National Museum of Agriculture (Czech Republic)

Website: https://www.nzm.cz/en The National Museum of Agriculture began in 1918 as the Czech Agricultural Museum. The institution includes six historic sites, the earliest dated to 1848, and collections that help guests explore technology, rural life, hunting, forestry, brewing and more.

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National Open Air Museum (Czech Republic)

Website: https://www.nmvp.cz/en/roznov The Wallachian Open Air Museum includes timber structures from the region arranged to guide guests through early rural life, village industry, and water power in mill villages.

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Estonian Rural Museums Foundation (Estonia)

Website: http://www.maaelumuuseumid.ee/en This foundation supports three institutions including the Estonian Agricultural Museum, the Farm Museum of C. R. Jakobson, and Tori Stud Farm

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AFMA: Fédération des musées d’agriculture et du patrimoine rural (France)

Website: https://en.museesagriculture.fr/ AFMA exists to safeguard and promote rural heritage in all its aspects (traditional tools and agricultural machinery, rural architecture and landscape and intangible heritage). “Agricultural” is taken in the broadest sense here, including wine-growing, stock-breeding, the cultivation of textile plants, uses of the forest, hunting, fresh-water fishing, an so on, in all periods.

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FDMA44: Fédération départementale des musées d’agriculture et du patrimoine rural de Loire-Atlantique (France)

Website: https://www.patrimoinerural44.fr/ FDMA44 began after the exhibition « Des charrues et des hommes », at the Château de Chateaubriant (July 2005 to November 2006), organized by the Department of Culture. It exists to support rural museums and staff (paid or volunteer) who may feel isolated, not supported by government, and under resourced.

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Deutsches Landwirtschaftsmuseum Schloss Blankenhain (Germany)

Website: https://www.deutsches-landwirtschaftsmuseum.de/de/deutsches-landwirtschaftsmuseum-schloss-blankenhain.html The German Agricultural Museum at Blankenhain Castle features exhibitions and working environments focused on rural and farm life.

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Milton Keynes Museum (Great Britain)

Website: https://miltonkeynesmuseum.org.uk/about-us/ The Milton Keynes Museum is local history museum document rural and industrial life on and around Stacey Hill Farm outside Milton Keynes, England.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (Great Britain)

Website: merl.reading.ac.uk The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) at the University of Reading uses its diverse collections to explore how the skills and experiences of rural people, past and present, help shape our lives.

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Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (India)

Website: http://www.intach.org/ INTACH INTACH began in 1984 in New Delhi to encourage heritage awareness and conservation in India. Today INTACH is recognized as one of the world’s largest heritage organizations, with over 190 Chapters across the Country. 

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Fries Landbouw Museum in Leeuwarden (Netherlands)

Website: https://www.landbouwmuseumfriesland.nl/ Friesland Farm Foundation and the Friesland Agricultural Museum preserve the history of agriculture, but also the influence of dairying on culture, the economy, the landscape and the countryside today.

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Stilfinga Jaermuseet (Norway)

Website: https://www.jaermuseet.no/ Jærmuseet is a family of museums at 12 different locations across the Jæren region, that give an insight into agriculture and building traditions, industry and city history, aeroplanes and life by the sea.

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