This is a list of open-air and living history museums by country.
Africa
Egypt
South Africa Pilgrim's Rest , Mpumalaga ProvinceWorcester 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
Israel and the Golan Heights
Japan Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum , Tokyo Hakone Open-Air Museum , Hakone, Kanagawa Meiji Mura , Inuyama, Aichi Nihon Minka-en (Japan Open-Air Folk House Museum), Kawasaki, Kanagawa Open-Air Museum of Old Japanese Farmhouses, Osaka Hida Minzoku Mura Folk Village , Takayama, Gifu Kyodo no mori , Fuchū , Tokyo Sankeien , Naka Ward , Yokohama Shikoku Mura , Takamatsu , Kagawa Prefecture Historical Village of Hokkaido (Hokkaidō Kaitaku no Mura ), Sapporo , Hokkaido
Malaysia
Philippines
South Korea
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 Estonian Open Air Museum , Tallinn Mahtra Peasant Museum , Mahtra , Juuru Parish , Rapla County Mihkli Farm Museum, Viki, Kihelkonna Parish , Saare County Mõniste Peasant Museum, Kuutsi , Mõniste Parish , Võru County Põlva Peasant Museum, Karilatsi , Kõlleste Parish , Põlva County Viimsi Open Air Museum , Pringi , Viimsi Parish ; near Tallinn
Finland
France
Germany Roscheider Hof, Germany Bauernhausmuseum Amerang (Amerang Open Air Museum), Bavaria Rüdersdorf Museum Park [2], Brandenburg Bavarian Forest Museum Village , Tittling Black Forest Open Air Museum "Vogtsbauernhof" , Gutach , Baden-Württemberg Campus Galli medieval town with Carolingian monastery, Meßkirch , Baden-Württemberg Dat ole Huus , Wilsede , Lower Saxony Detmold Open-air Museum , Detmold , North Rhine-WestphaliaDüppel museum village, Berlin Freilichtmuseum Glentleiten|Glentleiten Open Air Museum, Bavaria Groß Raden Archaeological Open Air Museum , nr Sternberg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Hagen Open-air Museum , Hagen , North Rhine-WestphaliaHessenpark , Neu-Anspach , Hesse Hitzacker Archaeological Centre , Hitzacker , Lower SaxonyHösseringen Museum Village , Hösseringen , Lower SaxonyInternational Wind- and Watermill Museum , Gifhorn , Lower SaxonyKommern Open-air Museum , Mechernich , North Rhine-WestphaliaLindlar Open-air Museum, Lindlar , North Rhine-Westphalia Lower Bavarian Open-Air Museums , Finsterau and Massing Mödlareuth village, Bavaria and Thuringia Oerlinghausen Archaeological Open-Air Museum (Das Archäologische Freilichtmuseum Oerlinghausen), Oerlinghausen , North Rhine-Westphalia Ore Mountain Toy Museum , Seiffen , Saxony Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen , Unteruhldingen , Baden-Württemberg Rhineland-Palatinate Open Air Museum Bad Sobernheim (Rheinland-Pfälzisches Freilichtmuseum Bad Sobernheim), Bad Sobernheim , Rhineland-Palatinate Rischmannshof Heath Museum , Walsrode , Lower SaxonyRoscheider Hof , Konz, Rhineland-Palatinate Slavic Village Passentin , near Neubrandenburg , Mecklenburg-VorpommernSwabian Farm Museum ( Schwäbisches Bauernhofmuseum Illerbeuren), Illerbeuren, Bavaria Winsen Museum Farm , Winsen (Aller) , Lower Saxony
Georgia
Hungary Hungarian open air museum (Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum), Szentendre Szennai Szabadtéri Néprajzi Gyűjtemény, Szenna Göcseji Falumúzeum, Zalaegerszeg Őrségi Népi Műemlékegyüttes, Szalafő -(Pityerszer) Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, Ópusztaszer Sóstói Múzeumfalu, Nyíregyháza Vasi Múzeumfalu, Szombathely Hollókői Falumúzeum, Hollókő Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, Nagyvázsony Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, Tihany Emese Várispánság Szigethalom [3]
Iceland
Ireland
Isle of Man Cregneash - The first open-air museum in the British Isles
Italy Museo a Cielo Aperto Ulàssai (Open-Air Museum Ulàssai) Museodiffuso Poggibonsi Archaeodrome - Open Air Museum Bostel di Rotzo - Castelletto di Rotzo, Vicenza
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
Lithuania
Moldova
