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- Astor House Museum and Clear Creek History Park - A living history museum located in Golden, Colorado representing the years from 1843-1900.
www.astorhousemuseum.org
- Beckman Mill - Located in Newark, Wisconsin. The goal is to restore the mill as a functioning water-powered grist mill and museum within its historic setting.
www.beckmanmill.org
- Billings Farm and Museum - A living museum of Vermont's rural past and a working dairy farm, located in Woodstock, Vermont.
www.billingsfarm.org
- Birka the Viking Village - Permanent exhibitions illustrate early Viking life through the use of artifacts and detailed models. Tours of the original remains of Viking culture are also available.
www.raa.se/varveng/birkae.asp
- Bonanzaville, USA - A nostalgic, educational prairie village set on 12 acres with a collection that encompasses more than 40 buildings.
www.bonanzaville.com
- Boot Hill - The Museum was founded in 1947 to collect, preserve and interpret the history of Dodge City.
www.boothill.org
- Bucharest Village Museum, Romania - Descriptions and images of buildings at the museum.
www.cimec.ro/Muzee/Muzsat/expo_eng.htm
- Caesar's Creek Pioneer Village - History of southwestern Ohio during its settlement through educational programming and conservation of a collection of original log cabins.
www.geocities.com/caesarscreekvillage
- Calico Ghost Town - This authentic silver mining town lives on as one of the few original mining camps of the Old West.
www.calicotown.com
- Carriage Hill Farm and Reserve - Nearly 1000 acres of which a portion is set aside as a historical farm to experience rural life of the 1880s.
www.physics.ohio-state.edu/%7ediscover/Guide/carriage.html
- Conner Prairie Museum - Five distinct historic areas, a modern Museum Center and over 1,400 acres.
www.hccvb.org/connerprairie.html
- Crab Orchard Museum and Pioneer Park - Located in Tazewell, southwestern Virginia, a cultural heritage museum for middle Appalachians.
histcrab.netscope.net
- Ename - The site of a Benedictine abbey in Belgium which has been developed as an open-air museum, even as the excavations continue. Virtual reconstructions and 360-degree panorama.
www.ename974.org
- Ephraim Foundation - Include the site of the first landing by Pastor Iverson in 1853, the site of the first Moravian Church (1858), the Pioneer Schoolhouse (1880), the Anderson store and dock warehouse, the Anderson Barn and eight homes more than a century old.
www.envano.com/ephraim/history.html
- Ethnographic Museum of the Elbe River Region - Open-air museum at Prerov nad Labem was founded in 1967, as a reserve destined for permanent display of rustic architecture indigenous to the central part of the Elbe Valley.
fmv.vse.cz/cz/castles/PREROVNL.HTM
- Ethnographic Open Air Museum of Latvia - Historical dwellings and farm buildings of peasants, fishermen and artisans, including a old pub and a windmill, have been gathered from all of Latvia's regions.
www.muzeji.lv/index_e.html
- Florida Flywheelers Living History Village and School - A living history museum of old iron, antique farm machinery, steam engines, vintage cars, handicraft demonstrations and one room school house.
www.rustosis.com
- Fort King George - Built and operated in the 1720s the fort served as a southeastern military fort for Britain's Colonial Empire in America.
www.darientel.net/~ftkgeo
- Freetown Village - Depicts the lives and lifestyles of free blacks in the year 1870.
www.freetown.org
- Frontier Culture Museum - Offers 17th, 18th and 19th century European and American history, featuring appropriate furnishings, crops, animals, foods, and a staff of costumed interpreters that help create a living illustration of life in Europe before immigration to America.
www.frontiermuseum.org
- Gammelgården: The Folklore Park - Map, schedule of events, and contact information for the replica of a northern farm and village of the early 19th century. Dalsland, Sweden.
www.gammelgarden.com/engelsk.htm
- Garfield Farm Museum - Located in Lafox, IL. Intact 281 acre 1840's farm and 1846 inn being restored as a working 1840's farm with surviving unplowed prairie.
www.artcom.com/museums/nv/gl/60147-04.htm
- Genesee Country Village and Museum - An educational living history museum located in Mumford, New York, near Rochester, with a Nineteenth Century Village, Gallery of Wildlife and Sporting Art, and Nature Center.
www.gcv.org
- Hale Farm and Village - An outdoor, living history museum that features costumed "pioneer" interpreters who describe life in the Western Reserve during America's formative years.
