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The
Hagen
Westphalian
Open-Air
Museum
(German:
LWL-Freilichtmuseum
Hagen
–
Westfälisches
Landesmuseum
für
Handwerk
und
Technik;
English:
"LWL
Open-air
Museum
Hagen
–
Westphalian
State
Museum
for
Craft
and
Technics")
is
a
museum
at
Hagen
in
the
southeastern
Ruhr
area,
North
Rhine-Westphalia,
Germany.
The
museum
was
founded,
together
with
the
Detmold
Open-air
Museum,
in
1960,
and
was
first
opened
to
the
public
in
the
early
1970s.
The
museum
is
run
by
the
Landschaftsverband
Westfalen-Lippe
(LWL,
regional
authority
for
Westphalia
and
Lippe
within
North
Rhine-Westphalia).
It
lies
in
the
Hagen
neighbourhood
of
Selbecke
south
of
Eilpe
in
the
Mäckingerbach
valley.
The
open-air
museum
brings
a
bit
of
skilled-trade
history
into
the
present,
and
it
takes
a
hands-on
approach.
On
its
grounds
stretching
for
about
42
ha,
not
only
are
urban
and
rural
trades
simply
"displayed"
along
with
their
workshops
and
tools,
but
in
more
than
twenty
of
the
nearly
sixty
rebuilt
workshops,
they
are
still
practised,
and
interested
visitors
can,
sometimes
by
themselves,
take
part
in
the
production.
Crafts
and
trades
demonstrated
at
the
Westphalian
Open-Air
Museum
include
ropemaking,
smithing,
brewing,
baking,
tanning,
printing,
milling,
papermaking,
etc.
An
important
attraction
is
the
triphammer
workshop.
Once
the
hammer
is
engaged,
a
craftsman
goes
to
work
noisily
forging
a
scythe,
passing
it
between
the
hammer
and
the
anvil
underneath
in
a
process
called
peening.
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