Alpo Jaakola’s sculpture park is a unique and fascinating ensemble, where nature and large-scale sculptures form an imaginative symbiosis. Professor Alpo Jaakola (1929–1997) was an artist born in Loimaa, also known as the Shaman of Saviseutu. Jaakola moved to the statue park area, to a small forest cottage, in 1953. Following his artistic breakthrough, Jaakola built a studio building next to the cottage in the 1960s and later made a barter deal with the municipality of Loimaa for an old morgue, which he moved to the park to use as a sculpture studio. In return, the municipality of Loimaa received the first work by Alpo Jaakola, entitled “Kaupunkiyhdyskunta” (1968), for its collection.

Unfortunately for Jaakola, Highway 9 was built so close to his home that the noise from traffic eventually forced him to move away from the statue park area in 1979. Prior to this, he had protected the four-hectare forest area behind the park. The statue park has been open to the public since 1992.

You can explore the park by walking along the artist’s “Stone Path of Art”. The path is flat, so it is also accessible by wheelchair or pram. The buildings are not accessible.

There is a summer café in the statue park, and dogs are also welcome in the park!

During the summer, you can visit the statue park and Loimaa Art Museum with the same admission ticket.

For more information, visit the Loimaa Art Museum website, where you can also learn more about Alpo Jaakola’s life and art.

Dryer gallery

During the summer, an art gallery operates in the old dryer building next to the statue park car park. The Dryer Gallery is open during the statue park’s opening hours. Information about this year’s Dryer Gallery exhibition can be found on the Loimaa Art Museum website.

During the summer, you can visit the statue park and Loimaa Art Museum with the same admission ticket.

Dry gallery exhibition harvest

Statue park in pictures