Talk:Skansen

First open air museum?
The question of the relative ages of the first open air museums has been settled. The first one was founded at the Royal Manor of Bygdøy near Kristiania in 1881, ten years before Hazelius founded his open air museum Skansen. Hazelius visited Kristiania in 1885 and probably saw the newly founded museum there. His visit has never been documented, but his friendship with the founder Christian Holst is substantiated through their correspondence. When Hazelius started his fund-raising campaign for Skansen, he commissioned an illustration with a remarkable resemblance to the view of the Bygdøy open air museum, published in that museum's guidebook in 1888. For more details on this, see the book by Tonte Hegard: Romantikk og fortidsvern, Oslo 1984. Roede 21:41, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

laplander hut?
not sure here, but should laplander be redirected to Sami people, or is it being used in reference to non-sami people from lapland? - TheMightyQuill 08:26, 5 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I added that image, and Laplander should be understood as Sami people. I'm not sure what name is the must common in the English-speaking world; maybe it should be changed?
 * / Mats Halldin (talk) 11:27, 5 June 2007 (UTC)