Cseri Miklós - Horváth Anita - Szabó Zsuzsanna (szerk.): Discover Rural Hungary!, Guide (Szentendre, Hungarian Open Air Museum, 2007)

The Living Museum

The Living Museum Preserving the treasures of vernacular culture "in mothballs" for the future generations is not the sole aim of the Skanzen. It also aims to show the people of today the practical elements of traditional knowledge, the customs, crafts, and values of past communities. The open-air displays enable visitors to experience the authentic atmosphere and scale of village life. Such authenticity is achieved by placing the furnished buildings in appropriate settlement patterns and recreating the whole environment which would have surrounded them at their original locations. Farm yard buildings such as stables, press houses, cellars, barns, apiaries, pigsties, maize-sheds, poultry-houses, workshops, mills, sacred buildings (churches, Calvaries, roadside crucifixes), gardens, mea-