The author describes the oldest Danish skansen which has been open for over a hundred years. Frilandsmuseet, the open air museum, has about 40 buildings scattered on 36 ha of land. The buildings are mainly complete 18th and 19th century Danish farm dwellings. Individual rooms are fully furnished and full of period objects. The visitors to Frilandsmuseet can take part in traditional activities such as village dance, sheep sheering or making home preserves and watch spinning and weaving, candle making, bread-making, churning butter, pottery and coppery, etc.