Bokrijk Provincial Domain, commonly referred to as the Open Air Museum Bokrijk, is a major cultural heritage site in the Province of Limburg near Genk. The site houses an open-air museum that presents rural Flemish life from roughly a century to a century-and-a-half ago by displaying a large collection of historical buildings relocated from across Flanders. The broader domain encompasses an arboretum/botanical garden, nature reserve, playground, and public parkland. The supplied source set focuses on the museum's history, visitor information, botanical collections, and role as a leading open-air museum in Belgium and Flanders. One source gives seasonal opening dates for the open-air museum component and notes that the rest of the provincial domain remains open year-round. The materials include guidebook, promotional, and institutional references but do not include folklore collections, oral-history reports, newspaper accounts, or paranormal-investigation material. Regarding the specific target of a haunted lime tree and a haunted chapel, the provided research notes contain no references to apparitions, auditory phenomena, physical effects, named spirits, witness statements, or investigative explanations. Consequently, no paranormal claims about a lime tree or chapel at Bokrijk can be corroborated from the supplied sources. The site remains significant for its cultural, historical, and botanical values and is an active public amenity used for events and visits.
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- [2]Open air museum - New World Encyclopedia. New World Encyclopedia: Open air museumwiki
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- [4]9th European Heathland. Event/publication noting landscape and site contexts (cited in research notes)other
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- [6]Belgium 2011 - International Clematis Society. International Clematis Society: notes on visits and botanical interestother
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- [9]Meeting Bokrijk - Postcrossing Community. Postcrossing community event listing for meetings at Bokrijkother
- [10]207 Squadron RAF History - Belgium 2005 - Bokrijk Museum visit. 207 Squadron RAF history site: visit notes for Bokrijk Museumother