List of open air and living museums

Egypt

Luxor Upper Egypt

Memphis ruins

Karnak largest temple complex in the world

South Africa

Worcester Museum (Klein plasie open-air museum), Worcester Western Cape

Tunisia

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

China

Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum, Hong Kong

Sam Tung Uk Museum, Hong Kong

Xinye Village, Zhejiang

Indonesia

Taman Mini Indonesia Indah

Israel and the Golan Heights

Katzrin Ancient Village

Nazareth Village

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

Malaysia

Colmar Tropicale, Bukit Tinggi, Pahang

Japanese Village, Bukit Tinggi, Pahang

Monsopiad Cultural Village. Penampang, Sabah

Sarawak Cultural Village, Kuching, Sarawak

Taman Mini Malaysia & Asean (Malaysia and Asean Miniature Park), Ayer Keroh, Malacca

Taman Tamadun Islam (Islamic Civilization Park), Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu

Philippines

Expo Pilipino

Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar

South Korea

Korean Folk Village, Yongin, Gyeonggi

Taiwan

921 Earthquake Museum of Taiwan, Taichung

Ju Ming Museum, New Taipei

Austria

Austrian Open-Air Museum, Stübing

Salzburger Freilichtmuseum, Großgmain

Carinthian Open-Air Museum, Maria Saal

Museums of Tyrolian Farmsteads, Kramsach

Museumsdorf Niedersulz

Belgium

Bokrijk open-air museum (Openluchtmuseum Bokrijk), (near Genk, Province of Limburg), [1]

Atlantic Wall open-air museum (Atlantikwall Openluchtmuseum), (Ostend, West Flanders)

Bachten De Kupe open-air museum (Openluchtmuseum Bachten de Kupe), (Alveringem, West Flanders), [2]

Museum of Rural Life in Wallonia (Musée de la Vie rurale en Wallonie), (Saint-Hubert, Province of Luxembourg), [3]

Bulgaria

Etar Architectural-Ethnographic Complex, Gabrovo

Czech Republic

Hanácký skanzen (Skanzen of Hanakia), Příkazy

Museum lidových staveb (Folk Buildings Museum), Kouřim

Polabské národopisné muzeum (Ethnographic Museum of the region of Polabí), Přerov nad Labem—the oldest skansen in Central and Eastern Europe

Skanzen Straznice skanzenstraznice.cz

Valašské národopisné muzeum (Wallachian Ethnographic Museum), Rožnov pod Radhoštěm http://www.vmp.cz/en/

Skanzen Vysoký Chlumec, (http://www.muzeum-pribram.cz/exhmpb/exmvs/exmvs.html)

Skanzen Veselý kopec - Soubor lidových staveb Vysočina, (Open-air museum Vysočina http://www.vesely-kopec.eu/en/)

Denmark

Land of legends (Sagnlandet Lejre), Lejre

The Middle Ages Center in Sundby a suburb of Nykøbing Falster

The Old Village, Hjerl Hede, Vinderup

The Old Town, Aarhus

Open Air Museum (Kongens Lyngby)

The Funen Village in the Fruens Bøge district of Odense

Glud Museum, near Horsens

Maribo Open-Air Museum

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

Luostarinmäki, Turku

Seurasaari Open-Air Museum, Helsinki

Telkkämäki Heritage Farm, Kaavi

Turkansaari, Oulu

France

Musée de plein air des maisons comtoises, Nancray, Doubs, Franche-Comté

Musée de plein air de Villeneuve-d'Ascq, Villeneuve-d'Ascq

Ecomusée d'Alsace, Ungersheim

Germany

Black Forest Open Air Museum, 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-Westphalia

Düppel museum village, Berlin

Groß Raden Archaeological Open Air Museum, nr Sternberg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Hagen Open-air Museum, Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia

Hessenpark, Neu-Anspach, Hesse

Hitzacker Archaeological Centre, Hitzacker, Lower Saxony

Hösseringen Museum Village, Hösseringen, Lower Saxony

International Wind- and Watermill Museum, Gifhorn, Lower Saxony

Kommern Open-air Museum, Mechernich, North Rhine-Westphalia

Lindlar Open-air Museum, Lindlar, North Rhine-Westphalia

Mödlareuth village, Bavaria and Thuringia

Oerlinghausen Archaeological Open-Air Museum, Oerlinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia

Ore Mountain Toy Museum, Seiffen, Saxony

Rhineland-Palatinate Open Air Museum Bad Sobernheim, Bad Sobernheim, Rhineland-Palatinate

Rischmannshof Heath Museum, Walsrode, Lower Saxony

Roscheider Hof, Konz, Rhineland-Palatinate

Slavic Village Passentin, near Neubrandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Swabian Farm Museum, Illerbeuren, Bavaria

Winsen Museum Farm, Winsen (Aller), Lower Saxony

Georgia

Open Air Museum of Ethnography, Tbilisi

Hungary

Szentendrei Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, Szentendre [4]

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 [5]

Iceland

Árbæjarsafn

Ireland

Bunratty Castle and Folk Park, County Clare

Connemara Heritage & History Centre

Kerry Bog Village

Isle of Man

Cregneash - The first open-air museum in the British Isles

Italy

Museo a Cielo Aperto Ulàssai

Museodiffuso

Open Air Museum Ulàssai

Latvia

Latvian Ethnographic Open Air Museum

Lithuania

Rumšiškės open-air ethnographic museum

Macedonia

Tumba Madžari

Netherlands

Archeon - Alphen aan den Rijn, South Holland

De Spitkeet - Harkema, Friesland

Limburgs Openluchtmuseum Eynderhoof - Nederweert-Eind, Limburg

Eindhoven Museum, North Brabant

Hunebedcentrum - Borger, Drenthe

Museum Village Orvelte, Drenthe

Netherlands Open Air Museum - Arnhem, Gelderland

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, Overijssel

Van Gogh Village Nuenen, North Brabant

Zaanse Schans - Zaandam, North Holland

Zuiderzee Museum - Enkhuizen, North Holland

Norway

Agatunet (see Norwegian language site Agatunet)

