4K Virtual Tour - Open Air Museum - A walk trough 350 years of historie in Danish farmer folklore👨‍🌾

Old Denmark - Open Air Museum is one of the oldest and largest open-air museums in the world where you can experience farms, cottages, and mills from Denmark, Sweden, and the Faroe Islands. Each building has been carefully dismantled, moved and reassembled in beautiful nature surroundings. Located 30 minutes from central Copenhagen.

At the Open-air museum, you can take a step back in time and walk through fully furnished homes, meet the adorable farm animals and talk to the museum peasants about life in the olden days.

The open-air museum was established in 1897, and started modestly with quite a few buildings in a corner of the King's Garden in Copenhagen.

As early as 1901, the space felt cramped, and the Frilandsmuseet's founder, Bernhard Olsen, bought a piece of land on 12 acres of land around the old Fuglevad Windmill in Sorgenfri.

Bernhard Olsen was all his life preoccupied with popular communication and popular and national history. He was a trained theatre painter and also possessed a great organizational and entrepreneurial talent.

After a few years in the Danish theatre world, he was for a number of years director of Tivoli in Copenhagen. He developed and refined the gardens' amusements and the broad, popular program for which Tivoli is still known.

In 1885 he became co-founder of the Danish Folk Museum. The museum gave itself the task of collecting and saving Danish folk and peasant culture before it was too late.

The Folk Museum's exhibitions were based, among other things, on the principles of Panoptikon, Denmark's first wax museum. Here, Bernhard Olsen had played with scenery and panoramas from the Copenhagen and Danish everyday life.

The Folk Museum collected and disseminated the Danish folklore and peasant history to a wide, ordinary audience with the help of beautiful installations and scenarios with decorated living rooms.

The open-air museum was a natural extension of the Folkemuseet's activities. By moving and arranging real farm buildings, people could get even closer to history - you could visit history and walk around it, and the old things could be seen in real and natural surroundings.

For Bernhard Olsen, the buildings were also in themselves important testimonies of Danish cultural and folk history. The buildings were sources of Danish or regional identity, and sources of Denmark's technical and civilized development.

From the beginning, buildings were found and moved to the Open Air Museum. On the whole, the studies of the buildings before they were moved are one of the museum's most important research efforts.

The principle of arranging the buildings with objects in historical landscapes to create overall images is still the cornerstone of the Open-Air Museum's exhibition principle. Exactly as it was for Bernhard Olsen.

The museum opening hours is Tuesday - Sunday 10.00 - 16.00

Frilandsmuseet
Kongevejen 100
2800 Kongens Lyngby
(+45) 41 20 64 55
[email protected]

Read more about Open Air Museum in the link below ⬇️

ℹ️ https://natmus.dk/museer-og-slotte/fr...

📅 Recording Date: August 31, 2021

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