Description of the attraction
Burgenland was formed as a result of the merger of three Old Hungarian committees - Wieselburg, Odenburg and Eisenburg. The Burgenland Land Museum is located in Eisenstadt at Museumgasse 1-5. On three floors of the museum, exhibits are presented that tell about the history and culture of this Austrian land from ancient times to the present day.
The exhibition on the ground floor is called Lebensbilder, which literally means "pictures of life", and consists of numerous works by local artists, reflecting the main historical moments of the region.
The second floor is called Lebensroyme, that is, "space of life". Here music helps to make an excursion into history. Visitors are offered special turntables with headphones, since each exhibition - from the exhibition of fossils of ancient animals to the composition representing the modern Neusiedlersee-Seewinkel National Park - is dedicated to a separate melody.
The basement, called Lebenspuren - "traces of life", tells the story of Burgenland from the 6th century BC to the end of the Roman era. A separate room is dedicated to the so-called Roman Amber Route - one of the most significant trade routes of antiquity, which allowed the Romans to get to the lower reaches of the Danube, bypassing the inaccessible Alpine passes.
Every day, the museum conducts special excursions for young visitors, during which they can not only get acquainted with the local history, but also literally touch it with their hands: try to assemble a jug from fragments of clay, touch the piano keys of the century before last, read a newspaper from the times of the First world war.
