OPEN-AIR MUSEUM MOLFSEE

CONCEPT

In the Molfsee Open-Air Museum, visitors are guided through an idealized image of the cultural landscape of Schleswig-Holstein. Forest, water and the varied topography represent the terminal moraine landscape shaped by the last ice age. The museum grounds are shielded from the last foothills of the city of Kiel, but also from the surrounding landscape, by a green border of copses and woodland. This creates an almost undisturbed picture of the landscape, in which thatched farmhouses and farm buildings are embedded.



DESIGN

A new folklore museum is being built on the untidy southern edge of the site, which will also serve as a reception building for the museum's open-air facilities. The new museum building - with two visible structures - blends naturally into the existing museum landscape in terms of grain size and style. The new building adapts the image of the traditional large-volume gray thatched roofs of Schleswig-Holstein farmhouses and becomes part of the overall ensemble: the new museum building (large and small barn) with the deep courtyard, field barn, Drathenhof and Räucherkate. The outdoor facilities play a key role in this ensemble. They connect the individual parts spatially to form a large whole, they welcome visitors and guide them through the museum garden, past the building yard area and into the grounds of the open-air museum.