Frilandsmuseet ( en, Open Air Museum) is an

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on the northern outskirts of

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

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. The museum is located in

Lyngby Kongens Lyngby (, Danish for "the King's Heather Town"; short form Lyngby) is the seat and commercial centre of Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality in the northern suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. Lyngby Hovedgade is a busy shopping street and the site of ...

on Kongevejen in

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. The museum can be reached directly by bus number 184 from

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in central Copenhagen or by S-train to

Sorgenfri station Sorgenfri station is a station on the Hillerød radial of the S-train network in Copenhagen, Denmark. It serves Sorgenfri and the southern part of Virum. It is located at Hummeltoftevej 51 and is named for the nearby Sorgenfri palace. History ...

Buildings

Opened in 1897, it moved to its present location in 1901. Covering 40

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, it is one of the largest and oldest open-air museums in the world. It is a department under the

Danish National Museum The National Museum of Denmark (Nationalmuseet) in Copenhagen is Denmark's largest museum of cultural history, comprising the histories of Danish and foreign cultures, alike. The museum's main building is located a short distance from Strøget ...

and is part of the research done on agricultural history. The museum features more than 100 buildings from rural environments and dating from 1650-1950. All buildings are original and have been moved piece by piece from their original location save a windmill that is still found in its original location. The museum contains rural buildings from all regions of Denmark, including many of the small and remote Danish islands including

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and

Læsø Læsø ("Isle of Hlér") is the largest island in the North Sea bay of Kattegat, and is located off the northeast coast of the Jutland Peninsula, the Danish mainland. Læsø is also the name of the municipality (Danish, '' kommune'') on that is ...

. Buildings include a

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from the island of

thatched with

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. Represented are also buildings from the

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, as well as the former Danish possessions of

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and

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and

Halland Halland () is one of the traditional provinces of Sweden (''landskap''), on the western coast of Götaland, southern Sweden. It borders Västergötland, Småland, Scania and the sea of Kattegat. Until 1645 and the Second Treaty of Brömsebro ...

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. The distribution demonstrates how life has been adapted to regional living conditions and availability of materials. Represented in the collection are also all social living conditions, from a

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to a

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, different types of buildings like farms, mills and workshops, and numerous professions. The museum include six mills including a

post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. Its defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single vertical post, around which it can be turned to bring the sails into the wind. All p ...

from 1662. Some of the mills are regularly operated by a guild of volunteers. The grounds of the museum also features 25 historic gardens and cultural landscapes and livestock of old Danish breeds. The gardens and animals are displayed in connection with the socially and geographically corresponding buildings.

Gallery

Image:Frilandsmuseet -Træskomager, Kirke-Søby.png, ''TræskoMaker's House,

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Image:Frilandsmuseet - Sdr. Sejerslev.jpg, Farmhouse from Sønder Sejerslev Image:Frilandsmuseet - Borre, tømrer- og snedkerværksted.jpg, Woodworker's workshop from Borre on

Møn Møn () is an island in south-eastern Denmark. Until 1 January 2007, it was a municipality in its own right but it is now part of the municipality of Vordingborg, after merging with the former municipalities of Langebæk, Præstø, and Vordingbo ...

Image:Frilandsmuseet - Gården fra Lundager, Fyn.jpg, Farmhouse from Lundager on

Funen Funen ( da, Fyn, ), with an area of , is the third-largest island of Denmark, after Zealand and Vendsyssel-Thy. It is the 165th-largest island in the world. It is located in the central part of the country and has a population of 469,947 as of ...

Image:Ducks by dam at Frilandsmuseet, Lyngby 5046462437 l.jpg, Forge from

Ørbæk Ørbæk is a town in central Denmark, located in Nyborg municipality on the island of Funen. Ørbæk was until 2007 the seat of Ørbæk Municipality. History Ørbæk was first mentioned in 1231 as 'Ørbæc', which was the name of the brook that ...

Image:Gård på Frilandsmuseet i Lyngby.JPG, Marsh farm from

Sønderjylland Southern Jutland ( da, Sønderjylland; German: Südjütland) is the name for the region south of the Kongeå in Jutland, Denmark and north of the Eider (river) in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The region north of the Kongeå is called da, Nørr ...

Image:Frilandsmuseet-fanø.jpg, Skipper's house from

Fanø Fanø () is a Danish island in the North Sea off the coast of southwestern Denmark, and is the very northernmost of the Danish Wadden Sea Islands. Fanø municipality is the municipality (Danish, '' kommune'') that covers the island and its seat ...

Image:Gårdsplads, Halland.jpg, Farmhouse from Jalland

References

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Gallery

See also

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