Historical information about Pellinge and this society
The first written information about the Pellinge archipelago found so far is when the Swedish king Karl wrote a letter to his knight in Vyborg from Pellinge in year 1441. It's expected that the main islands in Pellinge got their first population between 1000 and 1250. The first existing taxation books are from about 1540 and already then there was 13 houses registered in three villages.
Old photos.

Pellinge Hembygdsförening i Helsingfors (PHF) was founded in 1937 by a group of active people from Pellinge, now living in Helsinki. The meaning of the society is to take care of the collecting of historical material from the late 19th century and the early 20th century in order to be able to show how people in the archipelago lived in those days.

The Museum Hörbergsgården is a museum house transferred to the museum site from the village Söderby. Other buildings belonging to the museum are two houses where boats are kept, a stable, a smithy, a barn and a sheep-house. The Museum is normally open on Saturdays from 12 to 14 during summer.

Events
The society will arrange a Midsummer party, a children's party and together with other sponsors arrange a country people's sailing boat competition in the beginning of July. For more details, please contact the secretary by e-mail, the addresses can be found at the "Styrelsen" page. At the museum, an exhibition will be open on the Museum's open hours from 11th of June till the last weekend in August. We're having a stand at the summer market place where you can find all our publications and other interesting things with connections to Pellinge.

Books
PHF has distributed five books about Pellinge. The books are for sale at the market place. All books are written in Swedish. It's possible to order the books by e-mail.

Maps and charts
The oldest map of Pellinge found so far was made 1650 - 1651. PHF has got the right to distribute copies of the original, which is kept in the National Archive in Helsinki. We've also made a special copy of coastal charts connected to the Pellinge archipelago. We've filled more information to the chart as stones, shallows, names of islands and other details.

Klovharun
The author of the Moomin books, Tove Jansson, had her summer place in Pellinge as already her parents had. In 1995 she decided not to go to her summer place anymore and left the cabin to PHF. We keep the house intact and this summer we ask friends to visit the place during 13.7 -18.7.09. Other times the cabin is in use and not allowed to visit.