About this site
The first Finnish teacher seminary was established in Jyväskylä in 1863. Teacher training began in Hämeenlinna in 1890, when J.H. Tuhkanen's itinerant school seminary was founded, which operated at Saaristenkatu 10 from 1899 to 1912. Inspector Aukusti Salo was tasked at the beginning of 1919 with finding premises for a primary school seminary within his inspection district. The city offered the institution rented premises in spring 1919 and also decided to donate a plot in Kauriala to the seminary. The state agreed to this, and the seminary's opening was celebrated on 25 August 1919 at the Myllymäki schoolhouse. A modern seminary building was completed on the donated plot at the corner of Erottajakatu and present-day Seminaarikatu, inaugurated in 1930. The classicist building was designed in 1928 by Hj. Åberg; the director general Y. Sadeniemi of the Board of Public Buildings handled overall supervision. E. Schroderus served as interior architect, designing the furniture and textiles. The new furnishings were commissioned from Turku Central Prison and the window curtains and other cloth goods were woven at Hämeenlinna Women's Prison. Both the interior and exterior paint colours were designed by artist E. Ruokolainen. The building was later extended with a practice school to a plan by architect Elsa Arokallio. The inauguration ceremony for the new practice school and the renovated seminary building was held on 13 February 1954.
Official description (Museovirasto) — machine-translated from Finnish
- Municipality
- Hämeenlinna