Fiskars Villagers’ love for gardening

In 2018, the museum’s garden volunteer project was launched, and thanks to it, the area around the Slagbyggnaden building has been spruced up and gained several new flower beds. The work has been led primarily by the museum’s garden volunteer, Milvi Pesari. Milvi is a textile artist who lives in the village, but she is also an enthusiastic gardening hobbyist. 

She has created flower beds using plants that were already in the garden, as well as seeds from her own garden. Her flower beds represent the museum’s efforts to document gardening as a hobby within the framework of the Finnish museums’ documentation division, TAKO, where Fiskars Museum also carries national responsibility for collecting gardening tools for its collections. 

TAKO is a collaborative network for professional museums. Its work focuses on documentation and collection activities and is based on the voluntary participation of the over 100 museums that are part of the network. The museums themselves have identified different areas and topics and divided the documentation responsibilities among them. 

Fiskars Museum chose to take national responsibility for documenting gardening as a hobby and for collecting gardening tools for its collections. It is therefore part of working group or pool 1, called “Humans and Nature.” More information about the different themes and the division of work among the museums can be found on the TAKO network’s website.