Netherlands Dutch Open Air Museum Dutch Open Air Museum - Arnhem , Gelderland Archeon - Alphen aan den Rijn , South Holland De Spitkeet - Harkema , Friesland Limburgs Openluchtmuseum Eynderhoof - Nederweert-Eind , Limburg Eindhoven Museum - Eindhoven , North Brabant Hunebedcentrum[2] - Borger , Drenthe Museum Village Orvelte - Orvelte , Drenthe Openluchtmuseum De Duinhuisjes - Rockanje , South Holland Ellert en Brammert - Schoonoord , Drenthe Erve Kots - Lievelde , Gelderland Openluchtmuseum Het Hoogeland - Warffum , Groningen It Damshûs - Nij Beets , Friesland Openluchtmuseum Ootmarsum - Ootmarsum Overijssel Van Gogh Village Nuenen - Nuenen North Brabant Zaanse Schans - Zaandam , North Holland Zuiderzee Museum - Enkhuizen , North Holland
North Macedonia
Norway Setesdalstunet, Vest-Agder Museum in Kristiansand Agatunet (see Norwegian language site Agatunet) Bjørgan parsonage , Kvikne Dølmotunet, Tolga (see North Østerdalen Museums ) Folldal Bygdetun - Uppigard Streitlien, Folldal (see North Østerdalen Museums ) Folldal Gruver, Folldal (see Norwegian language site Folldal Gruver) The Heiberg Collection, Kaupanger (see Norwegian language site De Heibergske Samlinger) Husantunet, Alvdal (see North Østerdalen Museums ) Norwegian Museum of Cultural History , OsloMaihaugen , Lillehammer Os Museum - Oddentunet, Os (see North Østerdalen Museums ) Romsdal Museum , Molde Rendalen Village Museum , Rendalen (see North Østerdalen Museums )Trøndelag folkemuseum, Sverresborg, Trondheim Tylldalen Bygdetun, Tylldalen (see North Østerdalen Museums ) Tynset Bygdemuseum, Tynset (see North Østerdalen Museums ) Vest-Agder Museum , Kristiansand Vollan Gård, Kvikne (see Norwegian language site Vollan gård)
Poland Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park, Poland Biskupin Archaeological Museum (Muzeum Archeologiczne w Biskupinie) , about 90 kilometres (56 miles) northeast of Poznań Grodzisko Owidz|reconstruction of early medieval Slavic wooden stronghold, Owidz Ethnographic open-air museum in Sanok (Muzeum Budownictwa Ludowego w Sanoku) , Sanok Folk Architecture Museum (Park Etnograficzny w Olsztynku), Olsztynek Kashubian Ethnographic Park (Kaszubski Park Etnograficzny) , Wdzydze Kiszewskie Kujawy and Dobrzyń Land Ethnographic Park, Kłóbka Museum of the Slovincian Village, Kluki Muzeum Kultury Ludowej w Kolbuszowej, Kolbuszowa Muzeum Etnograficzny w Zielonej Górze z siedzibą w Ochlii, Ochla, Lubusz Voivodeship Muzeum Kultury Ludowej, Osiek nad Notecią Muzeum Wsi Lubelskiej w Lublinie, Lublin Muzeum Wsi Mazowieckiej w Sierpcu, Sierpc Muzeum Wsi Radomskiej w Radomiu, Radom Nadwiślański Park Etnograficzny, Wygiełzów Open-air Museum of the Łódź Wooden Architecture Orawski Park Etnograficzny, Zubrzyca Górna Podlaskie Museum of Folk Culture , Wasilków Skansen Budownictwa Ludowego Zachodniej Wielkopolski, Wolsztyn Skansen Etnograficzny w Russowie, Russów Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park , Chorzów Ethnographic park of Dziekanowice, Dziekanowice [4] Railway Museum Chabowka, Chabówka Rolling-Stock Heritage Park "Skansen", Chabowka The Sądecki Ethnographic Park , Nowy Sącz The Opole Open-Air Museum of Rural Architecture, Opole
Romania ASTRA National Museum Complex , Sibiu Reșița Steam Locomotive Museum , Reșița Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography , Cluj-Napoca Village Museum "Dimitrie Gusti" - Muzeul Național al Satului "Dimitrie Gusti", Bucharest Banat Village Museum - Muzeul Satului Bănățean, Timișoara , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-air_and_living_museums/Banat_Village_Museum, https://muzeulsatuluibanatean.ro/ Museum of folk art and ethnography - Muzeul Satului din Baia Mare, Baia Mare Village Museum - Muzeul Satului Petrești Vrancea, Petrești Vrancea Museum "Haszmann Pál", Cernatu de Sus Museum of folk architecture - Muzeul Arhitecturii Populare, Gorj Ethnographic museum - Muzeul Etnografic, Reghin Maramureș Village Museum, Sighetu Marmației Bucovina Village Museum - Muzeul Satului Bucovinean, Suceava Ednomon - Virtual Museum of Ethnographical Monuments in Romanian Open Air Museums Goleşti Viticulture And Tree Growing Museum, Golești
Russia Architectural-ethnographic museum "Khokhlovka ", Perm Krai
Serbia
Slovakia Open-air museum in Stará Ľubovňa , Slovakia .
