Skansen

Skansen is kind of like Fort Edmonton Park, except that Skansen was already a historical park in 1891, when Fort Edmonton was still a fort.

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So the historic buildings aren’t basically identical to Grandma’s house. Also the guy who owned this house was definitely richer than all of our grandmas combined.

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The sami that live way up north build these storehouses on stilts to keep the pests out.

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They live in these goahtis which are kind of like tipis but with more peat.

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This is a modern summerhome that looks like a goahti because apparently the owners missed being crammed in a tiny space so they do it while on vacation.

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This is a windmill.

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This is a model of the houses poor people lived in in the 19th century.

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This is a rune stone.

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This is an old pill maker from the pharmacy.

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This is a delicious cinnamony thing.

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This is an engineering worshop from the 1920s

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This is the incoming power for it, which weirdly was 120V 60Hz. So if you’re ever time travelling to old Sweden you don’t need to remember to pack a converter.

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