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 'Museum Inn Rauhala'  is Finland's oldest traditional inn still in operation. It is located in Kouvola. Rauhala Inn is a unique still functioning inn representing its own era. It is also a living museum that operates in an original sheltered setting and a house built as a guest house. A resident of the inn can participate in and experience the authentic serene inn life of the 30s in the original milieu in person.

Tourist accommodation after the Great War
Rauhala's architecture has retained the functional design of the 1930s. According to the same type drawings, other guest houses were also built in Finnish settlements, usually close to railway stations, but most of these guest houses from the 1930s have already been demolished. Rauhala Inn was built next to Myllykoski  railway station in 1934. It was built by Lilja, a paper master, who had previously established Rauhala guest houses for his wife in Suojärvi, Poroj. After the First World War, Rauhala became the most typical name of Finnish guest houses. . The origin of the name comes from the post-Great War world, where the name of the modest inn boasted "Pax Inn" all the way to India.

Protected cultural site
The size of the building is about 200 m². 29. December 2014}} There are two commercial apartments downstairs, one of which originally became a dining room and a café. { According to the type drawings, there were 5 passenger rooms upstairs. The business rooms on the ground floor of the building once housed a hardware store, driving school and photo studio, which still operate in Myllykoski ref name = "book"> Pajuoja Reijo (2003) Myllykoski Village Book 2. Myllykoski Homeland Association ISBN 952-92-6167-0.

Living museum
In addition to accommodation, the inn also serves as a living museum, offering the visitor a real touch of the 30s. The aim is to keep the inn in its original condition as much as possible and to restore it. There have once been commercial apartments on the ground floor of Rauhala, where e.g. Myllykoski hardware store, Myllykoski driving school and Kuvamo Helena. The locals recall how the children acted as messengers during the war, bringing messages to the staff officers of the headquarters fortification office in Rauhala from the fortification office, which was located in the premises of the nearby Myllykoski paper mill.

In Popular culture
In the 1950s, Rauhala Inn was inhabited by, among other things, a traveling comedy theater Red Mill. Among the theater members, Aku Korhonen, Olavi Virta, Tapio Rautavaara, Esa Pakarinen and other rillumarei musicians visited the house. December 2014}} The house also visited locations in musician circles became known as an elementary school teacher Juha Vainio, which served as an elementary school teacher in the community in the 1960s. . At the end of the 1950s, [[Catharina ”Kitty” Linder | Kitty Linder], who had presented herself as Mannerheim's bride, lived in Room No. 2. For a long time, Linder went to the local KOP office to raise her alimony, says Eeva Partanen, the hostess of the Guesthouse.

Exotic accommodation
In the recent Madventures Finland travel guide by Riku Rantala and Tunna Milonoff (Johnny Kniga), Museum Rauhala Inn is one of Iltalehti's favorite destinations. Rauhala Inn is the oldest business still operating in the original premises in Kouvola. It has been selected for the Finland 100-project Our Kymenlaakso project, which presents 100 Kymenlaakso companies on the occasion of Finland's anniversary year. Iltalehti has listed Rauhala as one of the most interesting accommodation places in Finland. This is clear from Riku Rantala's and Tunna Milonoff's recent Madventures Finland travel guide (Johnny Kniga). According to the guide, Guesthouse Rauhala is a classic entertainment center serving a century-old inn that exudes the atmosphere of the 1930s. Local students have been involved in the restoration work. The inn is preserved like a living museum, so an adventurer who appreciates history seeks the peace of Rauhala.

Elsewhere on the topic

 * Kievar Museum, Kouvola
 * Silent stories of an old inn YLE
 * The light is still on Guesthouse Rauhala is still waiting for passers-by in Myllykoski. YLE
 * Museomajatalo website