Mora farmstead, House museum in Skansen Museum, Sweden
Mora farmstead is an open-air museum section within Skansen featuring historic farmhouses and outbuildings from the Dalarna region. The structures display how rural families built their homes and organized their working spaces.
These farmhouses were brought to Skansen in the 19th century to preserve the history of Swedish rural life. They come from a period when most Swedes still lived in the countryside and worked the land.
The farmstead shows how people in a Swedish rural region lived and worked, with authentic furniture and tools from earlier times. Visitors can see how families arranged their homes and what objects they used in daily life.
The site is part of the large Skansen open-air museum, which sits on a hillside and can be explored on foot. It is wise to wear comfortable shoes and allow time for walking between the various buildings.
The oldest building at Skansen is here: the Dubbelbod storehouse from Idbäcks in Malung, whose logs were felled in the winter of 1323/24. Locally called the "heathen house", it is built in an archaic log technique and its two rooms are not connected to each other.
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