List of open-air and living history museums

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This is a list of open-air and living history museums by country.

Africa[]

Egypt[]

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[]

  • Taman Mini Indonesia Indah

Israel and the Golan Heights[]

Japan[]

Malaysia[]

Philippines[]

South Korea[]

  • Korean Folk Village, Yongin, Gyeonggi

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[]

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
  • The Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia

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.
  • Banská Štiavnica
  • Bardejov
  • Humenné
  • Kysuce Village Museum, Nova Bystrica
  • Museum of folk architecture, Čičmany
  • Museum of Liptov Village, Pribylina
  • Museum of the Slovak Village, Múzeum Slovenskej Dediny, Martin
  • Slovak Agricultural Museum, Nitra
  • Stará Ľubovňa
  • Svidník
  • Vlkolínec
  • Zuberec – Brestová, Orava Village Museum

Slovenia[]

  • Piran
  • Rogatec
  • Velika Planina

Spain[]

Sweden[]

Torekällberget Södertälje

Switzerland[]

  • Ballenberg, Brienz

Turkey[]

Ukraine[]

  • Baturyn Fortress Citadel, Baturyn
  • Mamayeva Sloboda Cossack village Museum, Kiev
  • Open-air Museum of Architecture and Ethnography in Pyrohiv, Kiev
  • Museum of Folk Architecture and Culture, (see Kryvka Church), Lviv
  • Museum of Folk Architecture and Life, Uzhhorod
  • Museum of Folk Life and Architecture, Pereiaslav
  • National Reserve Khortytsia, Zaporizja
  • Museum "Old Village", Kolochava
  • Historical and ethnographic museum, Sarny

United Kingdom[]

England[]

Scotland[]

Wales[]

  • St Fagans National History Museum, St Fagans, Cardiff

Northern Ireland[]

North America[]

Canada[]

Fortress Louisbourg, Nova Scotia

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[]

Suriname[]

Living transportation museums[]

  • Brooklands in Weybridge, Elmbridge, Surrey, England (aviation and motorcar museum)
  • Çamlık Railway Museum (Çamlık Tren Müzesi) in Çamlık, Turkey (railway museum)
  • Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park from Georgetown, Washington, D.C. to Cumberland, Maryland (heritage canal)
  • Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad from Chama, New Mexico to Antonito, Colorado (heritage railway)
  • Danish Tramway Museum (Sporvejsmuseet Skjoldenæsholm) in Skjoldenæsholm, Denmark
  • Delta Queen travels along the Mississippi River and tributaries (heritage river steamboat)
  • Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum in Bremerhaven, Germany (maritime museum)
  • Edaville Railroad in South Carver, Massachusetts (heritage railway)
  • Hiroshima City Transportation Museum in Hiroshima, Japan (street railway museum)
  • Mystic Seaport in Mystic, Connecticut (maritime museum)
  • National Tramway Museum in Derbyshire, England (heritage street railway)
  • Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in Rhinebeck, New York (aviation museum)
  • Roscoe Village in Coshocton, Ohio (along the former Ohio & Erie Canal, nearby canal boat)
  • San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, San Francisco, California (includes a fleet of historic vessels)
  • Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine (heritage railway)
  • Shuttleworth Collection in Bedfordshire, England (aviation museum)
  • Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Wenecja near Żnin
  • Skansen Parowozownia Kościerzyna in Kościerzyna, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland (heritage railway)
  • Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, Pennsylvania (heritage railway)
  • Valley Railroad Company in Essex, Connecticut (heritage railway)
  • White Pass and Yukon Route from Skagway, Alaska to Whitehorse, Yukon (heritage railway)
  • Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway in Alna, Maine (heritage railway)
  • Royal Malaysian Air Force Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (military aviation)

Ecological and environmental living museums[]

Some ecological living museums are zoos

References[]

External links[]

Museum websites
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