Bjørgan parsonage, Kvikne

Dølmotunet, Tolga (see Norwegian language site Nordøsterdalsmuseet)

Folldal Bygdetun - Uppigard Streitlien, Folldal (see Norwegian language site Folldal Gruver)

Folldal Gruver, Folldal (see Norwegian language site Nordøsterdalsmuseet)

Husantunet, Alvdal (see Norwegian language site Nordøsterdalsmuseet)

Norsk Folkemuseum, Oslo

Maihaugen, Lillehammer

Os Museum - Oddentunet, Os (see Norwegian language site Nordøsterdalsmuseet)

Rendalen Bygdemuseum, Rendalen (see Norwegian language site Nordøsterdalsmuseet)

Trøndelag folkemuseum, Sverresborg, Trondheim

Tylldalen Bygdetun, Tylldalen (see Norwegian language site Nordøsterdalsmuseet)

Tynset Bygdemuseum, Tynset (see Norwegian language site Nordøsterdalsmuseet)

Vollan Gård, Kvikne (see Norwegian language site Vollan gård)

Poland

Biskupin Archaeological Museum

reconstruction of early medieval Slavic wooden stronghold in Owidz [6]

Ethnographic open-air museum in Sanok

Folk Architecture Museum in Olsztynek [7]

Kashubian Ethnographic Park in Wdzydze Kiszewskie

Museum of the Slovinian Village in Kluki [8]

Muzeum Etnograficzny w Zielonej Górze z siedzibą w Ochlii in Ochla, Lubusz Voivodeship

Muzeum Kultury Ludowej in Osiek nad Notecią

Open-air Museum of the Łódź Wooden Architecture

Skansen Budownictwa Ludowego Zachodniej Wielkopolski in Wolsztyn [9]

Skansen Etnograficzny w Russowie in Russów [10]

Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów

Wielkopolski Park Etnograficzny in Dziekanowice [11]

Chabówka Rolling-Stock Heritage Park "Skansen" in Chabówka

The Sądecki Ethnographic Park in Nowy Sącz

The Opole Open-Air Museum of Rural Architecture in Opole [12]

Romania

ASTRA National Museum Complex

Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography

Village Museum

Russia

Vitoslavlitsy

Kizhi

Kolomenskoye

Architectural-ethnographic museum "Khokhlovka"

Malye Korely

Torum Maa http://torummaa.ru

Semenkovo http://www.semenkovo.ru

Gornokyazevsk

Zhivun http://muji-museum.ru/index.php/prirodno-etnograficheskij-park-muzej-zhivun

Serbia

Drvengrad (Mećavnik, Küstendorf), Mokra Gora (Zlatibor)

Staro selo (Old Village open-air museum), Sirogojno (Zlatibor)

Slovakia

Banská Štiavnica

Bardejov

Čičmany

Humenné

Martin

Nitra

Pribylina

Stará Ľubovňa

Svidník

Vlkolínec

Vychylovka

Zuberec – Brestová

Slovenia

Piran

Rogatec

Velika Planina

Spain

Museo de Escultura al Aire Libre de Alcalá de Henares, Alcalá de Henares

Poble Espanyol, Barcelona

Sweden

Jamtli, Östersund

Kulturen, Lund

Skansen, Stockholm

Switzerland

Ballenberg, Brienz

Turkey

Ihlara

Derinkuyu Underground City

Kaymaklı Underground City

Göreme

Ürgüp

Karatepe-Aslantaş Open Air Museum

Ukraine

Lviv Museum of Folk Architecture and Culture (see Kryvka Church)

Open-air Museum of Architecture and Ethnography in Pyrohiv, near Kiev

England

Anne of Cleves House, Lewes

Avoncroft 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

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

Morwellham Quay, Devon

Murton Park / Yorkshire Museum of Farming in Murton, York

Museum of East Anglian Life, Stowmarket, Suffolk

Rural Life Centre, 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

National Museum of Rural Life, East Kilbride, Lanarkshire

The Scottish Crannog Centre near Aberfeldy, Scotland, Loch Tay

Auchindrain – ner Inveraray, Argyll and Bute

The Gearrannan Blackhouses, isle of Lewis

Skye Museum of Island Life, near Kilmuir, Skye, Isle of Skye,

Highland Folk Museum Newtonmore

Industrial open-air museum of New Lanark

Wales

St Fagans National History Museum, St Fagans, Cardiff

Northern Ireland

Ulster American Folk Park, Castleton, County Tyrone

Ulster Folk & Transport Museum, Cultra, County Down

Canada

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

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

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, Manitoba

Markham Museum, Markham, Ontario

Mennonite Heritage Village, Steinbach, Manitoba

Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, Midland, 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

Australia

The Pioneer Settlement, Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia's First Open Air Museum, opened 1966.

Old Gippstown, Moe, Victoria opened 1973

Port 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 1850's 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.

Brazil

Museu ao ar livre de Orleans http://www.unibave.net/index.php?a=4910

INHOTIM https://www.inhotim.org.br/

Suriname

Fort Nieuw-Amsterdam

Living transportation museums

Brooklands in Weybridge, Elmbridge, Surrey, England (aviation and motorcar 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, 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 Żnin

Skansen 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 States

Virginia Living Museum, Newport News, Virginia, United States

Nonsuch Island Living Museum, Bermuda

Penang Forestry Museum, Penang, Malaysia

Ball's Falls Conservation Area, Jordan, Ontario, Canada