www.wrhs.org/sites/hale.htm
- Hancock Shaker Village - Historic former Shaker community located in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
www.hancockshakervillage.org
- Heritage Hill Foundation - Heritage Hill Living History Museum is a 48 acre open air museum which chronicles midwestern history for 1672 to 1905. More than 25 historic and reproduced buildings are staffed with interpreters who show what life was like. Located in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
home.earthlink.net/~hhfdt
- Heritage Square - Established in 1969 by the Cultural Heritage Foundation of Southern California, Inc.
www.bob-taylor.com/heritage.htm
- Heritage Square Museum - Exhibiting a crossroads community of the mid-1800s, the museum serves to show visitors 19th century life through several historic restorations.
www.heritagesquaremuseum.org
- Historic Cold Spring Village - A 22 acre 19th century living history museum, located in Cape May, NJ. 25 Restored Historic Buildings. Interpretors display their crafts and discuss life in the 1850's.
www.hcsv.org
- Historic New Harmony - A small town, where the simple wooden structures of the Harmonists blend with the modern architectural masterpieces on quiet tree-lined streets.
www.usi.edu/hnh/hnh1.htm
- Historic Sauder Village - Living-history village in NW Ohio with costumed guides and working craftsmen.
www.saudervillage.com
- Historic Village Exhibits - The village and ships area at Mystic Seaport is an active living history museum with 17 acres of exhibits portraying coastal life in New England in the 19th century.
www.mysticseaport.org/visiting/exhibits/welcome.html
- Homestead Prairie Farm - The farm site is built around the restored Trobaugh-Good house located within the confines of Rock Springs Center for Environmental Discovery. Located in Decatur, Illinois.
www.maconcountyconservation.org/Homestead%20Prarie%20Farm.html
- Howell Living History Farm - Working farm for more than 250 years, since 1732 when Joseph Phillips purchased 125 acres from landholder, William Bryant. The Mercer County Park Commission restored the farm to its 1900-1910 appearance in 1984.
www.fieldtrip.com/nj/97373299.htm
- Jamestown Settlement - Explore 17th century life inside the palisade of a re-created colonial fort, discover the world of Pocahontas in the Powhatan Indian village, and experience the four-month passage to the New World on board re-creations of the three ships that brought the settlers to Virginia.
www.historyisfun.org/jyf1/js.html
- Korean Folk Village - Traditional Korean village exhibiting cultural and historic artifacts and buildings, including a marketplace.
www.koreanfolk.co.kr/folk/english/index.htm
- Legler Barn Museum - The barn houses a museum operated by the Lenexa Historical Society.
www.grapevine.net/~lhskc/barnpage.html
- Living History Farms - A non-profit, historical, educational foundation located in Urbandale, Iowa.
www.lhf.org
- Macon County Historical Society Museum - Contains the original 1830 Macon County Courthouse, an 1860 log home, blacksmith shop, print shop, 1880s train depot and will soon also have a restored 1924 Norfolk and Western Caboose.
www.artcom.com/museums/nv/mr/62521-18.htm
- Massing and Finsterau - Authentic villages and homes in these open-air museums in Lower Bavaria .
www.freilichtmuseum.de/english.htm
- Målilla Open Air Museum - A beautiful park with around twenty buildings. The Museum has approximately 3,000 things registered on its computer. In the old tanning house a large exhibition is displayed.
nywww.hultsfred.se/english/ma-park.htm
- McPherson County Old Mill Museum and Swedish Pavilion - Museum complex features restored 1898 flour mill, Swedish Pavilion from the 1904 World's Fair and buildings of historical note. Located in Lindsborg, Kansas.
www.lindsborg.org/oldmill
- Meadow Farm Museum - 19th-century living history museum which includes farmhouse, barn, 1860s doctor's office, smokehouse, blacksmith forge, stables, crop demonstration fields and farm animals.
www.co.henrico.va.us/rec/kcrump.htm
- Meadowcroft Museum of Rural Life - Preserves and exhibits the life on the land in rural western Pennsylvania throughout history. Includes an archeological site and a recreated 19th century village.
www.meadowcroftmuseum.org
- Mission Mill Village - Salem, Oregon's historical pioneer structures including the 1898 Thomas Kay Woolen Mill, 1841 Jason Lee House, 1847 John D. Boon House and 1841 Methodist Parsonage.
