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Maihaugen Museum
1965
The new Maihaugen Museum building, Lillehammer (Norway). Maihaugen is the home of the Sandvig Collection, a large open-air museum with many restored farm buildings.
Folk Museums of the British Isles
Orton, W R
1968
This survey of twenty-five British folk museums comprises an introductory section which presents a definition, history and thoughts on the function of the folk museum, followed by individual descripti...
Wooden Casks
Langhorne, Richard
[1970]
Three small wooden casks from the collections at the Bolling Hall Museum, Bradford.
Portlider Door Detail
January 1965
Portlider detail on the door of a wooden gatehouse at the open-air Upplandsmuseet, Gamla Uppsala (Sweden). The door and doorposts are decorated, the door with a squared pattern typical of the mining d...
Lofthouse (Sweden)
January 1965
Wooden loftbod, or lofthouse, at the open-air Upplandsmuseet (?), Gamla Uppsala (Sweden). There are two rooms on each floor of the building.
Educational System
[1960s-1970s]
This subseries contains items relating to education, predominantly in terms of ethnographic research and the dissemination of historical and ethnographic information. This includes details of oral his...
Dwelling house at the Village Museum, Bucharest
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)
December 1974
Example of the oldest type of Romanian dwelling house, exhibited at the open-air Village Museum in Bucharest. The house is made of timber, with a thatched roof. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PH...
Dwelling house at the Village Museum, Bucharest
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)
December 1974
Example of a dwelling house typical of Gorj Hobita, the birthplace of the sculptor Brancusi, exhibited at the open-air Village Museum in Bucharest. The house is made of timber. Mounted on Photo File c...
Central Cruck from Longhouse
Brunk, Wille
16 June 1967
Central cruck of a long house from Stang End, near Danby (North Yorkshire). The longhouse was moved from Stang End to the Ryedale Folk Museum at Hutton-le-Hole in the spring of 1967. Mounted on Photo ...
Central Cruck from Longhouse
Brunk, Wille
16 June 1967
Central cruck of a longhouse from Stang End, near Danby (North Yorkshire). The longhouse was moved from Stang End to the Ryedale Folk Museum at Hutton-le-Hole in the spring of 1967. Mounted on Photo F...
Central Cruck from Longhouse
Brunk, Wille
16 June 1967
Central cruck of a longhouse from Stang End, near Danby (North Yorkshire). The longhouse was moved from Stang End to the Ryedale Folk Museum at Hutton-le-Hole in the spring of 1967. Mounted on Photo F...
Central Cruck from Longhouse
Brunk, Wille
16 June 1967
Central cruck of a longhouse from Stang End, near Danby (North Yorkshire). The longhouse was moved from Stang End to the Ryedale Folk Museum at Hutton-le-Hole in the spring of 1967. Mounted on Photo F...