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Skansen Open Air Museum, Sweden - Skansen Open Air Museum, Zoo, Buildings
Skansen is the world’s oldest open-air museum and offers views of diverse parts of Sweden and customs, traditions and the consequent way of life.Skansen offers an exclusive historic and cultural environment in which craftsmen in traditional dress such as tanners, shoemakers, silversmiths, bakers and glass-blowers demonstrate their skills in period surroundings.The Skansen collection includes more than 150 historical buildings and houses (from 1680) that were bought by the founder Artur Hazelius (1833-1901) from all over the nation. The houses were sent piece by piece to Stockholm and rebuilt and dotted all over this 300,000 m2 area in Djurgården, an centric isle of Stockholm.