www.oregonlink.com/mission_mill
- Museum Roscheider Hof in Konz near Trier - Just outside Trier on the Moselle, which presents the folk culture of the European Saar-Lor-Lux region.
www.roscheiderhof.de/topframe-e.html
- Naper Settlement - A museum village where 19th century homes, shops and public buildings tell the story of daily life in Naperville as it changed from a frontier outpost to a bustling turn-of-the-century community.
www.napersettlement.org
- Netherlands Open Air Museum - The building has two exhibition halls, a museum shop, a coffee house with terrace, an information desk and a digital board which displays information on the museum and the collections.
www.openluchtmuseum.nl
- Neversink Valley Area Museum - Imagine what it was like to live along a canal over a century ago; located in the D and H Canal Park, Cuddebackville, New York.
www.neversinkmuseum.org
- Newlin Grist mill - A 1704 mill and 150-acre park dedicated to historical preservation and environmental appreciation, operated by the Nicholas Newlin Foundation.
www.newlingristmill.org
- Oberlin Historical and Improvement Organization - Tour features three preserved historic buildings furnished with historic artifacts and antiques that tell the story of life in Oberlin from its founding in 1833 to the early twentieth century.
www.oberlin.edu/%7eEOG/OHIO/O.H.I.O.tour.html
- Old Bedford Village - Authentic colonial village offering colonial crafts, exhibits and theatrical productions in Bedford, PA.
www.oldbedfordvillage.org
- Old Cowtown Museum - 17 acre open-air living history museum which recreates Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas from 1865 to 1880.
www.old-cowtown.org
- Old Fort Lauderdale - This project of the Fort Lauderdale Historical Society is a complex of three historic buildings, the 1905 New River Inn (housing the Museum of History), the 1907 King-Cromartie House (house museum), the 1905 Philemon Bryan House, an 1899 replica schoolhouse and a research/collections facility.
oldfortlauderdale.org
- Old Salem Online - This site describes the living history town that recreates the town of Salem, N.C. from 1766-1840.
www.oldsalem.org
- Old Schwamb Mill - The living industrial museum with a wooden mill built in the XVII century and hosting an oval-frame factory, since 1860. This is the oldest picture frame mill in the country and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
www.oldschwambmill.org
- Old Sturbridge Village - Recreated early American village in Massachusetts features over 40 staffed exhibits, including historic homes, craft shops, mills and farm buildings.
www.osv.org
- Old World Wisconsin - Outdoor museum of rural history depicts the lives and times of the pioneers who settled Wisconsin with some 65 historic buildings.
www.shsw.wisc.edu/sites/oww
- Open-air Museum Roscheider Hof - Museum of the cultural history of northwest Rhineland-Palatinate and the history of the region where three countries (France, Luxembourg and Germany) meet.
www.RoscheiderHof.de
- Pella Historical Village - Open air museum village celebrates its Dutch heritage through architectural models and antique Dutch heirlooms.
www.pellatuliptime.com/histvil.html
- Phillipsburg Manor - Late 17th century manor house with working grist mill, outbuildings, garden, oxen, sheep and cattle. Description and tour hours.
www.hudsonvalley.org/web/phil-main.html
- Pickering Museum Village - Located in Pickering, Ontario, this pioneer village recreates daily life in the 19th century with 14 buildings from the 1830s, including town hall, general store and a blacksmith.
www.cityofpickering.com/standard/lifestyle/museum/main.html
- Pioneer Arizona Living History Museum - Dedicated to the preservation of America's Old West frontier heritage. Located approximately 30 miles north of downtown Phoenix and encompasses 28 historic buildings spread out over 90 acres.
www.pioneer-arizona.com
- Pioneer Farm Museum - A nonprofit educational facility dedicated to hands on learning. Pioneer and Native life are represented for the public and for group tours into hands on history.
www.pioneerfarmmuseum.org
- Remick Country Doctor Museum and Farm - Explore and experience the richness and charm of early New England village life through our educational and hands-on programs. Located in New Hampshire.
www.remickmuseum.org
- Roman Open Air Museum Hechingen-Stein - A reconstructed Roman Villa Rustica from the 1st to the 3rd century A.D. Description of the site, walking tour and panoramic views. In English and German.
www.villa-rustica.de/indexe.html
- Ross Farm - What life was like on a Nova Scotian farm between 100 and 175 years ago.
