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unusual facts about open air museum



Brashlyan

The monastical school (working in 1871–1877), the St Pantaleon, St Petka and St Marina chapels and the 17th-century bell tower of the St Demetrius Church have been restored by a local association; an ethnographic collection and an open air museum of agriculture were set up as well.

Nowa Słupia

Every year, a festival called Dymarki Swietokrzyskie (Holy Cross Bloomeries) is organized here in mid-August, at an open air museum, Archeological - and Cultural Center.

Polabí

The region is known for the number of historical, cultural and natural monuments: including open air museums in Přerov nad Labem, Ostrá and Kouřim; a famous spa in Poděbrady, the home of Czech composer Bedřich Smetana in Jabkenice, a museum of butter in Máslovice, and the museum of writer Bohumil Hrabal in Kersko.


see also

Chiltern Open Air Museum

Chiltern Open Air Museum is a museum of vernacular buildings and a tourist attraction located near Chalfont St Peter and Chalfont St. Giles in the Chiltern Hills, Buckinghamshire, England.

Craggaunowen Castle

Today, the castle is part of the open-air museum The Living Past Experience or Craggaunowen Park.

Gibellina

Additionally, Italian sculptor Pietro Consagra and Senator Ludovico Corrao formed an open air museum with a Consagra sculpture "Porta del Belice" or "Door to Belice" at the entrance.

Grimsby and Immingham Electric Railway

One of this class is preserved at the National Tramway Museum in Crich, and another, Grimsby and Immingham 26, is preserved at Beamish The North of England Open Air Museum, now operating as Gateshead 10.

Jödde i Göljaryd

The entertainer, whose real name was Karl Peter Rosén, was famous for his stone — Jödde’s Stone — which can still be seen at the open air museum of Skansen in Stockholm's Djurgården park.

Julleuchter

A comparable specimen was on display in the open-air museum of Skansen, based on a photograph kept in the Detmold state archive.

Karuna, Finland

A peculiarity regarding the church of Karuna is that the older wooden church from 1685 was transported into the open air museum of Seurasaari, Helsinki and replaced by a stone church in 1910 designed by Josef Stenbäck.

Kloster Veßra

Vessra Abbey (now an open-air museum) was founded and supported by the Henneberg family and abandoned after the Reformation.

Kysuce Protected Landscape Area

Attractions in the park include the Vychylovka (part of Nová Bystrica) switchback forest railway and Kysuce open-air museum.

Lachy Sądeckie

Lachy Sądeckie culture is featured in Muzeum Lachów Sądeckich in Podegrodzie, Lesser Poland Voivodeship and Sądecki Ethnographic Park (open-air museum) in Nowy Sącz.

Mönchgut

One main attraction is the local history museum in Göhren, an open-air museum located on historical settlements.

Nopporo Shinrin Kōen Prefectural Natural Park

also located inside the Park, is an open air museum with more than 50 historical Japanese and Western-style buildings, dating mostly from the Meiji and Taisho periods, and brought here from different locations in the Hokkaido Prefecture.

Nová Bystrica

In the local part Vychylovka, around 4 km further north-east, tourists can find some interesting attractions: the switchback railway, open-air museum of Kysuce village, established in 1974 primarily to save buildings from the now non-existing villages Riečnica and Harvelka, which were inundated by the Nová Bystrica reservoir, though it contains buildings from the other villages as well.

Precinct of Amun-Re

In the Open Air Museum, located in the Northwest corner of the complex, there are reconstructions of some of these earlier structures, notable amongst them the Chapelle Rouge of Hatshepsut, and the White Chapel of Senusret I.

SKAC

Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, New York, USA, an open-air museum which has extended the concept of a "sculpture garden" to become a "sculpture landscape

Słowiński National Park

In the village of Kluki there is an open air museum presenting aspects of this people's former life and culture.