Kulturen

Kulturen main building

Kulturen is a museum in Lund, Sweden. Kulturen is Sweden's second oldest open-air museum after Skansen in Stockholm. The complete name of the museum is Kulturhistoriska föreningen för södra Sverige.

History

Skårby Runestones

Kulturen was founded in 1892 by local historian, Georg Karlin who also was the managing director until 1933. Karlin was a contemporary of Arthur Hazelius who had opened the open-air museum Skansen just a year before. Skansen had become the model for other open-air museums in Northern Europe.[1][2]

Georg Karlin saw the old farming society disappearing and wanted to preserve its buildings, together with tools, furniture and clothes of the time. Karlin also rescued objects from the medieval period in Lund. In the 1890s, when the city dug its first sewers, he began to collect the finds from the excavations. Through a generous donation, Karlin was also able to acquire a farm in Östarp east of Lund in the 1920s. He created a museum in the middle of the existing cultural landscape.

The main museum is located near the historic Lund Cathedral. The museum consists of a traditional museum together with an open-air museum with over 30 different buildings. Kulturen has a large and unique collection of more than two million items, including an important collection of historic jewellery from the traditional province of Scania.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Artur Hazelius, Biography (Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon)
  2. ↑ The creation of Skansen (Skansen)
  3. ↑ Georg Karlin (Svenska kyrkan i Lund)
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Coordinates: 55°42′16.5″N 13°11′47″E / 55.704583°N 13.19639°E / 55.704583; 13.19639


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