The Museum of Tyrolean Farms (german: Museum Tiroler Bauernhöfe) is an open-air museum in Kramsach,

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. As at 2009 the museum had around 30 historic farmsteads and other historic rural buildings as well as their associated barns, sheds, alms and storehouses.

History

In 1974 the Museum of Tyrolean Farms Society was founded with the aim of transporting farmhouses typical of

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and East Tyrol, together with all their buildings and equipment, to a site of about and rebuilding them there. The prototype was open-air museums in

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, for example the

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in Stockholm founded in 1891. Initially the number of farmhouses was 14; when the museum is full there will be 50 individual museum displays.

The museum and its purpose

The museum farms are arranged along a valley that broadly represents the geographical situation of Tyrol. The farms are open and accessible and some of them are historically furnished and equipped. In each farm there is a detailed description of its construction, age and original location. As well as farms, the museum also has a school, a shooting range, a watermill, a smithy, a fire station and a public baths. The oldest farms are the ''Tierstaller'' from South Tyrol, a farmhouse with a Paarhof layout from before 1500 and the ''Alter Segger'' from East Tyrol with roots going back to the

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around 1400. The museum carries out research, education and building conservation. Visiting schoolchildren are given a vivid insight into the agricultural history of the Tyrol.

Gallery

File:Fliess 2009.jpg, ''Trujer Gregörler'' farmhouse File:Fliess innen.jpg, ''Trujer Gregörler'' farmhouse File:Hatting 2009b.jpg, ''Falkner Schnaitter'' farmhouse File:Hatting innen.jpg, ''Falkner Schnaitter'' farmhouse

Examples of farms displayed

* ''Hörl-Wetscher'', Walchsee, Kufstein District (1577) * ''Hackler'',

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, Kufstein District (1675) * ''Gwiggen'',

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, Kufstein District (1569) * ''Schrofenaste'', Zillertal, Schwaz District (1803) * ''Franzl’s Klaisla’s'', Ötztal, Imst District (1585) * ''Zenzl'',

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, Imst District (1716) * ''Burgas-Wechner'',

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, Reutte District (16. Jh.) * ''Trujer-Gregörler'',

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(1550/1646) * ''Falkner-Schnaitter'', Hatting, Innsbruck Land (17th-18th century)

Sources

* Brochures issued by the Museum Tiroler Bauernhöfe.

External links

Museum Tiroler Bauernhöfe
{{Authority control Open-air museums in Austria Museums in Tyrol (state)