List of open-air and living history museums

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

Africa edit

Egypt edit

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

South Africa edit

Worcester Museum (Klein plasie open-air museum), Worcester Western Cape
Sonskip / Aardskip earthship open-air museum, Orania Northern Cape

Tunisia edit

Djerba (Djerbahood).
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)
Oudhref (Open-air village museum), Governorate of Gabes

Asia edit

China edit

Indonesia edit

Taman Mini Indonesia Indah

Israel and the Golan Heights edit

Taiwan edit

Europe edit

The wooden church in Drvengrad open-air museum, Serbia

Austria edit

Belgium edit

Atlantic Wall open-air museum (Atlantikwall Openluchtmuseum), (Ostend, West Flanders)
Middelheim Open Air Sculpture Museum, (Antwerp)
Openluchtmuseum Bachten de Kupe, Alveringem, West Flanders
Bokrijk open-air museum (Openluchtmuseum Bokrijk)[1], (near Genk, Province of Limburg)
Museum of Rural Life in Wallonia (Musée de la Vie rurale en Wallonie), Saint-Hubert

Bulgaria edit

Etar Architectural-Ethnographic Complex, Gabrovo

Czech Republic edit

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

Hanácké open air museum (Hanácké Skanzen), Příkazy
Museum of Folk Architecture in Kouřim (Muzeum lidových staveb v Kouřimi), Kouřim
Polabské muzeum, Přerov nad Labem— the oldest open air museum in Central and Eastern Europe
Skanzen Strážnice, Strážnice
Skanzen Vysoký Chlumec, Vysoký Chlumec
Skanzen Veselý kopec (museum of folk architecture in Veselý Kopec), Vysočina
Wallachian Open Air Museum (Wallachian Ethnographic Museum), Rožnov pod Radhoštěm

Denmark edit

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

Estonia edit

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 edit

France edit

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

Germany edit

Roscheider Hof, Germany

Bauernhausmuseum Amerang (Amerang Open Air Museum), Bavaria
Rüdersdorf Museum Park [2], Brandenburg
Bavarian Forest Museum Village, Tittling
Black Forest Open Air Museum "Vogtsbauernhof", 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
Düppel museum village, Berlin
Freilichtmuseum Glentleiten|Glentleiten Open Air Museum, Bavaria
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
Lower Bavarian Open-Air Museums, Finsterau and Massing
Mödlareuth village, Bavaria and Thuringia
Oerlinghausen Archaeological Open-Air Museum (Das Archäologische Freilichtmuseum Oerlinghausen), Oerlinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Ore Mountain Toy Museum, Seiffen, Saxony
Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen, Unteruhldingen, Baden-Württemberg
Rhineland-Palatinate Open Air Museum Bad Sobernheim (Rheinland-Pfälzisches Freilichtmuseum 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 ( Schwäbisches Bauernhofmuseum Illerbeuren), Illerbeuren, Bavaria
Winsen Museum Farm, Winsen (Aller), Lower Saxony

Georgia edit

Tbilisi Open Air Museum of Ethnography, Tbilisi

Hungary edit

Hungarian open air museum (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 [3]

Iceland edit

Árbæjarsafn

Ireland edit

Isle of Man edit

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

Italy edit

Museo a Cielo Aperto Ulàssai (Open-Air Museum Ulàssai)
Museodiffuso
Poggibonsi Archaeodrome - Open Air Museum
Bostel di Rotzo - Castelletto di Rotzo, Vicenza

Latvia edit

A threshing barn built in 1730 in Rizgas, Vestiena Parish, Vidzeme and the first building to be transported and re-assembled at The Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia in 1928

Lithuania edit

Europos Parkas – museum of worlds contemporary art set in nature
Rumšiškės open-air ethnographic museum

Moldova edit

Village Museum, Chișinău

Netherlands edit

Dutch Open Air Museum

Dutch Open Air Museum - Arnhem, Gelderland
Archeon - Alphen aan den Rijn, South Holland
De Spitkeet - Harkema, Friesland
Limburgs Openluchtmuseum Eynderhoof - Nederweert-Eind, Limburg
Eindhoven Museum - Eindhoven, North Brabant
Hunebedcentrum^[2] - Borger, Drenthe
Museum Village Orvelte - Orvelte, Drenthe
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 - Ootmarsum Overijssel
Van Gogh Village Nuenen - Nuenen North Brabant
Zaanse Schans - Zaandam, North Holland
Zuiderzee Museum - Enkhuizen, North Holland

North Macedonia edit

Tumba Madžari

Norway edit

Setesdalstunet, Vest-Agder Museum in Kristiansand

Agatunet (see Norwegian language site Agatunet)
Bjørgan parsonage, Kvikne
Dølmotunet, Tolga (see North Østerdalen Museums)
Folldal Bygdetun - Uppigard Streitlien, Folldal (see North Østerdalen Museums)
Folldal Gruver, Folldal (see Norwegian language site Folldal Gruver)
The Heiberg Collection, Kaupanger (see Norwegian language site De Heibergske Samlinger)
Husantunet, Alvdal (see North Østerdalen Museums)
Norwegian Museum of Cultural History, Oslo
Maihaugen, Lillehammer
Os Museum - Oddentunet, Os (see North Østerdalen Museums)
Romsdal Museum, Molde
Rendalen Village Museum, Rendalen (see North Østerdalen Museums)
Trøndelag folkemuseum, Sverresborg, Trondheim
Tylldalen Bygdetun, Tylldalen (see North Østerdalen Museums)
Tynset Bygdemuseum, Tynset (see North Østerdalen Museums)
Vest-Agder Museum, Kristiansand
Vollan Gård, Kvikne (see Norwegian language site Vollan gård)

