Summ aries in Engli sh Open-air museums. Tradition and future Björn Magnusson Staaf What purpose do open-air museums fill today? Are they merely remnants of a bygone time - a time when Sweden looked different from today or are they now mostly just charming and exciting playgrounds? The significance of open-air museums in the history of ideas is of course important, but their educational relevance for society is far from being a thing of the past. Educational narratives create encounters between old and new. In this way the open-ai r museums provide the conditions for thought-provoking insights and give rise to fascinating questions. A number of questions arise, taking us deep into cultural history and simultaneously with a bearing on today's politics: Can traditional, sustainable technology be made economically sustainable? What social and economic needs were satisfied then and now? What do we mean by sustainability when history has proved to be constantly chang ing? The answers to these and many other similar questions are not given - they are open for interpretation and debate, but we cannot ignore them. They relate toa living and real world around us, to a future that we and our children will have to live in .
Förkläde på en stol i Blekingestugan på Kulturen . En vilopaus på trappan till Alrik Jönssons gård. NEDERST: Tapet i Alriksg årdens huvudbyggnad . MITTEN:
