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List of open-air and living history museums

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This is a list of open-air and living history museums by country.

Africa

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  • Pilgrim's Rest, Mpumalaga Province
  • Worcester Museum (Klein plasie open-air museum), Worcester Western Cape
  • Sonskip / Aardskip earthship open-air museum, Orania Northern Cape
  • 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

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Europe

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The wooden church in Drvengrad open-air museum, Serbia
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
Roscheider Hof, Germany
  • Cregneash - The first open-air museum in the British Isles
  • Museo a Cielo Aperto Ulàssai (Open-Air Museum Ulàssai)
  • Museodiffuso
  • Poggibonsi Archaeodrome - Open Air Museum
  • Bostel di Rotzo - Castelletto di Rotzo, Vicenza
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
Dutch Open Air Museum
Setesdalstunet, Vest-Agder Museum in Kristiansand
Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park, Poland
Architectural-ethnographic museum "Khokhlovka", Perm Krai
Open-air museum in Stará Ľubovňa, Slovakia.

Torekällberget Södertälje

England

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Scotland

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Wales

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Northern Ireland

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North America

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Fortress Louisbourg, Nova Scotia

Oceania

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New Zealand

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  • 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

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Suriname

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Living transportation museums

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Ecological and environmental living museums

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Some ecological living museums are zoos

References

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Museum websites