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not the Sandvigske collections near Lillehammer, which in 1902 was taken over by 'the Society 

 of the Welfare of the Town of LiUehammer.' 



"The oldest and one of the biggest open-air museums is 'Skansen' in Stockholm which was 

 founded in 1891 by Arthur Hazelius as a branch of the Nordic Museum (Nordiska Museum). 



"1895 saw the first preparations for an open-air museum in Denmark, and in 1897 the first 

 building for the ptupose was erected in Rosenborg Garden in Copenhagen. The place was unsuit- 

 able, however, and the museum did not acquire the desired conditions until 1901, when the 

 Folkemuseum opened its open-air museum near Lyngby north of Copenhagen, where it is still to 

 be found. It has developed into a very large museum with a great number of buildings from 

 the whole country as well as from our former Swedish and German provinces. 



"The museum near Lyngby ( Sorgenfri ) is the greatest, but gradually we have developed quite 

 a number scattered all over the country. The best known is our Town Museum, 'Den gamle By,' 

 in Arhus. A number of open-air museums is now to be found also in Sweden and Norway. 



"As far as I know, no review of the history of individual open-air museums exists (I just 

 asked the head of the Lyngby Museum, Dr. Ulldal ) ; we have, however, a number of publica- 

 tions about the individual museums. From the Swedish literature the following may be men- 

 tioned: L. Svensson: Hembygdens arv (1929); Fran landskapsmuseer och hembygdsgarder (in 

 'Fataburen' 1931, sqq. ); G. Berg: Arthur Hazelius (1933); S. Erixon & A, Campbell: 

 Svensk bygd och folkkultur, 1-4 (1946-48)." 



POLAND 



After the reconstitution of Poland in 1919, chairs for the history of medicine, each 

 of them connected with an institute ad hoc, were estabhshed in the five Pohsh 

 Universities : 



Cracovia (Krakow). — Institute directed by Professor W. Szumowski (Isis 31, 

 183). 



PosEN. — Institute directed by Professor Adam Wrzosek (Isis 31, 184, 190). 



WiLNO (Vilna). — Institute directed by Professor S. Trzebinski (Isis 7, 243; 8, 

 559; 31, 184). 



Varsaw (Warszawa). — Institute directed by Professor Franciszek Giedroyc 

 (Isis 11, 564; 12, 437). 



Lwow (Lemberg). — No information. 



H. E. Sigerist: Forschungsinstitute (vol. 1, 402, 1930). 



Polite letters of inquiry addressed on 10 June 1949 to the five Polish universities 

 remained unanswered. 



ROMANIA 



— Bucharest — 



National Institute of the History of Medicine: 



The institute of Bucuresti was founded by V. Gomoiu in 1935. Includes library, 

 archives, and objects concerning the history of medicine and pharmacy (Isis 40, 182). 



— Cluj — 



1921: Institutul de istoria medicinei si farmaciei si de folklor medical (Institute for 



the history of medicine, pharmacy, and medical folklore ) : 



Founded in 1921 by Dr. Jules Guiart of Lyon; directed by Dr. Valeriu L. 

 BoLOGA. Publishes the Biblioteca medico-istorica; studies by members of the insti- 

 tute are published also in medical journals, Romanian or French. Descriptions by 

 BoLOGA in Archeion (9, 517-20, 1928). 



Cluj, the main city of Transylvania, was called in Latin, Claudiopolis; in German, 

 Klausenburg; in Hungarian Kolozsvar. Cluj is the official (Romanian) name since 

 1918. 



SOVIET UNION 



— Leningrad — 



Institute for the history of science: 



The All-Union Institute for experimental medicine in Leningrad organized in 

 1933 a Bureau of the history of science (President, Prof. K. M. Bykov). The activi- 

 ties of that bureau are the same as that of an institute: Library and museum activities, 

 organization of research, various types of publications. 



Henry E. Sigerist (Bull, of the Institute of the history of medicine 3, 92-93, 

 1935). 



