Authors

Shmeleva Olga A.
Open-air museums: modern approaches to preserving landscape and cultural memory

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №2 (90) June, 2025

The article considers open-air museums as a special form of spatial and cultural representation located at the intersection of architecture, landscape design and cultural policy. Through the analysis of two classic examples (the Norwegian Folklore Museum and the Maly Korely Museum) and two modern facilities (the Kudykina Gora Park and the Emerald Screen Pergola project), differences in approaches to the organization of cultural space are revealed. It is shown that modern facilities are focused not so much on reconstructing the past as on creating an emotionally and visually saturated environment interacting with the natural landscape. Based on the analysis of literature and open sources, the need for new design models that take into account the perception of space and its psychological comfort is substantiated.