Poland edit

Biskupin Archaeological Museum (Muzeum Archeologiczne w Biskupinie), about 90 kilometres (56 miles) northeast of Poznań
Grodzisko Owidz|reconstruction of early medieval Slavic wooden stronghold, Owidz
Ethnographic open-air museum in Sanok (Muzeum Budownictwa Ludowego w Sanoku), Sanok
Folk Architecture Museum (Park Etnograficzny w Olsztynku), Olsztynek
Kashubian Ethnographic Park (Kaszubski Park Etnograficzny), Wdzydze Kiszewskie
Kujawy and Dobrzyń Land Ethnographic Park, Kłóbka
Museum of the Slovincian Village, Kluki
Muzeum Kultury Ludowej w Kolbuszowej, Kolbuszowa
Muzeum Etnograficzny w Zielonej Górze z siedzibą w Ochlii, Ochla, Lubusz Voivodeship
Muzeum Kultury Ludowej, Osiek nad Notecią
Muzeum Wsi Lubelskiej w Lublinie, Lublin
Muzeum Wsi Mazowieckiej w Sierpcu, Sierpc
Muzeum Wsi Radomskiej w Radomiu, Radom
Nadwiślański Park Etnograficzny, Wygiełzów
Open-air Museum of the Łódź Wooden Architecture
Orawski Park Etnograficzny, Zubrzyca Górna
Podlaskie Museum of Folk Culture, Wasilków
Skansen Budownictwa Ludowego Zachodniej Wielkopolski, Wolsztyn
Skansen Etnograficzny w Russowie, Russów
Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park, Chorzów
Ethnographic park of Dziekanowice, Dziekanowice [4]
Railway Museum Chabowka, Chabówka Rolling-Stock Heritage Park "Skansen", Chabowka
The Sądecki Ethnographic Park, Nowy Sącz
The Opole Open-Air Museum of Rural Architecture, Opole

Romania edit

ASTRA National Museum Complex, Sibiu
Reșița Steam Locomotive Museum, Reșița
Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography, Cluj-Napoca
Village Museum "Dimitrie Gusti" - Muzeul Național al Satului "Dimitrie Gusti", Bucharest
Banat Village Museum - Muzeul Satului Bănățean, Timișoara, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banat_Village_Museum, https://muzeulsatuluibanatean.ro/
Museum of folk art and ethnography - Muzeul Satului din Baia Mare, Baia Mare
Village Museum - Muzeul Satului Petrești Vrancea, Petrești Vrancea
Museum "Haszmann Pál", Cernatu de Sus
Museum of folk architecture - Muzeul Arhitecturii Populare, Gorj
Ethnographic museum - Muzeul Etnografic, Reghin
Maramureș Village Museum, Sighetu Marmației
Bucovina Village Museum - Muzeul Satului Bucovinean, Suceava
Ednomon - Virtual Museum of Ethnographical Monuments in Romanian Open Air Museums
Goleşti Viticulture And Tree Growing Museum, Golești

Russia edit

Architectural-ethnographic museum "Khokhlovka", Perm Krai

Serbia edit

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

Slovakia edit

Open-air museum in Stará Ľubovňa, Slovakia.

Banská Štiavnica
Bardejov
Humenné
Kysuce Village Museum, Nova Bystrica
Museum of folk architecture, Čičmany
Museum of Liptov Village, Pribylina
Museum of the Slovak Village, Múzeum Slovenskej Dediny, Martin
Slovak Agricultural Museum, Nitra
Stará Ľubovňa
Svidník
Vlkolínec
Zuberec – Brestová, Orava Village Museum

Slovenia edit

Spain edit

Sweden edit

Torekällberget Södertälje

Gamla Linköping Linköping^[3]

Switzerland edit

Ballenberg, Brienz

Turkey edit

Ukraine edit

Baturyn Fortress Citadel, Baturyn
Mamayeva Sloboda Cossack village Museum, Kyiv
Open-air Museum of Architecture and Ethnography in Pyrohiv, Kyiv
Museum of Folk Architecture and Culture, (see Kryvka Church), Lviv
Museum of Folk Architecture and Life, Uzhhorod
Museum of Folk Life and Architecture, Pereiaslav
National Reserve Khortytsia, Zaporizja
Museum "Old Village", Kolochava
Historical and ethnographic museum, Sarny

United Kingdom edit

England edit

Anne of Cleves House, Lewes
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
Butser Ancient Farm, Chalton, Hampshire
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
Milestones Museum, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Morwellham Quay, Devon
Murton Park / Yorkshire Museum of Farming in Murton, York
Museum of East Anglian Life, Stowmarket, Suffolk
National Coal Mining Museum for England, Wakefield, West Yorkshire
Rural Life Living Museum, Tilford, Surrey
Ryedale Folk Museum, North York Moors, North Yorkshire
Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Sussex
West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village, Suffolk
West Yorkshire Folk Museum, in grounds of Shibden Hall, Halifax
Wimpole Home Farm, Cambridgeshire
York Castle Museum, York

Scotland edit

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

Wales edit

St Fagans National History Museum, St Fagans, Cardiff

Northern Ireland edit

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

North America edit

Canada edit

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
Discovery Harbour, Penetanguishene, 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
Highland Village Museum, Iona, 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

Screaming Heads, Burk's Falls, Ontario

Mexico edit

Parque-Museo La Venta, Villahermosa, Tabasco

United States edit

Oceania edit

Australia edit

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
Old Tailem Town, Tailem Bend, South Australia
Australiana Pioneer Village, Wilberforce, NSW

New Zealand edit

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 1850s 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.