Kulturen

Kulturen in Lund is a museum in Lund, Sweden. Kulturen is Sweden's and the world's second oldest open-air museum after Skansen in Stockholm. The complete name of the museum is Kulturhistoriska föreningen för södra Sverige. In the past due 19th century, Swedish society become characterized by way of National Romantic visions of an idyllic rural society. As increasingly human beings migrated to towns, difficulty grew that traditions, ways of existence and crafts could be lost.

The end result turned into the emergence of a motion to guard know-how and artefacts. It turned into in opposition to this backdrop that the Association for the Cultural History of Southern Sweden, Kulturen, became born. The museum "Kulturhistoriska museet", based amongst others by way of nearby historian Georg Karlin, opened on 21 October 1882 in Kungshuset. Kulturen’s open-air museum opened in its cutting-edge location inside the heart of Lund, near the historic Lund Cathedral, on 7 September 1892. Its most important constructing, which dates from the early 19th century, came to be called the Nobleman’s House.