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northern museum and skansen. 479
— proved for the public to be the most instructive of the entire motley
contents of the Museum. Thus the thought arose in the mind of the
founder, of incorporating with the Museum entire buildings together with
their equipment; and it was to solve this problem that the open-air
museum, which bears the name of Skansen, was founded in the year
mentioned. But besides this object, several other advantages were
gained, among them a suitable place for exhibiting such objects as it
was difficult to house within the walls of an ordinary museum. Yet even
this was not enough. The open-iair museum became a place where living
pictures from the nature and folk-life of the Scandinavian North could
be exhibited. A uniquely planned zoological garden of the North and, to
a certain extent, a botanical garden, although entirely unrestricted, have
been laid out in Skansen, and on certain occasions every year,
national-festivals are got up there, which give the public an opportunity to become
acquainted through actual and living object-lessons, with the Swedish
people in times past and present.
Of the manifold attractions of Skansen, we may here mention some particular
ones. Among the objects exhibited, special attention should be called to the
peasant-cottages and other buildings, which have been moved to Skansen from
different places, and which not only by their furniture and fittings, but also
View from Skansen.
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