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The question of the relative ages of the first open air museums has been settled. The first one was founded at the Royal Manor of Bygdøy near Kristiania in 1881, ten years before Hazelius founded his open air museum Skansen. Hazelius visited Kristiania in 1885 and probably saw the newly founded museum there. His visit has never been documented, but his friendship with the founder Christian Holst is substantiated through their correspondence. When Hazelius started his fund-raising campaign for Skansen, he commissioned an illustration with a remarkable resemblance to the view of the Bygdøy open air museum, published in that museum's guidebook in 1888. For more details on this, see the book by Tonte Hegard: Romantikk og fortidsvern, Oslo 1984.
Roede21:41, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I added that image, and Laplander should be understood as Sami people. I'm not sure what name is the must common in the English-speaking world; maybe it should be changed?
