Member Museums

Organization – Universalmuseum Joanneum

Address – Enzenbach 32, 8114 Stübing, Austria

Website – www.museum-joanneum.at/freilichtmuseum

Address – Hasenweg 1, 5084 Großgmain, Austria

Website – https://www.freilichtmuseum.com/en/visitors-information.html

Address – Am Schmalzberg 1, 2224 Niedersulz, Austria

Website – www.museumsdorf.at/de

Bokrijk is the open air museum on the culture of daily life in Flanders (Belgium). The museum is situated in a central park of +500 ha and houses a unique mix of collections: 124 historic buildings, 40.000 objects, a wide range of documentary collections, intangible heritage and last but not least regional varieties of fauna and flora.

The museum focuses mainly on craftsmanship, building and living culture, the culture of eating and drinking and of rituals and traditions. Typical for a visit to Bokrijk are: the historic interiors, the contemporary craftsmanship locations and craftspeople in action, the Living History anno 1900, the Sixties (1958-1973), the hands-on activities in the Atelier/Play/Building Barns, animals large and small and the warm welcome by our mediators.
In 1966 the AEOM was launched at Bokrijk!

Address – Bokrijklaan 1, 3600 Genk, Belgium

Website – https://bokrijk.be/nl

Address – 144, Gen. Derozhinski Str., 5309 Gabrovo, Bulgaria

Website – https://etar.bg/

The National Open Air Museum affiliates four institutions. Mission is to document, protect and preserve more than two hundred years in the history of vernacular architecture and describe the way of life of people living in the countryside. Each of these institutions reflects the culture of a different region and is therefore quite unique.

Address – Palackého 147, 756 61 Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, Czechia

Website – www.nmvp.cz

The open-air museum in Strážnice represents the building style and the way of life in the southeastern part of the Czech Republic. Apart from the presentation of clay and wooden vernacular buildings, it focuses on wine growing, which has been typical for this region for centuries. Thematic activities help visitors get familiar with traditional crafts, agriculture, customs and other folk traditions. The open-air museum is part of a larger organization – the National Institute of Folk Culture, which also specializes in research and safeguarding intangible cultural heritage and organizes the largest international folklore festival in the country. The open-air museum serves as an experimental laboratory of traditional technologies and application of research results.

Organization – National Institute of Folk Culture

Address – Zámek 672, 696 62 Strážnice, Czechia

Website – www.nulk.cz, www.skanzenstraznice.

Visiting Den Gamle By is a journey through 400 years of daily life. The journey starts today with a rainbow family and includes stops along the way in the 1970s welfare society, the 1920s industrialisation and back to the 17th and 18th centuries market town.
The museum has 100 historical houses, selected collections and is also museum for the city of Aarhus.
In Den Gamle By you become one with history and you can smell, taste and feel your way forward exploring the streets and gardens, look into people´s homes and strike a bargain in one of the historical shops.
We believe that museums, to keep their relevance must address some of the challenges of modern society. According to this ambition we have programs for people with dementia and for kids and youngsters with mental disabilities.

Address – Viborgvej 2, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark

Website – www.dengamleby.dk

Address – Kongevejen 100, Lyngby 2800, Denmark

Website – https://frilandsmuseet.dk/

Organization – Museum Odense

Address – Sejerskovvej 20, 5260 Odense, Denmark

Website – denfynskelandsby.dk/

Address – Hjerlhedevej 14, 7830 Vinderup, Denmark

Website – https://hjerlhede.dk/

Address – Randersvej 4, 8963 Auning, Denmark

Website – https://detgroennemuseum.dk/

The Estonian Open Air Museum on the territory of the former Rocca al Mare summer estate exhibits a valuable collection of Estonian vernacular architecture from the past three hundred years.

As located on Estonian landscape, the 13 farms of the museum, mills and net sheds are arranged according to old village types.
Public buildings like the school, the chapel, the inn, the village shop and the fire station constitute a small village centre. Newest expositions are Soviet Kolkhoz house from 1960s and modern prefabricated wooden house from 2019. In May 2024 we opened a new permanent family-oriented playful hands-on exposition “Farm Kid`s World” to bring children out of the virtual world into nature and teach them eco-friendly thinking by introducing an ordinary day on an Estonian farm.

