Turku Cathedral Tuomikirkko

The Cathedral Museum in Turku exhibits objects depicting the Cathedral's construction stages, medieval wooden sculptures, chasubles and other church textiles, as well as church utensils. Many items date back to the Middle Ages.

The interior of Turku's Cathedral (restored after a fire in 1827) contains the monuments of many notable figures. To the right of the main entrance is the burial chapel of Torsten Stålhandske (d. 1644), the Swedish commander of the Finnish cavalry during the Thirty Years War, and to the left is the Tavast Chapel, with the tombs of Bishops Magnus Tavast (d. 1452), Olaus Tavast (d. 1460) and Magnus Stjernkors (d. 1500). To the left of the choir is the Kankas Chapel, the finest in the church, built for the Horn and Kurck families, in the center of which is the granite sarcophagus of the much-tried Queen Katharina Månsdotter (d. 1612), daughter of a poor common soldier, whom Eric XIV raised to the throne. To the right of the choir is the Tott Chapel, built by Per Brahe in 1678, with the tombs of the Swedish general Åke Tott (d. 1640) and his wife Sigrid Bjelke.