Finnish Folk Art Museum Pasadena 2009
8th Finglish trip June 2009 #24 The Finnish Folk Art Museum is located on the grounds of the Pasadena Museum of History in Pasadena, California. The only museum of its type in the United States, it was created in 1974 by Yrjö Alfred Paloheimo, a native of Finland, who was the husband of Leonora “Babsie” Curtin. Consul Yrjö Paloheimo had a sauna built at the back of a garden at the manor originally owned by the family of his wife, Leonora Curtin Paloheimo. Finnish folk art and