museum.gov.ns.ca/rfm/textpage/history.htm
- Rough and Tumble Engineers' Historical Assoc - A living museum of steam engines, antique tractors and farm equipment in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
www.roughandtumble.org
- Schumacher Farm - A 40-acre living history museum near Waunakee, Wisconsin.
www.co.dane.wi.us/parks/adult/volunteer/friends/schufarm.htm
- Sherbrooke Village - Depicts a typical Nova Scotian village from 1860 to pre-WW1 with approximately 80 buildings, 29 of those open to the public.
museum.gov.ns.ca/sv/index.html
- Skansen - The houses and farmsteads of the countryside and the Town Quarters are inhabited by people in period costume, and living home occupations and crafts are on display all the year around.
www.skansen.se/eng
- Stonefield, 1900 Rural Mainstreet - A re-created turn-of-the-century farming village, Stonefield bears the name adopted by Wisconsin's first governor Nelson Dewey, whose farm occupied the land.
www.shsw.wisc.edu/sites/stone
- Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer - Located in Grand Island, Nebraska provides attractions such as Railroad Town, and its collections of pioneer artifacts.
www.stuhrmuseum.org
- The Amana Colonies - Includes the Museum of Amana History, the Community Church Museum, the Communal Agriculture Museum, the Communal Kitchen and Coopershop Museum, the Mini-Americana Barn Museum and the Industrial Machine Shop Museum.
www.iowa-city.com/amanas/historical/index.html
- The George Ranch Historical Park - A 480-acre living history site located on a 23,000-acre working ranch just 20 minutes southwest of Houston.
www.georgeranch.org
- The Gibbs Farm Museum - Historical society and museum presenting St. Paul, Minnesota, pioneer and city history 1833-2000, includes Dakota presence, on-site archaeology, guided tours and weekend activities.
www.rchs.com/gbbsfm2.htm
- The Historical Village of Dallas - Composed of 38 historic structures dating from 1840 to 1910 and boasts a working farm, Victorian homes, and turn of the century commercial buildings.
www.oldcitypark.org
- The Open Air Museum in Dumbrava Sibiului - Built up between 1963 and 1989, a scientific-documentary and technical collection and archives (pictures,photos, films) dealing with pre-industrial folk technology in Romania.
www.itcnet.ro/sibiu/engl/dumbra_e.htm
- The Open-Air Museum of Lithuania - The museum area is divided into regions, each representing the culture of its inhabitants. Zemaitija, Suvalkija, Dzukija and Aukstaitija are the lands, where present Lithuanians come from.
www.travel-lithuania.com
- The Pharaonic Village - History of the living museum of ancient Egypt, information about tours, and description of the exhibits. Located in Cairo, Egypt.
www.touregypt.net/village
- The Plimoth Plantation Museum - A living history museum of Plymouth, MA, which interprets the early settlement of the Plymouth Colony through 1627 Pilgrim Village, and Indian homesite, a crafts center, library, and agricultural center.
www.plimoth.org/Museum/museum.htm
- Ulster History Park - Located in Omagh in Northern Ireland. The park is an open air museum dedicated to the presentation of the history of human settlement in Ireland over the last 10,000 years.
www.omagh.gov.uk/historypark.htm
- Utopia in Nauvoo - Located in Hancock County, Illinois, and promotes preservation of French heritage in America, particularly artifacts of the Nauvoo Icarian period, 1849 - 1860.
www.nauvoonet.com/icarians.htm
- Vallby Museum - Located in northwestern Västerås, the open-air museum lies in the corner, closest to the city.
www.hotel.wineasy.se/werbeka/vasteras/vafrilue.htm
- Warkworth Museum - A local district museum specialising in displaying and preserving information, artefacts for and about the people of Warkworth.
www.wwmuseum.orcon.net.nz
- Watkins Woolen Mill State Historic Site and State Park - The historic area includes the Waltus L. Watkins family home, a 19th century woolen factory, the remain of the family's large livestock farm, their gristmill, the church the family attended, and the school where the Watkins children studied.
www.mostateparks.com/wwmill
- Wellington Farm Park - Located in Grayling Michigan and depicts midwestern farming during the Great Depression.
www.wellingtonfarmpark.org
- Westfield Heritage Centre - A living history museum with over 30 historic buildings surrounded by 324 acres of woodlands and meadows with several well-marked nature trails. Located in Rockton, Ontario.
www.westfieldheritage.ca
- Westville - Depicts an 1850 west Georgia village with over thirty authentically furnished pre-Civil War buildings.
westville.org
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