A Visit to Skansen Museum

This wonderful open-air museum in Stockholm, Sweden, was founded in 1891. Costumed interpreters people the buildings: the manors, cottages, shops, and workplaces which were collected from all over Sweden and brought to this island in Stockholm's archipelago. Skansen preserves different times of Sweden's history and its tradition of handcraft. It also features Swedish wildlife and farm animals.

This man is weaving a fishing net.

Here is a picture from the fascinating machinist's shop.

Here is the pastry shop. The interior photographs, for which I did not use a flash, seem glowing and still, like a Vermeer painting.

This little boy is having a pastry.


These are the storage drawers in the hardware store.

This is a toy oven from the hardware man's home at the back of the shop.

This was a tea towel in the kitchen of the hardware man's home. I would love to know what it says.

This is the dairy shop. The dairy lady is showing my son how to use the scale.

This interpreter is dressed as a Sami woman. She is carving a little wooden spoon. Watching her made me want to learn to whittle.

This interpreter is a homemaker putting the kettle on the stove.

These geese were in front of the schoolhouse.

Traditional Swedish rural architecture.

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