Address – Vabaõhumuuseumi tee 12, 13521 Tallinn, Estonia

Website – https://evm.ee/

Address – Satakunnankatu 49, 33230 Tampere, Finland

Website – https://www.amurinmuseokortteli.fi/

Organization – The National Museum of Finland

Address – Seurasaari, 00250 Helsinki, Finland

Website – https://www.kansallismuseo.fi/fi/seurasaarenulkomuseo

Organization – Georgian National Museum

Address – 25, M. Berdzenishvili Str., Tbilisi, Georgia

Website – https://museum.ge/index.php?m=350&lang=eng&museum=46&lng=eng

Address – Bether Straße 6, 49661 Cloppenburg, Germany

Website – https://museumsdorf.de/

Address – Bahnhofstraße 19, 97650 Fladungen, Germany

Website – https://freilandmuseum-fladungen.de/

Address – Eisweiherweg 1, 91438 Bad Windsheim, Germany

Website – https://freilandmuseum.de/

Address – Am Schloss 9, 08451 Crimmitschau / OT Blankenhain, Germany

Website – https://www.deutsches-landwirtschaftsmuseum.de/de/deutsches-landwirtschaftsmuseum-schloss-blankenhain.html

Hessenpark Open-Air Museum is the state of Hesse’s Museum of everyday culture. It has a collection of more than 200,000 objects and over 100 buildings spread over 65 hectares. In addition to residential houses, stables, barns, workshops mills, and inns, the museum also features churches, synagogues, schoolhouses and a plant nursery. Visitors can explore themed exhibitions. The museum is a centre of expertise for timber-frame construction. It offers workshops and conferences. As an arche-park and organic farm with Bioland certification, it contributes to the preservation of endangered livestock breeds, animal husbandry, and ethically responsible nutrition. Such topics of current societal relevance are understood as a museal contribution to learning from the past for the present and future.

Address – Laubweg 5, 61267 Neu-Anspach/Taunus, Germany

Website – https://www.hessenpark.de/

The LVR open-air museum in Kommern focuses on village life in the former Prussian Rhine Province. A total of 77 historic houses and stables in the Rhineland were dismantled and rebuilt on the 110-hectare museum site: Smoke houses from the Westerwald, half-timbered buildings from the northern Eifel as well as farms and stables from the Lower Rhine and the Bergisches Land region illustrate life and work in the rural Rhineland.
The new ‘Marktplatz Rheinland’ building group takes the cultural history presentation in the open-air museum right up to the present day. It shows the urbanisation of rural areas from 1945 to the early 21st century, combined with the dissolution of traditional rural villages.

Address – Eickser Straße, D-53894 Mechernich-Kommern, Germany

Website – https://kommern.lvr.de

The LWL Open-Air Museum in Hagen provides insights into two hundred years of craft and technology history in Westphalia-Lippe over an area of 42 hectares. There are around 60 workshops and small factories – but no farms! What makes it special: Every day, in around 15 workshops craftswomen and craftsmen are demonstrating individual production steps, for example how nails are forged, cigars are rolled or ropes are beaten. The museum also regularly presents exhibitions on the subject of crafts and technology. Since this year, a trackless train is running through the long and steep museum valley. It makes visiting the museum easier, especially for older people and those with limited mobility, and opens up new perspectives on the museum.

Address – Mäckingerbach, 58091 Hagen, Germany

Website – https://www.lwl-freilichtmuseum-hagen.de

Address – Krummes Haus, 32760 Detmold, Germany

Website – https://www.lwl-freilichtmuseum-detmold.de

Address – Weiherstraße 12, 74731 Walldürn-Gottersdorf, Germany

Website – https://www.freilandmuseum.com

Organization – Landesmuseen Schleswig-Holstein

Address – Hamburger Landstraße 97, 24113 Molfsee, Germany

Website – https://freilichtmuseum-sh.de/

Address – Nachtigallental 1, 55566 Bad Sobernheim, Germany

Website – https://www.freilichtmuseum-rlp.de/

The Hungarian Open Air Museum undertakes the research of folk architecture, interior furnishings and way of life, the collection of tangible and intangible relics in the Hungarian language territory, the safeguarding of this heritage, the versatile publication of the collections and providing access based on participation to this knowledge. With its research and collection work it takes part in the protection of Hungary’s varied (multi-ethnic and religious) cultural heritage and the social and cultural development of the settlements. With the help of its exhibitions, publications, digital content, museum education and recreation programmes, by the representation of material culture, way of life and traditions and by the mediation of theoretical knowledge and practical information adaptable in everyday life it helps a better understanding and usage of folk traditions and contributes to the popularization of the Hungarian national culture at a national and an international level, and the mediation of a sustainable lifestyle based on museum knowledge.

Address – 2000 Szentendre, Sztaravodai út 75, Hungary

Website – https://skanzen.hu

The Sóstó Skansen is the largest regional open-air ethnographic museum in Hungary, welcoming visitors since 1979. The site covers more than nine hectares; the buildings are arranged in a two-street village with the Reformed Church and the Belfry in the village centre. Here other buildings related to community life are grouped together: the school, the grocery store and the village pub. The houses and the farm buildings of the spacious farm yards have been relocated from different villages of the county. Thanks to their furnishing we can get an idea about how village people used to live at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Nyíres village belongs to the Sóstó Skanzen which part shows the Age of the Árpád dynasty. Reconstructed buildings present the typical house types and other buildings of the 10th-13th century.

