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48(5 iv. education and mental culture.
Lappa in Skansen.
by their immediate surroundings, present the most faithful pictures possible from
the provinces where they originate; and at the same time, seen as a whole,
show the principal features in the history of Swedish peasant dwellings. Besides
a whole Lapplanders’ camp, with Lapps, dogs, and a reindeer-vard, we find here
the very primitive Swedish charcoal-burner’s hut, and even the unique
"Slog-boden" (shed for hay-makers at the forest-marshes), the primitive hillside hut,
half embedded in the ground; the mountain dairy, with all the very primitive
buildings appertaining thereto; the more developed peasant’s house from Dalarne
(Dalecarlia), and the modest log-cabin from Västergötland; a whole farm with
all its adjacent outhouses with a mill from Halland, and a similar farm enclosing
a barton from Skåne, with large quantities of indoor and outdoor effects; a smithy
from the ancient "Iron country" ; the peasant homes from Blekinge and Hälsingland
testifying of oldworld opulence, and the rich miner’s home (Laxbrostugan) from
the Västmanland mining-district. We also find very picturesque belfries from
Jämtland and Östergötland, and a storehouse, "fatbur", from a gentleman’s
country seat in the latter province in the fifteenth century (a copy), and several
other farm buildings, such as a granary from Dalarne, a provision-house from
Småland, a mill from Västergötland, etc. In the above mentioned large
storehouse there is preserved a very interesting collection of old agricultural
implements, and not far off we see ancient vehicles and boats besides. — Among the
arrangements for the zoological collections, the polar bear grotto and the
eagle-cage deserve special notice. — The open-air museum of Skansen, situated on
a spot especially favoured by nature, and rich in varying and striking views,
has become a very popular promenade, and is beautified by many expensive
plantations.
During the quinquenniums of 1876—80 to 1896—1900 the Northern Museum
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