Peasant Museum (Bauernmuseum Mondseeland) description and photos - Austria: Lake Mondsee (Topic)

Peasant Museum (Bauernmuseum Mondseeland) description and photos - Austria: Lake Mondsee. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The name in English is Bauernmuseum Mondseeland.

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The museum complex, which tells about the peculiarities of the peasant economy, is located a few minutes walk from Marktplatz on the hillside near the Hilbergkirche church. The main building, called the Farm Museum, is a replica of a modern agricultural extension. Its exposition invites visitors to get acquainted with a variety of agricultural work, which were employed by local peasants.

Work on the farm did not stop even in winter. There was something to do for each season. The rich history of the peasantry that lived on the shores of Lake Mondsee is described here using images, text panels, and sound files. The entire exhibition can be divided into several sectors: background, which tells about the history of agriculture in these places, which goes back 6 thousand years, the pre-industrial period, which ends with the time of world wars and the economic crisis of the 1950s, and the current era. All exhibits tell about logging work, maintaining meadows and fields in good condition, harvesting, etc.

The museum complex also includes the Open-Air Museum, which contains the once widespread in the coastal zone of Lake Mondsee outbuildings. So, here you can see the wooden farm Mittertenhof, which includes a house and stables under a single roof. A feature of this house is the absence of a chimney. The smoke rises freely through the opening in the roof and dries out the grain stored in the attic. Various outbuildings (mill, chapel, barns), between which old varieties of fruit trees are planted, complete the ensemble of the peasant museum.

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