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Top of the list of Stockholm's finest museums is the massive open-air Skansen , an amazing conglomeration of architecture and folk culture from around the country. With 150 reconstructed buildings, from a whole town to windmills and farms, laid out on a region-by-region basis (daily: May 10am-8pm, June-Aug 10am-10pm; Sept-April 10am-4pm; 60kr June-Aug, 30kr Sept-May). Each section boasts its own daily activities - traditional handicrafts, games and displays - that anyone can join in. Best of the buildings are the small Sami dwellings, warm and functional, and the craftsmen's workshops in the old town quarter. You can also potter around a small zoo and a bizarre aquarium , fish cheek-by-jowl with crocodiles, monkeys and snakes. Partly because of the attention paid to accuracy, partly due to the admirable lack of commercialization, Skansen manages to avoid the tackiness associated with similar ventures in other countries. Even the snack bars dole out traditional foods and in winter serve up great bowls of warming soup.
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