Frilands Museet- Part One

Frilands Museet, or the Open Air Museum, is a collection of buildings from the 1600s to the 1900s that have been brought to this park in Lyngby from all over Denmark to exhibit what daily life was like for the average farmer, sailor, carpenter, etc. throughout the centuries. Each of the buildings is furnished as it would have been and there is even a synopsis telling about the family that lived there. It's really a wonderful place and the best part is that it's free! Ruby just loved exploring the buildings and seeing the horses, sheep, and pigs in their pens. It really is a place that you shouldn't miss if you visit Copenhagen in the summer months. Anyhow, I'm just going to give a little caption for each of the pictures to whet your appetite to come visit and see it all for yourself!

This is what many of the older farmhouses look like with stucco walls and thatched rooves. The ceilings and doorways were VERY low and at least half of the house was used to store farm equipment and house animals (in this case, pigs, I believe).

In the 1800s, or maybe earlier (I've forgotten) the king made a new law that every village had to have one of these "fire trucks" in case of emergencies. I can't imagine that they had a very fast response time though and I'm not sure how much good that smallish bucket of water would do anyhow!

This house was taken from what is now Sweden (and was then part of the Danish kingdom). The style of the home is quite different from the homes on Jutland and Zealand, most notably the color, building style, and sod roof.

This post mill is several hundred years old, but still in good condition. The mill is on a post so that the whole building can be turned to face the wind. The millers of the old days were very well off in their communities because they had a monopoly on all grain within a Danish mile (7km) of the mill.

Here is an example of some of the furnishings in a farm house. You were able to just walk right in with the furnishings and touch whatever you wanted. Ruby thought that this little cradle was pretty cool.

Well, that's about all I have time for today. I'll try to put up the other half of the pictures in a few days! Hope you are having a great day wherever you are!