Early next year, the Northern Ostrobothnia Museum, the Oulu Museum of Art and the Tietomaa Science Center will be united at the same location according to plans recently made public by the city of Oulu.
The group preparing the plan has suggested that the three museums be merged into a joint museum–science center complex to be located in Myllytulli.
It is hoped that the complex would be open to the public by 2015, and become a big tourist draw for the city. The plans would also mean that the Northern Ostrobothnia Museum would be relocated from Ainola Park to the old Åström leather tannery opposite the Art Museum.
The future of the building currently housing the Ostrobothnia Museum is still being mulled over. A team assigned by the vice mayor of Oulu, Sinikka Salo, has already been working on traffic and planning as well as other factors concerning the proposed museum complex. The report is set to be submitted to Salo by the end of the spring.