List of open-air and living history 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
  • Sonskip / Aardskip earthship open-air museum, Orania Northern Cape

Tunisia

  • 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

China

Indonesia

Israel and the Golan Heights

Japan

Malaysia

Philippines

South Korea

Taiwan

Europe

The wooden church in Drvengrad open-air museum, Serbia

Austria

Belgium

Bulgaria

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

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Roscheider Hof, Germany

Georgia

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Isle of Man

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

Italy

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

Latvia

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

Moldova

Netherlands

Dutch Open Air Museum

North Macedonia

Norway

Setesdalstunet, Vest-Agder Museum in Kristiansand

Poland

Romania

Russia

Architectural-ethnographic museum "Khokhlovka", Perm Krai

Serbia

Slovakia

Open-air museum in Stará Ľubovňa, Slovakia.

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

Torekällberget Södertälje

Switzerland

Turkey

Ukraine

United Kingdom

England

Scotland

Wales

Northern Ireland

North America

Canada

Fortress Louisbourg, Nova Scotia

Screaming Heads, Burk's Falls, Ontario

Mexico

United States

Oceania

Australia

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 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.

South America

Argentina

Brazil

  • Museu ao ar livre de Orleans [6]
  • Inhotim [7]

Suriname

Living transportation museums

Ecological and environmental living museums

Some ecological living museums are zoos

References

  1. ^ Musée de plein air des Maisons comtoises
  2. ^ Hunebedcentrum
  3. ^ https://www.gamlalinkoping.info/

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Open air museums.
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  • European Open-air Museums An extensive list of Open-air museums in Europe.
  • America's Outdoor History Museums
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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