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Founded in 1891 on the green island of Djurgarden, Skansen is recognised as the world's first open-air museum and continues to rank among the most popular attractions in Stockholm. Its creator, the folklorist Artur Hazelius, set out to rescue and display the traditional life of Sweden at a time when industrialisation was sweeping it away, and to do so he collected more than a hundred and fifty buildings from every corner of the country, taking apart farmhouses, cottages, workshops, a wooden chur...