More grass on the roof

I guess that when you use seaweed for your roof, you'll have to live with a bit of grass as well, as can be seen on this house from Brede Open-air Museum.

More details at Brede

I don't know if it was intended, but this façade at Brede Open-air Museum looks almost like a face to me.

Details

The houses at Brede Open-air Museum are full of details like this colourful piece of masonry.

A true countryside

It's hard to believe that Brede Open-air Museum is surrounded by suburbs no more than a few kilometres from central Copenhagen. The horse on this photo could as well be very far out in the countryside and the time could have been a hundred years ago.

Mother Goose

When visiting Brede Open-air Museum you'll have to go around the free-ranging poultry there. The geese might look cute, but they have a sense of ownership, so keep clear of them or they might hiss and peck.

Goats

Also goats are on display at the Brede Open-air Museum, though these are behind non-historical electric fences.

Portrait of a sheep

At Brede Open-air Museum even the sheep is part of the experience of having being transported back in time, though the tagging of the ears is a new thing.

Prayer

This inscription carved above the door to one of the houses at Brede Open-air Museum, is a prayer in Danish. It asks for protection against fire and thieves in the Lord.

Flax kiln

This is not a bread oven or a oven for smoking herrings, as some might think. No, in this one the flax was dried prior to being processed into cloth.

A dog house

No farm in Denmark, or anywhere else for that matter, is complete without at least a couple of dogs and a pack of cats. At this farm house at Brede Open-air Museum they have decided that the dogs should sleep in style as well, so the doghouse is in whitewashed bricks and with a red tile roof, just like the rest of the farm.

What is this?

Quite a few years ago we had a TV-show in Demark called "Hvad er det?", literally "What is this?", where the presenter, Piet van Deurs, had found some obscure, old things and a panel of historians and archaeologists had to guess what it was for. This one could have featured there, so I'll ask you, what is this?

Another water pump

Another water pump from the Brede Open-air Museum, also in working order of course.

For kids?

I sometimes wonder aloud about some of the stuff found at museums. These gallows at Brede Open-air Museum was one curious thing at this family-friendly place, but maybe they are used for unruly kids?

Water pump

Even the old-style water pumps works at the Brede Open-air Museum. And maintenance is the hard way too, as can be seen by the can and brush in the background.

No electricity here

Inside the houses at Brede Open-air Museum there's a lot to see as well as outside. All the houses have furniture, cutlery and tools, so you feel like you have been taken back in time. So don't expect to find a place to plug in your Iphone!

Watermills

Apart from the windmills in yesterday's post, Brede Open-air Museum also got a couple of fully functional watermills.

Mills

When the Danish King Christian 2. in 1521 invited Dutch farmers to settle on the island of Amager, the purpose was to get more vegetables to the queen and the capitol. One of the new things they brought with them from the Netherlands was a new type of windmill where only the top could be turned into the wind. These watermills are not for looking at, they are actually fully functional and are used to make flour for sale at the museum's kiosk.

A townhouse on the farm

One of the more peculiar houses at Brede Open-air Museum is this one; a townhouse with room for 4 or 5 families, each with their own "apartment". It wouldn't have been placed in a town but at a farm for the use of the families of the farm workers.

Grass on the roof

Imagine having to cut your roof like it was a lawn. On some of the houses at Brede Open-air Museum this seems to be necessary.

Poverty

Not only the big and rich farms are display at Brede Open-air Museum. Also poor and rundown hovels like this one from the Faroe Islands can be experienced.