This mental hospital was built in 1956 according to a plan established by Finnish architect V. Nortomaa. There were 108 beds in this hospital for patients who were easily controllable by medication. In even the earliest days of this hospital there was little need for electroshock therapy or lobotomy because psychotropic medication was invented in the mid-1950’s and was started to be used also in Finland.
The hospital served it’s original purpose presumably until year 1991, when many of this kind of institutions were shuttered in Finland. After that, the hospital building served as an old people’s nursing home until the year 2010.
I visited this place in May 2016. Then the electricity was still running in the building, so I didn’t take interior shots because I was afraid of some kinds of alarms. So, this gallery contains only exterior shots. The second gallery is coming soon…
