List of open-air and living museums

This is a list of open-air and living history museums by country.

Africa

Egypt

• Luxor Upper Egypt
• Memphis ruins
• Karnak largest temple complex in the world

South Africa

• Worcester Museum (Klein plasie open-air museum), Worcester Western Cape

Tunisia

• Matmata (Open-Air Museum of "Troglodyte" houses), Governorate of Gabes, south part of Tunisia, the whole village registered by UNESCO World Heritage, today is maintained by the Association of the Cultural Protection of Matmata)

Asia

China

• Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum, Hong Kong
• Sam Tung Uk Museum, Hong Kong
• Xinye Village, Zhejiang

Indonesia

• Taman Mini Indonesia Indah

Israel and the Golan Heights

• Katzrin Ancient Village
• Nazareth Village

Japan

• Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum, Tokyo
• Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone, Kanagawa
• Meiji Mura, Inuyama, Aichi
• Nihon Minka-en (Japan Open-Air Folk House Museum), Kawasaki, Kanagawa
• Open-Air Museum of Old Japanese Farmhouses, Osaka
• Hida Minzoku Mura Folk Village, Takayama, Gifu
• Kyodo no mori, Fuchū, Tokyo
• Sankeien, Naka Ward, Yokohama
• Shikoku Mura, Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture

Malaysia

• Colmar Tropicale, Bukit Tinggi, Pahang
• Japanese Village, Bukit Tinggi, Pahang
• Monsopiad Cultural Village. Penampang, Sabah
• Sarawak Cultural Village, Kuching, Sarawak
• Taman Mini Malaysia & Asean (Malaysia and Asean Miniature Park), Ayer Keroh, Malacca
• Taman Tamadun Islam (Islamic Civilization Park), Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu

Philippines

• Expo Pilipino
• Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar

South Korea

• Korean Folk Village, Yongin, Gyeonggi

Taiwan

• 921 Earthquake Museum of Taiwan, Taichung
• Ju Ming Museum, New Taipei

Europe

The wooden church in Drvengrad open-air museum, Serbia

Austria

• Austrian Open-Air Museum, Stübing
• Salzburger Freilichtmuseum, Großgmain
• Carinthian Open-Air Museum, Maria Saal
• Museums of Tyrolian Farmsteads, Kramsach
• Museumsdorf Niedersulz

Belgium

• Open Air Museum Bokrijk, (Flanders),
• Bachten de Kupe (Itzenberge), (Flanders),
• Fourneau St Michel (Ardennes), (Wallonia),

Bulgaria

• Etar Architectural-Ethnographic Complex, Gabrovo

Czech Republic

Old Bohemian House in Přerov nad Labem, Czech Republic – the first open-air museum in Central and Eastern Europe (1895) founded by Archduke Ludwig Salvator

• Hanácký skanzen (Skanzen of Hanakia), Příkazy
• Museum lidových staveb (Folk Buildings Museum), Kouřim
• Polabské národopisné muzeum (Ethnographic Museum of the region of Polabí), Přerov nad Labem—the oldest skansen in Central and Eastern Europe
• Skanzen Straznice skanzenstraznice.cz
• Valašské národopisné muzeum (Wallachian Ethnographic Museum), Rožnov pod Radhoštěm http://www.vmp.cz/en/
• Skanzen Vysoký Chlumec, (http://www.muzeum-pribram.cz/exhmpb/exmvs/exmvs.html)
• Skanzen Veselý kopec - Soubor lidových staveb Vysočina, (Open-air museum Vysočina http://www.vesely-kopec.eu/en/)

Denmark

• Land of legends (Sagnlandet Lejre), Lejre
• The Middle Ages Center in Sundby a suburb of Nykøbing Falster
• The Old Village, Hjerl Hede, Vinderup
• The Old Town, Aarhus
• Open Air Museum (Kongens Lyngby)
• The Funen Village in the Fruens Bøge district of Odense
• Glud Museum, near Horsens
• Maribo Open-Air Museum

