Mar 31, 2011 07:03 BST Skansen The Village Hall (Folkets Hus) comes from the village of Gersheden in the parish of Ransäter in Värmland. It was built in1908by the Village Hall Society which was started on the initiative of the local social-democratic youth organization. The project was financed by profits from social events, loans and collections. Building was undertaken in the evenings after the day’s work was done.
Mar 30, 2011 07:57 BST Skansen For the Stockholm Exhibition of1897 the local brewers joined forces and built a common beer hall - the Brage Hall. The hall was designed by Carl Westman and was originally an open rotunda.
Mar 24, 2011 07:22 GMT Skansen The Smithy (Smedjan) is a low building with an earth floor. It was built at the beginning of the 19th century and was originally the farm smithy at Bruskebo Farm in Uppland. The smithy produced mainly smaller items that were needed on the farm such as locks, iron fittings, hinges and door latches. The smithy was also important for repairing the farm’s various tools, carriages and carts.
Mar 22, 2011 07:19 GMT Skansen The Forester’s Hut (Skogsarbetarkojan) is modelled on huts in the forests of Hälsingland and was built at Skansen. Similar huts were used in conjunction with felling timber throughout northern Sweden during the latter part of the 19th century.
Mar 17, 2011 07:44 GMT Skansen The Chapel comes from Östergötland. The traditional red-stained timber building was erected in 1898 and consists of a hall with a balcony and a small kitchen. The hall is furnished with benches, a platform and pulpit, organ and a stove for heating and appears as it did in 1914. Paraffin lamps hang from the ceiling. Services are held in the chapel on certain Sundays and festivals.
Mar 03, 2011 08:49 GMT Skansen The 30th of April is Valborgsmässoafton, Walpurgis night, in Sweden. when we celebrate the arrival of spring with singing, bonfires and fireworks. Students are especially active during Walpurgis night but the celebration goes back to medieval times and like so many other Swedish traditions it has it´s roots in northern Germany.
Feb 16, 2011 12:32 GMT Skansen The Summer Pasture Farm (Fäboden) consists of buildings from northern Dalarna. Since the Mora Farmstead is intended to be one of the farms that owned the Summer Pasture Farm, by seeing both of the farms one gains an idea of how people lived and worked in the farm down in the village and in the farm on the summer grazing grounds in one of Sweden’s oldest inhabited districts.
Jan 19, 2011 12:45 GMT Skansen The Sami Camp (Samevistet) at Skansen is an autumn and spring camp for the mountain Sami. It shows how the mountain Sami lived at the beginning of the 20th century when they still followed a nomadic existence, moving about with their reindeer.
Jan 14, 2011 08:33 GMT Skansen The Oktorp Farmstead (Oktorpsgården) comes from Halland. It shows what a farmstead in the flat countryside there looked like in the 1870s. At that time most of the farms were built round all the sides of a square. Cultivating crops was the primary occupation. This is reflected in the two ranges of threshing barns where the grain was threshed and stored.
Jan 13, 2011 07:21 GMT Skansen The Mora Farmstead (Moragården) comprises buildings from the northwest of Dalarna. The ancient buildings show what farms in this district looked like at the end of the 18th century. The buildings testify to the plenteous forests, as all are of wood with wooden roofs which use birch bark to keep the rain out.