DOI issue:
No. 389 (August 1925)
DOI article:Bröchner, Georg: Open-air museums for London, [2]: a suggestion
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21403#0096
OPEN-AIR MUSEUMS FOR LONDON.—II
Tudor Court House and market," Efforts
to save this historic building were unavail-
ing, but complete sketches and photo-
graphs of a number of details were taken
in time, all the woodwork, masonry,
etc., have been numbered and documented,
so that the building can be re-erected in
its original form. Surely here is a fit
and deserving candidate for London's
future open-air museum. Another exam-
ple : I saw some months ago in the
High Street of an East Riding town a
very ancient and very interesting house,
the upper stories projecting to a marked
degree, the entire structure evidently
abandoned, uninhabited, cobwebbed and
covered with thick layers of dust, a picture
of desolation, no use to any one as and
where it stands—if it still stands—but
well worthy of a place in that museum
which surely must come some day.
Crosby Hall has not fared so badly, and
shows with what admirable results old
interesting buildings can be removed and
re-erected. But what about Temple
Bar i a a 0 a 0 0
By all means let old buildings of mark
and merit remain where they were meant to
be, if they can be decently preserved and
maintained there—it is where this cannot
be done that a haven of refuge is needed.
The cult of the open-air folk museum
is literally confined to the Scandinavian
countries, and it is only in these that it
has been realised what a splendid field
for truly patriotic work such museums
offer. In each of these countries the
initiative has been taken, the movement
started and carried on to a successful
consummation by one or two men fired
with fervent zeal and enthusiasm, pos-
sessed of an untiring energy, and of rare
unselfish generosity and munificence. It
is these few men who have gathered
together these national treasures and seen
to their being installed in such befitting
elucidating fashion, often amidst enchant-
ing environs. 0000
INTERIOR FROM MORA (MORA-
STUGAN), DALECARLIA. (Skansen
Open - Air Museum, Stockholm)
90
Tudor Court House and market," Efforts
to save this historic building were unavail-
ing, but complete sketches and photo-
graphs of a number of details were taken
in time, all the woodwork, masonry,
etc., have been numbered and documented,
so that the building can be re-erected in
its original form. Surely here is a fit
and deserving candidate for London's
future open-air museum. Another exam-
ple : I saw some months ago in the
High Street of an East Riding town a
very ancient and very interesting house,
the upper stories projecting to a marked
degree, the entire structure evidently
abandoned, uninhabited, cobwebbed and
covered with thick layers of dust, a picture
of desolation, no use to any one as and
where it stands—if it still stands—but
well worthy of a place in that museum
which surely must come some day.
Crosby Hall has not fared so badly, and
shows with what admirable results old
interesting buildings can be removed and
re-erected. But what about Temple
Bar i a a 0 a 0 0
By all means let old buildings of mark
and merit remain where they were meant to
be, if they can be decently preserved and
maintained there—it is where this cannot
be done that a haven of refuge is needed.
The cult of the open-air folk museum
is literally confined to the Scandinavian
countries, and it is only in these that it
has been realised what a splendid field
for truly patriotic work such museums
offer. In each of these countries the
initiative has been taken, the movement
started and carried on to a successful
consummation by one or two men fired
with fervent zeal and enthusiasm, pos-
sessed of an untiring energy, and of rare
unselfish generosity and munificence. It
is these few men who have gathered
together these national treasures and seen
to their being installed in such befitting
elucidating fashion, often amidst enchant-
ing environs. 0000
INTERIOR FROM MORA (MORA-
STUGAN), DALECARLIA. (Skansen
Open - Air Museum, Stockholm)
90