Estonia

• Estonian Open Air Museum, Tallinn
• Mahtra Peasant Museum, Mahtra, Juuru Parish, Rapla County
• Mihkli Farm Museum, Viki, Kihelkonna Parish, Saare County
• Mõniste Peasant Museum, Kuutsi, Mõniste Parish, Võru County
• Põlva Peasant Museum, Karilatsi, Kõlleste Parish, Põlva County
• Viimsi Open Air Museum, Pringi, Viimsi Parish; near Tallinn

Finland

• Luostarinmäki, Turku
• Seurasaari Open-Air Museum, Helsinki
• Telkkämäki Heritage Farm, Kaavi
• Turkansaari, Oulu

France

• Musée de plein air des maisons comtoises, Nancray, Doubs, Franche-Comté^[1]
• Musée de plein air de Villeneuve-d'Ascq, Villeneuve-d'Ascq

Germany

Roscheider Hof, Germany

• Black Forest Open Air Museum, Gutach, Baden-Württemberg
• Campus Galli medieval town with Carolingian monastery, Messkirch, Baden-Württemberg
• Dat ole Huus, Wilsede, Lower Saxony
• Detmold Open-air Museum, Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia
• Groß Raden Archaeological Open Air Museum, nr Sternberg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
• Hagen Open-air Museum, Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia
• Hessenpark, Neu-Anspach, Hesse
• Hitzacker Archaeological Centre, Hitzacker, Lower Saxony
• Hösseringen Museum Village, Hösseringen, Lower Saxony
• International Wind- and Watermill Museum, Gifhorn, Lower Saxony
• Kommern Open-air Museum, Mechernich, North Rhine-Westphalia
• Lindlar Open-air Museum, Lindlar, North Rhine-Westphalia
• Mödlareuth village, Bavaria and Thuringia
• Oerlinghausen Archaeological Open-Air Museum, Oerlinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia
• Ore Mountain Toy Museum, Seiffen, Saxony
• Rhineland-Palatinate Open Air Museum Bad Sobernheim, Bad Sobernheim, Rhineland-Palatinate
• Rischmannshof Heath Museum, Walsrode, Lower Saxony
• Roscheider Hof, Konz, Rhineland-Palatinate
• Slavic Village Passentin, near Neubrandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
• Swabian Farm Museum, Illerbeuren, Bavaria
• Winsen Museum Farm, Winsen (Aller), Lower Saxony

Georgia

• Open Air Museum of Ethnography, Tbilisi

Hungary

• Szentendrei Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, Szentendre
• Szennai Szabadtéri Néprajzi Gyűjtemény, Szenna
• Göcseji Falumúzeum, Zalaegerszeg
• Őrségi Népi Műemlékegyüttes, Szalafő-(Pityerszer)
• Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, Ópusztaszer
• Sóstói Múzeumfalu, Nyíregyháza
• Vasi Múzeumfalu, Szombathely
• Hollókői Falumúzeum, Hollókő
• Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, Nagyvázsony
• Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, Tihany
• Emese Várispánság Szigethalom

Iceland

• Árbæjarsafn

Ireland

• Bunratty Castle and Folk Park, County Clare
• Connemara Heritage & History Centre
• Kerry Bog Village

Isle of Man

• Cregneash - The first open-air museum in the British Isles

Italy

• Monte Sannace Archaeological Park
• MuseoPassiria
• ArcheoParc Senales

Latvia

• Latvian Ethnographic Open Air Museum

Lithuania

• Rumšiškės open-air ethnographic museum

Macedonia

• Tumba Madžari

Netherlands

• Archeon - Alphen aan den Rijn, South Holland
• De Spitkeet - Harkema, Friesland
• Limburgs Openluchtmuseum Eynderhoof - Nederweert-Eind, Limburg
• Eindhoven Museum, North Brabant
• Hunebedcentrum^[2] - Borger, Drenthe
• Museum Village Orvelte, Drenthe
• Netherlands Open Air Museum - Arnhem, Gelderland
• Openluchtmuseum De Duinhuisjes - Rockanje, South Holland
• Ellert en Brammert - Schoonoord, Drenthe
• Erve Kots - Lievelde, Gelderland
• Openluchtmuseum Het Hoogeland - Warffum, Groningen
• It Damshûs - Nij Beets, Friesland
• Openluchtmuseum Ootmarsum, Overijssel
• Van Gogh Village Nuenen, North Brabant
• Zaanse Schans - Zaandam, North Holland
• Zuiderzee Museum - Enkhuizen, North Holland

