Melstedtgård Agricultural Museum
The Agricultural Museum Melstedtgård is an open-air museum in the village of Melstedt on the Danish island of Bornholm , which shows the agriculture of the region before the beginning of agricultural mechanization. It is located on the north coast of Bornholm, directly on the coastal road a little east of Gudhjem in Melstedvej 25. It is the only open-air museum on the island of Bornholm. The museum is operated as a subsidiary of Bornholms Museum .
History of the museum
Originally it was a farm with around 30 to 45 hectares of agricultural land and thus a medium-sized farm typical of Bornholm in the middle of the 20th century. The operation was only stopped in 1982 and the rest yard opened as an open-air museum in 1984. In 2015, the ensemble was expanded to include a modern building, the Madkulturhaus, so that Bornholm's food culture can be practiced directly.
Profile of the museum
The special attraction of this open-air museum is that it shows livestock farming with live chickens, geese, pigs and goats. The harnessing of horses for carriage rides is also demonstrated regularly. The employees of the museum wear the traditional clothing of those who worked in agriculture at the time. The square courtyard consists of the stables, a building that has been converted into a cash register area, a museum shop and a small cafe, and the manor house and its utility rooms with the traditional interior (furniture, crockery ...).
literature
- Andreas Heller, Bornholm, Michael Müller Verlag, 2nd edition, Erlangen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95654-193-3 , pages 138-139