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden Torekällberget Södertälje
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine Baturyn Fortress Citadel , BaturynMamayeva Sloboda Cossack village Museum, Kyiv Open-air Museum of Architecture and Ethnography in Pyrohiv , KyivMuseum 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 , ZaporizjaMuseum "Old Village", Kolochava Historical and ethnographic museum, Sarny Museum of Folk Architecture and Life, Chernivtsi
United Kingdom
England Anne of Cleves House , LewesAvoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings , Worcestershire Amberley Working Museum , Amberley, West Sussex Beamish, North of England Open Air Museum , Beamish, County Durham Black Country Living Museum , Dudley , West Midlands Blists Hill Victorian Town , Telford , Shropshire Butser Ancient Farm , Chalton, Hampshire Chiltern Open Air Museum , Chalfont St. Giles , Buckinghamshire Church Farm Museum , Agricultural museum and collection of indigenous buildings, Skegness Cogges Manor Farm Museum , Witney , Oxfordshire Little Woodham , Gosport , Hampshire Manor Farm Country Park , Bursledon , Hampshire Milestones Museum , Basingstoke, HampshireMorwellham Quay , DevonMurton Park / Yorkshire Museum of Farming in Murton , York Museum of East Anglian Life , Stowmarket , Suffolk National Coal Mining Museum for England, Wakefield, West Yorkshire Rural Life Living Museum , Tilford , Surrey Ryedale Folk Museum , North York Moors , North Yorkshire Weald and Downland Open Air Museum , Sussex West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village , Suffolk West Yorkshire Folk Museum, in grounds of Shibden Hall , Halifax Wimpole Home Farm , Cambridgeshire York Castle Museum , York
Scotland
Wales
Northern Ireland
North America
Canada Fortress Louisbourg, Nova Scotia Barkerville, British Columbia Ball's Falls Conservation Area, Jordan , Ontario Black Creek Pioneer Village , Toronto , Ontario Burnaby Village Museum , Burnaby, British Columbia Canada's Polish Kashub Heritage Museum & Skansen, Wilno, Ontario Discovery Harbour, Penetanguishene , Ontario Doon Heritage Village , Kitchener, Ontario Fort Henry, Ontario Fort Edmonton Park , Edmonton , Alberta Fort Langley National Historic Site , Fort Langley, British Columbia Fortress of Louisbourg , Louisbourg, Nova Scotia Fort William Historical Park , Thunder Bay , Ontario Fort York , Toronto , Ontario Greater Sudbury Heritage Museums Halifax Citadel National Historic Site of Canada (Citadel Hill ), Halifax, Nova Scotia Highland Village Museum , Iona, Nova Scotia Heritage Park Historical Village , Calgary , Alberta Kalyna Country , an ecomuseum Kawartha Settlers' Village, Bobcaygeon, Ontario Kings Landing Historical Settlement , Prince William, New Brunswick Lower Fort Garry National Historic Site, Selkirk, ManitobaMarkham Museum , Markham, Ontario Mennonite Heritage Village , Steinbach, Manitoba Sainte-Marie among the Hurons , Midland, Ontario Screaming Heads, Burk's Falls, Ontario
Sherbrooke Village , Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village , Alberta Upper Canada Village , Morrisburg, Ontario Village Historique Acadien , Caraquet, New Brunswick Village Québécois d'Antan , Drummondville , Quebec West Coast Railway Heritage Park , Squamish , British Columbia Westfield Heritage Village , Rockton, Ontario Pickering Museum Village, Pickering, Ontario
Mexico
United States
Oceania
Australia The Pioneer Settlement , Swan Hill, Victoria , Australia's First Open Air Museum, opened 1966. Old Gippstown , Moe, Victoria opened 1973Port Arthur, Tasmania Sovereign Hill , Ballarat, Victoria Millewa Pioneer Forest and Historical Village, Meringur, Victoria Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum, Warrnambool, Victoria Old Sydney Town , Somersby, New South Wales (now closed)Miles Historical Village and Museum , Miles, Queensland Old Tailem Town, Tailem Bend, South Australia Australiana Pioneer Village, Wilberforce, NSW
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 Museu ao ar livre de Orleans [6] Inhotim [7]
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 Monticello III 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 ŻninSkansen 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
California Living Museum , Bakersfield, California , United StatesVirginia Living Museum , Newport News, Virginia , United StatesNonsuch Island Living Museum, BermudaPenang Forestry Museum, Penang , Malaysia Ball's Falls Conservation Area, Jordan, Ontario , Canada
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