The Romsdal Museum ( Norwegian : Romsdalsmuseet ) is a museum in the Romsdal district of Møre og Romsdal county, Norway . The museum is based in Molde Municipality , but it has sites all over the region.
5-453: The museum was founded by Peter Tønder Solemdal (1876-1963) in 1912, and is one of the largest and most extensive folk museums in Norway. In addition, the museum has a library and several archives for prints, text, and photographs. In 1928, the museum was opened to the public. In the middle of the field is the old "Isdammen", previously used for ice production. The area also contains a lake, which
10-621: A unique picture of traditional Sweden. Skansen became a model for other open-air establishments in Northern Europe. The National Folk Museum of Korea was established in 1945 and provides a history of the Korean people from prehistory to the early 20th century, with over 98,000 artefacts housed in three main exhibition halls. It includes open-air exhibits, such as replicas of typical village structures, grinding mills, huts for rice storage, and pits where kimchi pots were stored over winter. Among
15-584: Is very popular with local birds, and a stage that is used during Moldejazz , the Molde International Jazz Festival. Several houses are included in a guided tour: Tresfjord Cottage, Holt Cottage, Hammervoll house, and Erik Pålgarden Garden. Krona is the Romsdal Museum's new museum building. In addition to the art collection and archives of historical photographs, the building houses a permanent exhibition that tells about living conditions in
20-525: The late 19th century. The Swedish folklorist Artur Hazelius founded what was to become the Nordic Museum in 1873 to house an ethnographic collection of peasant furniture, clothes, tools, toys and other objects. He later set up the open-air museum Skansen in Stockholm in 1891, where he erected about 150 houses and farmsteads from all over Sweden, transporting them piece by piece and rebuilding them to provide
25-654: The region through different times. 62°44′22″N 7°09′02″E / 62.7395°N 7.1506°E / 62.7395; 7.1506 Folk museum A folk museum is a museum that deals with folk culture and heritage . Such museums cover local life in rural communities. A folk museum typically displays historical objects that were used as part of the people's everyday lives. Examples of such objects include clothes and tools. Many folk museums are also open-air museums and some cover rural history . The concept of open-air museums originated in Scandinavia in
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