Skansen
Skansen is the oldest open-air museum and zoo in Sweden located on the island Djurgården in Stockholm, Sweden. It was opened on 11 October 1891 by Artur Hazelius to show the way of life in the different parts of Sweden before the industrial era.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Opening hours: 10:00 AM—5:00 PM
- Email: info@skansen.se
- Type: Theme park
- Description: open-air museum and zoo, showing Swedish folk culture and way of life in the pre-industrial era
- Also known as: “Open-air museum Skansen”
- Address: Djurgårdsslätten 49-51, Stockholm, 115 21
- Wheelchair access: limited
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Offerholmen, Skansen and Mora Farmstead.
Uppland Runic Inscription 871
Runestone
U 871 is a 12th-century runestone in the Rundata catalog, originally from Ölsta, a village in the county of Uppland in Sweden. It is now on display at Skansen, near Stockholm. Uppland Runic Inscription 871 is situated 130 metres west of Skansen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include King Oscar’s Terrace and Skansen city quarters.
Skansen
- Categories: open-air museum, zoo, working life museum, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Stockholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Svealand, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
59.32655° or 59° 19′ 36″ northLongitude
18.10509° or 18° 6′ 18″ eastElevation
44 metres (144 feet)Open location code
9FFW84G4+J2OpenStreetMap ID
way 377977591OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=theme_parkOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=limitedGeoNames ID
6942306Wikidata ID
Q725108
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Yue Chinese—“Skansen” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Սկանսեն”
- Basque: “Skansen”
- Belarusian: “Скансен”
- Belarusian: “Скансэн”
- Bulgarian: “Скансен”
- Central Kurdish: “سکانسێن”
- Chinese: “思間慎公園”
- Chinese: “斯堪森”
- Chinese: “斯堪森公園”
- Chinese: “斯堪森博物館”
- Chinese: “斯堪森博物馆”
- Chinese: “斯康森博物館”
- Chinese: “斯康森露天民俗博物館”
- Czech: “Skansen”
- Danish: “Skansen frilandsmuseum”
- Danish: “Skansen”
- Dutch: “Openluchtmuseum Skansen”
- Dutch: “Skansen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “متحف سكانسن فى الهواء الطلق”
- Esperanto: “Skanseno”
- Esperanto: “Skanzeno”
- Estonian: “Skansen”
- Finnish: “Skansen”
- Finnish: “Ulkoilmamuseo Skansen”
- French: “Skansen”
- German: “Freilichtmuseum Skansen”
- German: “Skansen”
- Greek: “Σκάνσεν”
- Hebrew: “גן החיות והמוזיאון הפתוח סקאנסן”
- Hebrew: “סקאנסן”
- Hungarian: “Skansen”
- Italian: “Skansen”
- Japanese: “スカンセン”
- Japanese: “スカンセン野外博物館”
- Korean: “스칸센”
- Latvian: “Skansens”
- Livvi: “Skansen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Skansen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Skansen”
- Norwegian: “Skansen”
- Persian: “اسکانسن”
- Polish: “Skansen w Sztokholmie”
- Polish: “Skansen”
- Portuguese: “Skansen”
- Russian: “Skansen”
- Russian: “Скансен”
- Slovenian: “muzej na prostem Skansen”
- Slovenian: “Skansen”
- Spanish: “Skansen”
- Swedish: “Skansen (Museum)”
- Swedish: “Skansen”
- Swedish: “Stiftelsen Skansen”
- Thai: “สกันเซิน”
- Turkish: “Skansen Açıkhava Müzesi”
- Ukrainian: “Скансен”
- Yue Chinese: “Skansen”
- Yue Chinese: “思間慎”
- Yue Chinese: “思間慎公園”
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