Norway

• Agatunet (see Norwegian language site Agatunet)
• Bjørgan parsonage, Kvikne
• Dølmotunet, Tolga (see Norwegian language site Nordøsterdalsmuseet)
• Folldal Bygdetun - Uppigard Streitlien, Folldal (see Norwegian language site Folldal Gruver)
• Folldal Gruver, Folldal (see Norwegian language site Nordøsterdalsmuseet)
• Husantunet, Alvdal (see Norwegian language site Nordøsterdalsmuseet)
• Norsk Folkemuseum, Oslo
• Maihaugen, Lillehammer
• Os Museum - Oddentunet, Os (see Norwegian language site Nordøsterdalsmuseet)
• Rendalen Bygdemuseum, Rendalen (see Norwegian language site Nordøsterdalsmuseet)
• Trøndelag folkemuseum, Sverresborg, Trondheim
• Tylldalen Bygdetun, Tylldalen (see Norwegian language site Nordøsterdalsmuseet)
• Tynset Bygdemuseum, Tynset (see Norwegian language site Nordøsterdalsmuseet)
• Vollan Gård, Kvikne (see Norwegian language site Vollan gård)

Poland

• Biskupin Archaeological Museum
• reconstruction of early medieval Slavic wooden stronghold in Owidz
• Ethnographic open-air museum in Sanok
• Folk Architecture Museum in Olsztynek
• Kashubian Ethnographic Park in Wdzydze Kiszewskie
• Museum of the Slovinian Village in Kluki
• Muzeum Etnograficzny w Zielonej Górze z siedzibą w Ochlii in Ochla, Lubusz Voivodeship
• Muzeum Kultury Ludowej in Osiek nad Notecią
• Open-air Museum of the Łódź Wooden Architecture
• Skansen Budownictwa Ludowego Zachodniej Wielkopolski in Wolsztyn
• Skansen Etnograficzny w Russowie in Russów
• Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów
• Wielkopolski Park Etnograficzny in Dziekanowice
• Chabówka Rolling-Stock Heritage Park "Skansen" in Chabówka
• The Sądecki Ethnographic Park in Nowy Sącz
• The Opole Open-Air Museum of Rural Architecture in Opole

Romania

• ASTRA National Museum Complex
• Village Museum

Russia

Architectural-ethnographic museum "Khokhlovka", Perm Krai

• Kizhi
• Kolomenskoye
• Architectural-ethnographic museum "Khokhlovka"

Serbia

• Drvengrad (Mećavnik, Küstendorf), Mokra Gora (Zlatibor)
• Staro selo (Old Village open-air museum), Sirogojno (Zlatibor)

Slovakia

Open-air museum in Stará Ľubovňa, Slovakia.

• Banská Štiavnica
• Bardejov
• Čičmany
• Humenné
• Martin
• Nitra
• Pribylina
• Stará Ľubovňa
• Svidník
• Vlkolínec
• Vychylovka
• Zuberec – Brestová

Slovenia

• Piran
• Rogatec
• Velika Planina

Spain

• Museo de Escultura al Aire Libre de Alcalá de Henares, Alcalá de Henares
• Poble Espanyol, Barcelona

Sweden

• Jamtli, Östersund
• Kulturen, Lund
• Skansen, Stockholm

Switzerland

• Ballenberg, Brienz

Turkey

• Ihlara
• Derinkuyu Underground City
• Kaymaklı Underground City
• Göreme
• Ürgüp
• Karatepe-Aslantaş Open Air Museum

