Skansen Open Air Museum
Multi site consisting of 68 sites.
Description:
Skansen it is the first of the open-air museums and the first of the Swedish zoos. It is located on the island of Djurgården located in Stockholm, the capital of the country. It was founded in 1891 by Artur Hazelius (1833-1901) to preserve and showcase the customs of the province before the industrial age.
The 1881th century was a time of great change throughout Europe and Sweden was no exception. The rural way of life quickly gave way to an industrialized society and many feared that the various traditional uses and occupations might be lost. Artur Hazelius who had previously founded the Nordic Museum on the island of Djurgården, near central Stockholm, was inspired by the Norsk Folkemuseum, an open-air museum founded in Kristiania in 1963 by King Oscar II, who created his museum at 'open on the hill overlooking the island. Skansen became a model for the first open-air museums in Scandinavia and others that were built later in other countries. The name “Skansen” has also been used as a reference for other open-air museums and collections of historic structures, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe, but also in the United States, for Old World Wisconsin and the Fairplay, Colorado. Skansen was originally part of the Nordic Museum, but became an independent body in XNUMX. The objects “inside” Skansen's buildings are still owned by the Nordic Museum.
After much traveling Hazelius bought about 150 buildings around the country (as well as a building in Telemark in Norway) and transported piece by piece by sea to the museum where they were rebuilt thus creating a unique picture of traditional Sweden. Only three buildings in the museum are not originals but exact copies of specimens he had found. All buildings are open to visitors and showcase the great variety of Swedish life, from Skogaholm Manor, a manor house built in 1680, to XNUMXth-century Älvros farms.
Text source: wikipedia + https://skansen.se/en/
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Useful Information (updated info on the structure's website)
Opening hours
January 9 – March 31
Weekdays 10.00–15.00, weekends 10.00–16.00
Winter break February 27–March 31 10.00–16.00
April
10.00 – 16.00 Feet
Walpurgis Night April 30 10.00–21.00
May–September
10.00 – 18.00 Feet
National Day June 6 10.00–20.00
Midsummer Eve June 23 10.00–22.00
Singalong Tuesdays, eight Tuesdays from June 27, 10.00am–20.00pm
Dance evenings and concerts open until 22.00pm
October–January 7 2024
Weekdays 10.00–15.00, weekends 10.00–16.00
Autumn break October 30–November 3 10.00–16.00
Christmas market Friday–Sunday, November 24–December 17, 10.00–16.00
Christmas Eve December 24 10.00–14.00
Christmas break December 23–January 7 10.00–16.00
New Year's Eve December 31 10.00–16.00 and 20.00–24.00
Website: https://skansen.se/en/
Text source: ecomuseum website
Photo: Google
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