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Opena Air Museums
Austria
Salzburger
Freilichtmuseum
A-5084 Grossgmain
Tel: +43 662 85 00 11
E-m: salzburger@
freilichtmuseum.com
Web: www.freilichtmuseum.
com
100 original constructions
established from agriculture,
craft, rural trade and industry.
Take a trip through six centuries
and discover the rural past of
Salzburg.
Salzburger Freilichtmusem
craftsman
Österreichisches
Freilichtmuseum
Stübing
8114 Stübing (Graz)
Tel.: + 43 (0)3124/53700
E-m: service@freilichtmuseum.
at
Web: www.freilichtmuseum.at
About 100 original historic
buildings were re-established
surrounded by forest, meadows
and cornfields. The oldest
building is about 600 years
old. Craftsman pass on their
traditional art
Museum Tiroler
Bauernhöfe
A-6233 Kramsach (Tirol)
Tel.0043 05337/62636
E-m: office@museum-tb.at
Web: www.museum-tb.at
Along a valley that represents
the geographical situation of
Tyrol The museum houses farms
some historically furnished and
equipped (some dating pre 1500).
There is a school, a shooting
range, a watermill, a smithy, a
fire station and a public baths
Belguim
Bokrijk Open Air
Museum
3600 Genk (Flanders)
Tel: +32 (0)11 265 300
Fax: +32 (0)11 265 370
bokrijksales@limburg.be
Bokrijk Open Air Museum
More than 100 authentic buildings
with contents, interpreters in
period costume and craftsmen
show how things were done a
century ago in the rural Flanders
communities of The Kempen,
Haspengouw and East and West
Flanders. This year, Bokrijk is
bringing the swinging sixties life
to the Old City
THE ESTONIAN
OPEN AIR MUSEUM
ESTONIAN VILLAGE IN THE CAPITAL OF ESTONIA
Open daily year-round (except June 24, Dec 24, 25 & 31).
In summer season (Apr 23 – Sept 28) at 10:00 – 20:00.
In winter season (Sept 29 – Apr 22) at 10:00 – 17:00.
Situated within a 15-minute drive from the center of Tallinn:
Vabaõhumuuseumi tee 12, Tallinn.
Information line: +372 654 9100
evm@evm.ee / www.evm.ee
Czech Republic
Open-air Museum
Veselý Kopec
Hlinsko
Tel/Fax +420 469 326 415
E-m: sls.vysocina@atlas.cz
Web: www.vesely-kopec.eu
In East Bohemian, a collection of
approx 30 folk buildings dating
back to the 19th century, learn
how people lived when there was
still no electricity or machines.
Events with historic characters
throughout the year
Wallachian Open Air
Museum
756 61 Rožnov pod Radhoštěm
Tel (+420) 571 757 111
Web: www.vmp.cz
This complex revives the
forgotten traditional
technological methods, folk
art and customs and the
reconstruction of social life,
trades and ways of entertainment
of our ancestors.
Denmark
Den Gamle By
8000 Aarhus C
Tel: +45 86 12 31 88
E-m: mail@dengamleby.dk
Web: www.dengamleby.dk/
“The Old Town” - was founded in
1909 as the world’s first openair
museum of urban history and
culture.75 historical houses from
Denmark demonstrate how a
Danish town might have looked in
Hans Christian Andersen’s days,
with streets, shops, yards, homes
and workshops.
The Funen Village
5260 Odense S
Tel: +45 6551 4601
E-m: museum@odense.dk
Web: www.museum.odense.dk
Odense City Museums offer
guided tours of the Funen Village
in English and German. A guided
tour gives you a good introduction
to the history of the Funen
Village and to life in the Funen
countryside in the 19th century.
Hjerl Hedevej
7830 Vinderup
Tel: +45 9744 8060
E-m: info@hjerlhede.dk
Web: www.hjerlhede.dk
In Northern Jutland, A hundred
volunteers, don period peasant
clothing and inhabit the houses
and workshops in the old village.
See life 200 years ago. Through
the many live, hands-on activities
visitors will gain insight into the
peasant culture and its living
conditions, artisan traditions and
customs.
Estonia
Estonian Open Air
Museum
13521 Tallinn
Tel: +372 65 49 101
E-m: info @ evm.ee
Web: www.evm.ee
Located in a lovely forest park just
15 minutes’ drive from the centre
of Tallinn. 12 farms show the life
of families of different occupation
in 18th-20th centuries. There’s
also a church, a school, several
mills, a 1930s village shop, a large
handicraft shop. Traditional food
served at the inn.
Finland
Seurasaari Open-Air
Museum
Seurasaari
FI-00250 Helsinki
Tel: +358 40 128 6374
E-m: seurasaarenulkomuseo@
nba.fi
Web: www.seurasaari.fi
Located on a beautiful island just
a few kilometres from the heart
of Helsinki. A Museum with 18thand
19th-century traditional
houses, manors and outbuildings
from around Finland. Guides
dressed in traditional costume
demonstrate folk-dancing
and crafts such as spinning,
embroidery and troll-making
France
Musée de plein air des
Maisons comtoises
25360 NANCRAY
Tel.: +33 (0)3 81 55 29 77
Fax: +33 (0)3 81 55 23 97
Over a 15-hectare site, visitors
gain insight into the lives of our
ancestors from their traditional
habitat – genuine 17th, 18th and
19th-century Franche-Comté
houses have been carefully
uprooted from their original
locations and painstakingly rebuilt
ST JOSEPH Village
62340 GUÎNES (Côte d’Opale)
Tél : + 33 (0) 3.21.35.64.05
Fax : + 33 (0) 3.21.85.08.58
Situated in the middle of a
natural site, the Guînes marshes
(10 mns from Calais), St Joseph
Village is a Museum of Man and
the Environment that will bring
visitors back in a village from the
beginning of the 20th century.
Germany
Schwarzwälder
Freilichtmuseum
77793 Gutach
(Schwarzwaldbahn)
Tel.: +49 – 7831 – 93 56 0
E-m: info@vogstbauernhof.org
Web: www.vogtsbauernhof.org
Six fully fur nished farmhouses,
labourer’s cottage and 15
outbuildings, such as mills,
sawmills, barns, stalls, a chapel,
storehouses and a granny house
(Leib gedinghaus) Demonstrations
and events show the fabric of
past life in the Black Forest
Rheinisches
Landesmuseum für
Volkskunde.
53894 Mechernich-Kommern
Tel: +49(0)244399800
E-m: kommern@lvr.de
Web: www.kommern.lvr.de
Admire farms, windmills,
workplaces, a school, a bakery, a
ballroom and a chapel. About 65
historic buildings from different
regions of the Rhineland were
rebuilt. These buildings show
how the locals used to work, live
and act since the end of the 15th
century
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