Address – 4431 Nyíregyháza, Skanzen u. 8. Hungary

Website – https://nyiregyhaza.info.hu/latnivalok/sostoi-muzeumfalu/

Address – Via Duca Diet 24, 39031 Teodone / Brunico, Alto Adige, Italy

Website – https://www.volkskundemuseum.it

The Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia, with a history spanning 100 years, showcases over 100 historic buildings representing Latvia’s rural landscape and regions. Visitors can explore traditional farmsteads of farmers, craftsmen, and fishermen, featuring permanent exhibitions of period-specific household and work tools, interior furnishings, and more. The museum hosts over 20 seasonal events annually, including the renowned Traditional Applied Folk Arts Fair, a highlight for over 50 years. It also maintains two in-situ exhibits: the “Vēveri” Rural Exhibition in northern Latvia and the Fisherman Farmstead “Vītolnieki” in western Latvia.

Address – Brīvdabas iela 21, Rīga, LV-1024, Latvia

Website – http://brivdabasmuzejs.lv

Address – L. Lekavičiaus g. 2, LT-56337 Rumšiškės, Kaišiadorių r., Lithuania

Website – https://lemu.lt/

Address – Hoeferlaan 4, 6816 SG, Arnhem, Netherlands

Website – https://www.openluchtmuseum.nl

Address – Wierdijk 12-22, 1601 LA Enkhuizen, Netherland

Website – https://www.zuiderzeemuseum.nl/

Organization – Stiftelsen Lillehammer Museum

Address – Maihaugvegen 1, 2609 Lillehammer, Norway

Website – https://maihaugen.no/

Address – Museumsveien 10, Bygdøy, 0287 Oslo, Norway

Website – https://norskfolkemuseum.no/

Address – Leśna 23, 11-015 Olsztynek, Poland

Website – https://muzeumolsztynek.pl/

Address – Rybickiego 3, 38-500 Sanok, Poland

Website – https://skansen.mblsanok.pl

Address – Dziekanowice 32, 62-261 Lednogóra, Poland

Website – https://lednicamuzeum.pl/

Address – Narutowicza 64, 09-200 Sierpc, Poland

Website – https://mwmskansen.pl/

Address – Wrocławska 174, 45-835 Opole, Poland

Website – https://muzeumwsiopolskiej.pl

Address – T. i I. Gulgowskich 68, 83-406 Wdzydze, Poland

Website – http://www.muzeum-wdzydze.gda.pl

Address – Parkowa 25, 41-500 Chorzów, Poland

Website – http://muzeumgpe-chorzow.pl

Address – 6-20 Pădurea Dumbrava Street, gate 1, 550399 Sibiu, Romania

Website – https://muzeulastra.ro/

Address – Kiseleff nr. 28-30, sector 1, 011347, București, Romania

Website – https://muzeul-satului.ro/

Address – Tăietura Turcului Street, 400114, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Website – https://vechi.muzeul-etnografic.ro

Address – Derevnya Malyye Karely, 2V, Primorsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, 163502, Russian Federation

Website – https://www.korely.ru/

Address – 39 Prospekt Andropova 115487, Moscow, Russian Federation

Website – https://www.mgomz.ru/en

Address – Sirogojno bb, Unnamed Road, Sirogojno 31207, Serbia

Website – https://www.sirogojno.rs/

Organization – Slovak National Museum

Address – Jahodnícke háje, 036 80 Martin, Slovakia

Address – Linköpings kommun, 581 81 Linköping, Sweden

Website – https://gamlalinkoping.se/

Address – Museiplan 2, 831 31 Östersund, Sweden

Website – https://www.jamtli.com/

Address – Djurgårdsslätten 49-51, 115 21 Stockholm, Sweden

Website – https://www.skansen.se/

Address – Skerikesvägen 2, 724 80 Västerås, Sweden

Website – https://vallbyfriluftsmuseum.se/

Address – Museumsstrasse 100, CH-3858 Hofstetten bei Brienz, Switzerland

Website – https://ballenberg.ch

Address – Stoke Heath, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, B60 4JR, United Kingdom

Website – https://avoncroft.org.uk/

Address – Beamish, County Durham, DH9 0RG, United Kingdom

Website – https://www.beamish.org.uk

Address – Tipton Road, Dudley, DY1 4SQ, United Kingdom

Website – https://bclm.com/

Address – Ironbridge, Telford TF8 7DQ, United Kingdom

Website – https://www.ironbridge.org.uk/

Organization – Amgueddfa Cymru

Address – CF5 6XB Cardiff, United Kingdom

Website – https://museum.wales/stfagans/

Organization – National Museums NI

Address – 153 Bangor Road, Cultra, County Down, BT18 0EU, United Kingdom

Website – https://www.ulsterfolkmuseum.org/

Address – Town Lane, Singleton, Chichester, West Sussex PO18 0EU, United Kingdom

Website – https://www.wealddown.co.uk/