Architect:
Sari Schulman

Client, Project Management, Antiquitic Supervision:
Finnish National Board of Antiquities

Structural Design:
A-Insinöörit Engineers

Electrical and Telecommunications Design:
Sähkö-Ohmi Electrical Engineers

Main Contractor:
Ministry of Justice,
Correctional Services Department /
Hämeenlinna Prison

Heating and Plumming Contractor:
LVI-asennus Reino Tuominen Ky

The prison museum is situated in the former provincial prison at the medieval Häme Castle. The prison was still in use in 1993, a last relic of the extensive prison community that was once situated in the castle and its surroundings. The cell prison and the courtyard were turned into a prison museum, whereas the correction facility was to house some parts of the Hämeenlinna Town Historical Museum.

The most important single exhibition item is the building itself with its contents as they were at the end of its life as a working prison. The visitors travel the same route through the prison as the prisoners once did - through the cellar up to the storeys above. The lift and the exit stair, the new sanitary and utility areas and the new, roofed entrance were among the necessary additions.