.