Altfriesisches Haus, Historic Frisian house museum in Keitum, Germany.
This 18th-century museum features four authentically furnished rooms with original tiled walls, wooden ceilings, alcove sleeping niches, and cast iron stoves that once burned heather and driftwood.
Built in 1739 as a captain's house, the building was home in the 19th century to the teacher, chronicler and collector Christian Peter Hansen (1803–1879), who assembled the core of the museum's collection. The Kultur- und Heimatverein Sölring Foriining, founded in 1906, opened the house as a museum in 1908; a Danish source gives 1907.
The museum preserves traditional Frisian living culture through original furniture, household items, maritime artifacts, family genealogies, and documents that illustrate island life from centuries past.
The museum operates April through October Monday to Friday 10:00-17:00 and weekends 11:00-17:00, with winter hours November through March Thursday to Sunday 11:00-15:00, offering limited wheelchair accessibility.
The house's Frisian gable was built so that, in a fire, burning thatch would slide to the side rather than in front of the entrance, keeping the escape route clear. A hatch or window above the front door also let fodder be hauled into the loft and light fall on the attic.
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