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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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 the Horse (England)

Webpage: https://museumofthehorse.co.uk/ A museum of horse related utilitarian items from circa 600 BC to the 20thC. The collection covers most aspects of the use of horses and includes a section on agricultural horses. The large collection fills nine large rooms and two passageways in an old Posting House.

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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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National Agricultural Museum of Korea (Republic of Korea)

Website: https://www.namuk.or.kr/sites/eng/index.do Nongjacheonhajidaebon. This saying means that agriculture is the most important foundation of the world. The National Agricultural Museum of Korea exists to inspire people to grow and live together with agriculture at the heart of engagement.

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Carinthian Regional Museum (Koroski Pokrajinski Muzej) (Slovenia)

Website: https://www.kpm.si/en/ The central museum institution in Koroška, Slovenia, carrying out the public service of protecting movable cultural heritage in the twelve municipalities of Koroška, and also cooperating with Slovenes in Austrian Carinthia through special programmes.

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The Archives of Rural History (Switzerland)

Website: https://www.histoirerurale.ch/afaahr/index.php/english/about-us/170-the-archives-of-rural-history This independent institute, founded in 2002, is the first “virtual” archives in Switzerland focused on collecting and disseminating historical research on rural society.

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