The Musical Forest
The unique Soiva Metsä (Musical Forest) is a forest filled with artistic instruments that can not only be played but are pieces of art as well. The instruments are scattered around the beautiful landscape. The instruments are build by professionals of instrument building; Markku Penttilä, Olli Penttilä and Pekka Westerholm.
Soiva Metsä is located in Kaunisniemi, 7 kilometers from the Suomussalmi Center.
The Soiva Metsä instruments can be also reached by foot along the Seitenahveninen hiking trail. The trail starts from the Suomussalmi Center (Pitämä residential area) and leads to the Seitenahveninen Recreational Fishing and Trekking area.
From the Seitenahveninen Parking area you can go along the road to the Summer Theater “Kesäteatteri”. The Summer Theater is outdoors. Mostly the theater plays are in Finnish. From the Summer Theater there´s a path which leads into the Musical Forest “Soiva Metsä”.