Skanzeny - Muzea lidové architektury v přírodě v České republice a Slovenské republice – Dvořáček Petr (2019)

A significant part of our national identity is traditional folk culture. However, we hardly encounter it today in its authentic form. The modern urban lifestyle has also made its way into the countryside. Folk costumes and customs have been pushed off the village squares and onto stages, and most of the buildings of folk architecture have disappeared.
Open-air museums or museums of folk architecture in nature
Yet, we occasionally feel the desire to return to the world of our ancestors with its simplicity and natural beauty. A place where we can at least momentarily achieve this is the open-air museums, as we call them, or museums of folk architecture in nature. An open-air museum connects the environment of preserved or reconstructed monuments of folk architecture with other evidence of the traditional way of life of our ancestors, agriculture, crafts, and customs, often recently featuring live demonstrations.
The current state of museums of folk architecture in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Almost everyone knows the Rožnov Valašské Museum in Nature. Less known is that there are nearly three dozen larger or smaller open-air museums in our country. Similarly well-known in Slovakia is the museum in Martin, but interested visitors can also explore more than a dozen other museums in various Slovak regions. And the number of open-air museums continues to grow, as…