Ukraine

• Lviv Museum of Folk Architecture and Culture (see Kryvka Church)
• Open-air Museum of Architecture and Ethnography in Pyrohiv, near Kiev

United Kingdom

England

• Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, Worcestershire
• Amberley Working Museum, Amberley, West Sussex
• Beamish, North of England Open Air Museum, Beamish, County Durham
• Black Country Living Museum, Dudley, West Midlands
• Blists Hill Victorian Town, Telford, Shropshire
• Chiltern Open Air Museum, Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire
• Church Farm Museum, Agricultural museum and collection of indigenous buildings, Skegness
• Cogges Manor Farm Museum, Witney, Oxfordshire
• Little Woodham, Gosport, Hampshire
• Manor Farm Country Park, Bursledon, Hampshire
• Murton Park / Yorkshire Museum of Farming in Murton, York
• Museum of East Anglian Life, Stowmarket, Suffolk
• Rural Life Centre, Tilford, Surrey
• Ryedale Folk Museum, North York Moors, North Yorkshire
• Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Sussex
• West Yorkshire Folk Museum, in grounds of Shibden Hall, Halifax
• Wimpole Home Farm, Cambridgeshire

Scotland

• National Museum of Rural Life, East Kilbride, Lanarkshire
• The Scottish Crannog Centre near Aberfeldy, Scotland, Loch Tay
• Auchindrain – ner Inveraray, Argyll and Bute
• The Gearrannan Blackhouses, isle of Lewis
• The Skye Museum of Island Life, near Kilmuir, Skye, Isle of Skye,
• Highland Folk Museum Newtonmore
• Industrial open-air museum of New Lanark

Wales

• St Fagans National History Museum, St Fagans, Cardiff

Northern Ireland

• Ulster American Folk Park, Castleton, County Tyrone
• Ulster Folk & Transport Museum, Cultra, County Down

North America

Canada

Fortress Louisbourg, Nova Scotia

• Barkerville, British Columbia
• Ball's Falls Conservation Area, Jordan, Ontario
• Black Creek Pioneer Village, Toronto, Ontario
• Burnaby Village Museum, Burnaby, British Columbia
• Canada's Polish Kashub Heritage Museum & Skansen, Wilno, Ontario
• Doon Heritage Village, Kitchener, Ontario
• Fort Henry, Ontario
• Fort Edmonton Park, Edmonton, Alberta
• Fort Langley National Historic Site, Fort Langley, British Columbia
• Fortress of Louisbourg, Louisbourg, Nova Scotia
• Fort William Historical Park, Thunder Bay, Ontario
• Fort York, Toronto, Ontario
• Greater Sudbury Heritage Museums
• Halifax Citadel National Historic Site of Canada (Citadel Hill), Halifax, Nova Scotia
• Heritage Park Historical Village, Calgary, Alberta
• Kalyna Country, an ecomuseum
• Kawartha Settlers' Village, Bobcaygeon, Ontario
• Kings Landing Historical Settlement, Prince William, New Brunswick
• Lower Fort Garry National Historic Site, Selkirk, Manitoba
• Markham Museum, Markham, Ontario
• Mennonite Heritage Village, Steinbach, Manitoba
• Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, Midland, Ontario
• Sherbrooke Village, Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia
• Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, Alberta
• Upper Canada Village, Morrisburg, Ontario
• Village Historique Acadien, Caraquet, New Brunswick
• Village Québécois d'Antan, Drummondville, Quebec
• West Coast Railway Heritage Park, Squamish, British Columbia
• Westfield Heritage Village, Rockton, Ontario

United States

Oceania

Australia

• The Pioneer Settlement, Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia's First Open Air Museum, opened 1966.
• Old Gippstown, Moe, Victoria opened 1973
• Port Arthur, Tasmania
• Sovereign Hill, Ballarat, Victoria
• Millewa Pioneer Forest and Historical Village, Meringur, Victoria
• Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum, Warrnambool, Victoria
• Old Sydney Town, Somersby, New South Wales (now closed)
• Miles Historical Village and Museum, Miles, Queensland

