Frilandsmuseet () is an

open-air museum An open-air museum is a museum that exhibits collections of buildings and artifacts outdoors. It is also frequently known as a museum of buildings or a folk museum. Definition Open air is "the unconfined atmosphere ... outside buildings" ...

on the northern outskirts of

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. The museum is located in

Lyngby Kongens Lyngby (, Danish language, Danish for "the King's Heather Town"; short form Lyngby) is the seat and commercial centre of Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality in the northern suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. Lyngby Hovedgade is a busy shopping stre ...

on Kongevejen in

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. The museum can be reached directly by bus number 184 from

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in central Copenhagen or by S-train to Sorgenfri station.

Buildings

Opened in 1897, it moved to its present location in 1901. Covering 40

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, it is one of the largest and oldest open-air museums in the world. It is a department under the

Danish National Museum The National Museum of Denmark (Nationalmuseet) in Copenhagen is Denmark's largest museum of cultural history, comprising the histories of Danish and foreign cultures, alike. The museum's main building is located a short distance from Strøget ...

and is part of the research done on agricultural history. The museum features more than 100 buildings from rural environments and dating from 1650-1950. All buildings are original and have been moved piece by piece from their original location save a windmill that is still found in its original location. The museum contains rural buildings from all regions of Denmark, including many of the small and remote Danish islands including

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and

Læsø Læsø ("Isle of Ægir, Hlér") is the largest island in the North Sea bay of Kattegat, and is located off the northeast coast of the Jutland Peninsula, the Denmark, Danish mainland. Læsø is also the name of the municipality (Danish language, D ...

. Buildings include a

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from the island of

thatched with

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. Represented are also buildings from the

Faroe Islands The Faroe Islands ( ) (alt. the Faroes) are an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous territory of the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. Located between Iceland, Norway, and the United Kingdom, the islands have a populat ...

, as well as the former Danish possessions of

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and

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and

Halland Halland () is one of the traditional provinces of Sweden (''landskap''), on the western coast of Götaland, southern Sweden. It borders Västergötland, Småland, Skåne, Scania and the sea of Kattegat. Until 1645 and the Second Treaty of Br ...

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. The distribution demonstrates how life has been adapted to regional living conditions and availability of materials. Represented in the collection are also all social living conditions, from a

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to a

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, different types of buildings like farms, mills and workshops, and numerous professions. The museum include six mills including a

post mill The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill. Its defining feature is that the whole body of the mill that houses the machinery is mounted on a single central vertical post. The vertical post is supported by four quarter bars. These ar ...

from 1662. Some of the mills are regularly operated by a guild of volunteers. The grounds of the museum also features 25 historic gardens and cultural landscapes and livestock of old Danish breeds. The gardens and animals are displayed in connection with the socially and geographically corresponding buildings.

Gallery

Image:Frilandsmuseet -Træskomager, Kirke-Søby.png, ''TræskoMaker's House, Kirke Søby Image:Frilandsmuseet - Sdr. Sejerslev.jpg, Farmhouse from Sønder Sejerslev Image:Frilandsmuseet - Borre, tømrer- og snedkerværksted.jpg, Woodworker's workshop from Borre on

Møn Møn () is an island in south-eastern Denmark. Until 1 January 2007, it was a municipality in its own right but it is now part of the municipality of Vordingborg Municipality, Vordingborg, after merging with the former municipalities of Langeb ...

Image:Frilandsmuseet - Gården fra Lundager, Fyn.jpg, Farmhouse from Lundager on

Funen Funen (, ), is the third-largest List of islands of Denmark, island of Denmark, after Zealand and North Jutlandic Island, Vendsyssel-Thy, with an area of . It is the List of islands by area, 165th-largest island in the world. It is located in th ...

Image:Ducks by dam at Frilandsmuseet, Lyngby 5046462437 l.jpg, Forge from

Ørbæk Ørbæk is a town in central Denmark, located in Nyborg municipality on the island of Funen. Ørbæk was until 2007 the seat of Ørbæk Municipality. History Ørbæk was first mentioned in 1231 as 'Ørbæc', which was the name of the brook that ...

Image:Gård på Frilandsmuseet i Lyngby.JPG, Marsh farm from Sønderjylland Image:Frilandsmuseet-fanø.jpg, Skipper's house from

Fanø Fanø () is a Danish island in the North Sea off the coast of southwestern Denmark, and is the very northernmost of the Danish Wadden Sea Islands. Fanø Municipality () is the '' kommune'' that covers the island and its seat is the town of Nor ...

Image:Gårdsplads, Halland.jpg, Farmhouse from Jalland

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