DOI issue:
No. 93 (December, 1900)
DOI article:Bröchner, Georg: Open-air museums for London: a suggestion
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19786#0184
Open-Air Museums
William of Prussia had the old Vaug stave
church removed from Thelemarken to Briicken-
berg in Germany, and re-erected there. The
present King of Sweden and Norway, in 1881,
had the Gol stave church removed from Halling-
dale to Bygdo, near Christiania, and afterwards,
by gift or purchase, became possessed of other old
buildings, which were likewise removed to and re-
built at Bygdo. Also the Christiania Corporation
has secured a couple of old buildings, and they are
now at Frognersatesen, close to Christiania. Quite
another ten years, however, were allowed to lapse
before the first Swedish open-air museum was
opened. In Denmark, similar plans had been
under consideration for several years, Mr. Bernhard
Olsen being their able and indefatigable advocate;
but it is only during the present year, that a
move has been made in earnest, it having been
deemed necessary to again pull down and remove
to another locality a couple of old buildings erected
in the grounds of the Castle of Rosenborg in the
year 1897. In Christiania, as in Copenhagen, the
building of an open-air museum is at present
progressing.
It was as far back as the year 1872 that Dr.
Artur Hazelius, on a tour in Dalarna, by a few
purchases laid the foundation of the now world-
famous Northern Museum at Skansen. Dr.
Hazelius was, and is, an enthusiast, but an enthu-
siast with an iron will, for whom obstacles never
seemed to exist, and who made up his mind to
give his whole life to the realisation of his dream ;
and he has succeeded far beyond his most ambi-
tious dreams. Little by little the collection grew,
until, in the year 1880, Dr. Hazelius presented it to
the Swedish nation, the museum becoming an
independent, self-contained institution, with a
Board of its own, Dr. Hazelius taking upon himself
extensive financial liabilities. The same year a
" Society for the Advancement of the Northern
Museum " was formed, the prospectus being signed
by more than a hundred men of mark in science,
art, and politics. After the year 1890, when a
Swedish nobleman presented some land to the
museum, and an additional site at Skansen having
been bought the following year, a new departure
took place in the development of the museum, it
now becoming possible to realise the plan of an
open-air museum, for which purchases of old
interesting houses had already commenced five or
six years previously. Even before the end of 1891
another purchase of land took place, and in subse-
162
THE HASJO STEEPLE, SKANSEN, STOCKHOLM
William of Prussia had the old Vaug stave
church removed from Thelemarken to Briicken-
berg in Germany, and re-erected there. The
present King of Sweden and Norway, in 1881,
had the Gol stave church removed from Halling-
dale to Bygdo, near Christiania, and afterwards,
by gift or purchase, became possessed of other old
buildings, which were likewise removed to and re-
built at Bygdo. Also the Christiania Corporation
has secured a couple of old buildings, and they are
now at Frognersatesen, close to Christiania. Quite
another ten years, however, were allowed to lapse
before the first Swedish open-air museum was
opened. In Denmark, similar plans had been
under consideration for several years, Mr. Bernhard
Olsen being their able and indefatigable advocate;
but it is only during the present year, that a
move has been made in earnest, it having been
deemed necessary to again pull down and remove
to another locality a couple of old buildings erected
in the grounds of the Castle of Rosenborg in the
year 1897. In Christiania, as in Copenhagen, the
building of an open-air museum is at present
progressing.
It was as far back as the year 1872 that Dr.
Artur Hazelius, on a tour in Dalarna, by a few
purchases laid the foundation of the now world-
famous Northern Museum at Skansen. Dr.
Hazelius was, and is, an enthusiast, but an enthu-
siast with an iron will, for whom obstacles never
seemed to exist, and who made up his mind to
give his whole life to the realisation of his dream ;
and he has succeeded far beyond his most ambi-
tious dreams. Little by little the collection grew,
until, in the year 1880, Dr. Hazelius presented it to
the Swedish nation, the museum becoming an
independent, self-contained institution, with a
Board of its own, Dr. Hazelius taking upon himself
extensive financial liabilities. The same year a
" Society for the Advancement of the Northern
Museum " was formed, the prospectus being signed
by more than a hundred men of mark in science,
art, and politics. After the year 1890, when a
Swedish nobleman presented some land to the
museum, and an additional site at Skansen having
been bought the following year, a new departure
took place in the development of the museum, it
now becoming possible to realise the plan of an
open-air museum, for which purchases of old
interesting houses had already commenced five or
six years previously. Even before the end of 1891
another purchase of land took place, and in subse-
162
THE HASJO STEEPLE, SKANSEN, STOCKHOLM