{{Short description|Museum that deals with folk culture and heritage}} {{Redirect|Folklore museum|specific museums called as such|Folklore Museum}} [[File:Fife Folk Museum exhibit, Ceres.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Fife Folk Museum]] exhibit.]] [[File:Suomussalmen kotiseutumuseo13.jpg|thumb|200px|A [[local museum]] in [[Suomussalmi]]]]
A '''folk museum'''<ref>{{cite web| url=https://glosbe.com/en/en/folk%20museum | title=Folk museum | publisher=Glosbe| accessdate=15 November 2015 }}</ref> is a [[museum]] that deals with [[folk culture]] and [[Cultural heritage|heritage]]. Such museums cover local life in rural communities. A folk museum typically displays historical objects that were used as part of the people's everyday lives.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/folk-museum | title=Folk museum | work=[[Oxford Learner's Dictionary]] | publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] | accessdate=15 November 2015}}</ref> Examples of such objects include clothes and tools. Many folk museums are also [[open-air museum]]s and some cover [[rural history]].
==History== The concept of open-air museums originated in [[Scandinavia]] in the late 19th century. The Swedish folklorist [[Artur Hazelius]] founded what was to become the [[Nordic Museum]] in 1873 to house an ethnographic collection of peasant furniture, clothes, tools, toys and other objects. He later set up the open-air museum [[Skansen]] in Stockholm in 1891, where he erected about 150 houses and farmsteads from all over Sweden, transporting them piece by piece and rebuilding them to provide a unique picture of traditional Sweden. Skansen became a model for other open-air establishments in Northern Europe.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Artur Hazelius and the ethnographic display of the Scandinavian peasantry: a study in context and appropriation|journal = European Review of History: Revue Européenne d'Histoire |volume = 19|issue = 2|pages = 229–248|author= Daniel Alan DeGroff |doi= 10.1080/13507486.2012.662947|year = 2012|s2cid = 143535084}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.skansen.se/ |title=Skansen |publisher=Skansen |language=Swedish| accessdate=3 May 2021}}</ref>
==Examples== The [[National Folk Museum of Korea]] was established in 1945 and provides a history of the Korean people from prehistory to the early 20th century, with over 98,000 artefacts housed in three main exhibition halls. It includes open-air exhibits, such as replicas of typical village structures, grinding mills, huts for rice storage, and pits where [[kimchi]] pots were stored over winter.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://artsandculture.google.com/story/6-folk-museums-around-the-world/GwUB2I2OghMAvg?hl=en |title=6 Folk Museums Around the World |publisher=Google Arts & Culture |accessdate=3 May 2021}}</ref>
Among the most notable folk museums are: *[[Craft and Folk Art Museum]], on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, now also known as "Craft Contemporary" *[[Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum]], adjacent to historic Williamsburg, Virginia, asserted to be the earliest-opened still-operating museum of American folk art
==See also== * [[Local museum]] * [[Open-air museum]]
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==External links== * {{commons category-inline|Folk museums}}
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