Description of the attraction
The museum complex, which tells about the peculiarities of the peasant economy, is located a few minutes walk from Marktplatz on a 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 with the help of images, text panels, sound files. The entire exhibition can be divided into several sectors: prehistory, which tells about the history of agriculture in these places, which dates 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 proper condition, harvesting, etc.
The museum complex also includes the Open-Air Museum, where the once widespread household buildings in the coastal zone of Lake Mondsee are collected. 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.
