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Kuokkala Museum Lane is located near the Kuokkalankoski rapids, about three kilometers from the center of Lempäälä, Finland. The museum area is jointly maintained by the municipality of Lempäälä and the Lempäälä-Seura association. The first museums opened in 1981, and today there are seven museums in total. A unique feature of the area is that the shop museum is housed in a former village store, and the blacksmith museum is located in an authentic smithy. The museum lane also includes a barber and hairdresser museum, a war veterans’ heritage room, and the traditional smoke cottage of Kustaa Puskema. The area also hosts the Sakkola Museum, maintained by the Sakkola Foundation.
Both Kuokkala Museum Lane and the Sakkola Museum are part of the "Museoraitti" network, which connects Finnish museums with an agricultural theme. The network includes private, association-run, and professional museums. What unites the members is a focus on agricultural artifacts and a desire to share knowledge and experiences with others in the same field. The network is coordinated by the Finnish Agricultural Museum Sarka. Kuokkala Museum Lane is also participating in a regional museum project for 2024–25, which involves several municipalities and is led by the Pirkanmaa Provincial Museum.
The museums can only be visited with a guided tour, which is recommended to be booked in advance. However, the shop museum may be visited without a guide if the guides are not currently leading a tour. Books related to the history of Lempäälä, as well as traditional Finnish treats like nekkus (syrup lollipops) and juice, are available for purchase.
The Pilgrimage Church of Wies (Wieskirche) is an oval rococo church, designed in the late 1740s by Dominikus Zimmermann. It is located in the foothills of the Alps in the municipality of Steingaden.
The sanctuary of Wies is a pilgrimage church extraordinarily well-preserved in the beautiful setting of an Alpine valley, and is a perfect masterpiece of Rococo art and creative genius, as well as an exceptional testimony to a civilization that has disappeared.
The hamlet of Wies, in 1738, is said to have been the setting of a miracle in which tears were seen on a simple wooden figure of Christ mounted on a column that was no longer venerated by the Premonstratensian monks of the Abbey. A wooden chapel constructed in the fields housed the miraculous statue for some time. However, pilgrims from Germany, Austria, Bohemia, and even Italy became so numerous that the Abbot of the Premonstratensians of Steingaden decided to construct a splendid sanctuary.