New Zealand

• Ferrymead, Christchurch a recreation of a 1900 -1920 settlement in Canterbury, complete with homes, stores, shops and working steam trains
• Howick Colonial Village, Auckland, an authentic 1850's Fencible village featuring old homes, stores and community halls. There is also occasional re creation days with volunteers in period dress
• Shantytown, Greymouth, a Historic them park opened in 1971 dedicated to the 1860s to 1900s Gold rush on the West Coast. The sheltered location includes several old time stores, printing press and a small model train that goes into a gully, you can also pan for Gold and take it home with you.
• Thames and Coromandel, this scenic region outside and near Auckland features several working mine attractions, museums and historic stores dedicated to the late 19th century gold boom in the Coromandel. Thames has several old mines, the Pump Museum and School of Mines, the Karangahake gorge features historic relics in a scenic walk and Waihi and Coromandel townships also preserve their God Rush heritage.
• Gibbs Farm - private outdoor sculpture garden developed by Alan Gibbs. Located on North Island.

South America

Brazil

• Museu ao ar livre de Orleans http://www.unibave.net/index.php?a=4910
• INHOTIM https://www.inhotim.org.br/

Living transportation museums

• Brooklands in Weybridge, Elmbridge, Surrey, England (aviation and motorcar museum)
• Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park from Georgetown, Washington, D.C. to Cumberland, Maryland (heritage canal)
• Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad from Chama, New Mexico to Antonito, Colorado (heritage railway)
• Danish Tramway Museum, Denmark
• Delta Queen travels along the Mississippi River and tributaries (heritage river steamboat)
• Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum in Bremerhaven, Germany (maritime museum)
• Edaville Railroad in South Carver, Massachusetts (heritage railway)
• Hiroshima City Transportation Museum in Hiroshima, Japan (street railway museum)
• Mystic Seaport in Mystic, Connecticut (maritime museum)
• National Tramway Museum in Derbyshire, England (heritage street railway)
• Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in Rhinebeck, New York (aviation museum)
• Roscoe Village in Coshocton, Ohio (along the former Ohio & Erie Canal, nearby Monticello III canal boat)
• San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, San Francisco, California (includes a fleet of historic vessels)
• Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine (heritage railway)
• Shuttleworth Collection in Bedfordshire, England (aviation museum)
• Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Wenecja near Żnin
• Skansen Parowozownia Kościerzyna in Kościerzyna, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland (heritage railway)
• Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, Pennsylvania (heritage railway)
• Valley Railroad Company in Essex, Connecticut (heritage railway)
• White Pass and Yukon Route from Skagway, Alaska to Whitehorse, Yukon (heritage railway)
• Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway in Alna, Maine (heritage railway)
• Royal Malaysian Air Force Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (military aviation)

Ecological and environmental living museums

Some ecological living museums are zoos

• California Living Museum, Bakersfield, California, United States
• Virginia Living Museum, Newport News, Virginia, United States
• Nonsuch Island Living Museum, Bermuda
• Penang Forestry Museum, Penang, Malaysia
• Ball's Falls Conservation Area, Jordan, Ontario, Canada

References

1. Musée de plein air des Maisons comtoises
2. Hunebedcentrum

External links

• Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums
• Revista Digital Nueva Museologia Latin American Theory
• European Open-air Museums An extensive list of Open-air museums in Europe.
• America's Outdoor History Museums
• Photos from Museum of Folk Architecture and Life

Museum websites

• Open Air Museum Bokrijk Leading open-air museum of Belgium, Flanders.
• Přerov nad Labem open-air museum - photo gallery
• Valachian Ethnographic Museum in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, Czech Republic
• Hjerl Hede- An open-air museum in Denmark showing life from the early days until about 100 years ago.
• The Old Town (Den Gamle By)- An open-air museum in Denmark showing urban life.
• Jamtli – One of Sweden's largest and oldest regional open-air museums, in Östersund.
• fr:Musée de plein air de Villeneuve-d'Ascq