Ryedale Folk Museum
The Ryedale Folk Museum is an open-air museum in the United Kingdom in the English county of North Yorkshire . The museum presents the history of the Ryedale district from the Iron Age to the 1950s.
location
The museum is located in the center of Hutton-le-Hole , which itself almost looks like an open-air museum. The small village is south of the North York Moors National Park and about 10 km NNE from Kirkymoorside . The museum grounds are located on the outskirts and the museum pastures merge more or less seamlessly into the surrounding grassland.
history
The museum was founded in 1964 on the initiative of Bertram Frank. He was also the museum's first curator . The property was left by the Crosland family. In 1995 the museum was Museum of the Year . It was also awarded the Guibekian Price and the Guibekian Award for the most Improved Museum in a Rural Area . Currently (2017) the museum is directed by Jennifer Smith.
Building the museum
The museum shows the history of the Ryedale district using various buildings. You walk through the museum from the 1950s to the Iron Age .
The first building complex, directly behind the museum entrance, consists of blacksmiths , a village shop with a post office , a pharmacy and village craft workshops in the style of the 1950s.
This is followed by various typical buildings of a village from different centuries and from different social classes: including a manor house , a farm workers' house , a long house that used to be typical of moorland areas , which, in contrast to the other buildings, had to be reconstructed as no such building existed anymore. In a WWII - shed an old school and a room for which are museum education and furnished in a former barn, the museum workshop. A furnace used to melt glass was excavated in Rosedale in 1969 and brought to the museum. This technology was brought with them in the 16th century by Huguenots who came to England as religious refugees from France and Belgium.
Also worth mentioning is the studio of the photographer William Hayers (1871–1940) , which was originally built in Monkgate in 1902 . It is one of the very rare surviving copies of a free-standing photo studio. A comparable one can be found in the Beuren open-air museum .
In addition, the museum has gardens, pastures for sheep, cows and pigs, a small swamp area and a field. The latter is currently also used to cultivate wild herbs , which are grown a few meters further in a special bed.
See also
- List of European open air museums
- Beck Isle Museum
- St Gregory's Minster
- Saint Nicholas Church (Bransdale)
- All Saints, Kirkbymoorside
- Saint Mary's Church (Lastingham)
- Saints Peter and Paul Church (Pickering, North Yorkshire)
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Coordinates: 54 ° 18 ′ 3.7 ″ N , 0 ° 55 ′ 3.9 ″ W.