!!!Freilichtmuseen

Open-air Museums, premises on which historical evidence of the way of 
life and architecture, mainly from agricultural areas, has been 
collected and exhibited. The museums display original pieces 
(buildings, interiors, tools) which have been transported from their 
original locations. Predecessors of open-air museums were 
"ethnographical villages" at the World Fairs and national fairs at the 
turn of the century. The first open-air museum in Europe was built in 
1891 by A. Hazelius in Skansen (Stockholm); it was not until after 
World War II, and after some failures, that the first open-air museums 
were established in Austria. In the Austrian open-air museum in  
Stuebing near Graz (built in 1962) objects from all of Austria's 
cultivated areas are on display.

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Other open-air museums in Austria: Carinthia: Maria Saal (1952, the 
first Austrian open-air museum situated on the Kreuzlbergl mountain in 
Klagenfurt, since 1959/1969 in Maria Saal); Burgenland: Bad 
Tatzmannsdorf, 1967; Upper Austria: Mondseer Rauchhaus, 1960, St. 
Florian-Samesleiten, 1978; Tirol: Kramsach, 1974; Salzburg: 
Grossgmain, 1978; Lower Austria: Niedersulz, 1979.

!Literature
V. H. Poettler, Geschichte und Realisierung der Idee des 
Freilichtmuseums in Oesterreich, in: Oesterreichische Zeitschrift fuer 
Volkskunde 94/95, 1991.


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