Artur Hazelius
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Artur Immanuel Hazelius was a Swedish teacher, scholar, folklorist and museum director. He was the founder of both the Nordic Museum and the Skansen open-air museum in Stockholm.
Artur Hazelius
Artur Hazelius. From Emil Hildebrand, Sveriges historia intill tjugonde seklet (1910)
Bust of Artur Hazelius at Skansen
Plaque at Skansen
Norsk Folkemuseum, at Bygdøy, Oslo, Norway, is a museum of cultural history with extensive collections of artifacts from all social groups and all regions of the country. It also incorporates a large
Artur Hazelius
…Skansen, which became the model for other open-air museums in Northern Europe. He got the idea after a visit to the world's first open-air museum, Norsk Folkemuseum, established near Oslo in 1881. Hazelius was close friends with Swedish pathologist Axel Key, with whom he shared a number of common interests and…
Gol Stave Church re-erected in 1885 in the open-air museum of Oscar II
Log houses in the farmstead from Østerdal
Historic buildings from Hovin and Gransherad in Telemark
Working class houses from the former settlement of Enerhaugen in Oslo