Skansen

The 10th of January, Astrid and me met the other people from the exchange in Tekniska Hogskolan, in Estocolmo, we were going to go together to Skansen.

Skansen was founded by Artur Hazelius in 1891. It is the world’s oldest open-air museum and is situated on the island of Djurgården within the city limits of Stockholm. The founder’s aims live on in the museum today. He wanted to bring the traditional rural culture to life by exhibiting furnished houses and farmsteads, cultivated plots and gardens and both domestic and wild animals.When Skansen started, its focus was on farming and Sami culture.


It was the museum intention, right from the start, to concentrate on showing the Scandinavian fauna even though a number of exotic animals from elsewhere were admitted to Skansen.  As a zoo, Skansen is primarily committed to showing Scandinavian animals. Some 75 different species and breeds of Scandinavian animals are represented at Skansen – more than anywhere else. There are traditional breeds of cows, pigs, horses, sheep and goats, geese, hens and ducks. And there are wild animals such as brown bears, wolves, seals, lynx, wolverines and elks.

I liked it very much.

Luis making weard things in front of the maingate.

Amaia, Clara y yo in Skansen's maingate.

A goat :)