Artur Hazelius: Mannen — gärningen

Abstract

Summary Artur Hazelius: the man and his work. On the 30:th November 1933 one hundred years had elapsed since the birth of Arthur Hazelius, the founder of Nordiska Museet and the open air museum Skansen in Stockholm. Hazelius was to begin with a teacher of the Swedish language and literature. He was an ardent adherent of the inter‐Scandinavian movement during the fifties and sixties of the nineteenth century. In the summer holidays he made extensive journies all over Sweden and began to collect folklore, peasant costumes, and samples of old handicraft etc. He was the first to see clearly that these aspects of national culture had no chance of survival in an industrialized world and that no time was to be lost in preserving its relics. In 1873 he opened the first exhibition of his collections, and during the following years new apartments were added. These collections contained objects from all the northern countries, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Iceland, representing the life not only of the peasan...