Reidar Särestöniemi Museum

So it was ofcourse winter, which is very different from summer. If you are a female or male interested in taking care of your beauty, you need to be careful in choosing your beautycream when visiting Lapland in wintertime. If the cream contains water or other unconvenient ingredients, it freezes on your skin. Then again no filters or makeup is needed, cause your eyelashes will look like beautiful white frozen stars after half an hour walk outside. Special effect garanteed by nature. One year Kittilä witnessed - 51,5 C degrees and was the coldest city in Finland. Lapland is very special,unique place. I think there is no other ,such a, place in the whole wide world. It is amazing. To visit.

In Kittilà I visited Reidar Särestöniemi Museum. I was with my parents and we had also an excellent Lappish guide with us; a curious Indian man who loved Lapland so much that had become a guide there. He was the most talented skier I've ever known.

The Museum-site used to be artist's working studio, but after his death in1981 it became a museum. I reckon it was his sister that welcomed us there.

Reidar Särestöniemi lived a rough life. He had studied in Helsinki and in Leningrad, but for the rest of his life he had lived always in Lapland. He became friends with the President and was quite famous in the end - someone called him northen Picasso.

Very dark and cold winters and sunny summernights of Lapland were his environment. His work is overwhelming and use of colours full of passion. He was an artist who had studied to become an artist and he lived like an artist. Sensible, extravagant, interesting person probably, as much as the beauty and the emotional impact of his work. We are not the same , but he was one with his artwork Evviva Evviva Lapland ! Evviva Reidar !!! Never to forget museum.