Mountain farmers’ museum Wildschönau

The historic walls of the “z’Bach” museum in Wildschönau would have much to tell about farmers’ lives in Tyrol.

Map See map
D_Holzbrunnen_Bergbauernmuseum_zBach.JPG

The farmstead z’Bach dates back to the 13th century.
© Bergbauernmuseum z’Bach
D_P1000496_Bergbauernmuseum_zBach.jpg

In the museum, about 1,200 pieces of exhibits make you get an insight into the hard farmers’ lives.
© Bergbauernmuseum z’Bach
D_kinder_brotbacken_Bergbauernmuseum_zBach.jpg

At the farmers’ market, fresh farmers’ bread is offered, and also kids love to lend a helping hand.
© Bergbauernmuseum z’Bach
D_Korbflechter_Bergbauernmuseum_zBach.jpg

Also basket weaving can be watched at work in the “Market in the Museum”.
© Bergbauernmuseum z’Bach
D_schnitzer_Bergbauernmuseum_zBach.jpg

Particularly impressive are the woodcarvings.
© Bergbauernmuseum z’Bach
1508319881_D_TirolWerbung_730694_Bergbaumuseum.jpg

Also special music events and private celebrations are held in the mountain farmers’ museum.
© Wildschönau Tourismus
1508320088_D_Bergbaumuseum_987674.JPG

Traditional autumn festival at the mountain farmers’ museum.
© Wildschönau Tourismus
D_kiachl_Bergbauernmuseum_zBach.jpg

The farm-women of the Wildschönau serve regional treats for your palate that you shouldn’t miss at all.
© Bergbauernmuseum z’Bach
D_Tiroler_dreierlei_Bergbauernmuseum_zBach.jpg

Tyrolean folk songs resound in the museum.
© Bergbauernmuseum z’Bach
D_tenn_rot1_Bergbauernmuseum_zBach.jpg

Up to 150 people can be hosted by the barn floor, called “Museum’s Tenn”.
© Bergbauernmuseum z’Bach
B_hochzeit_Bergbauernmuseum_zBach.jpg

An unforgettable ambience for weddings: the event hall of the farmers’ museum.
© Bergbauernmuseum z’Bach
D_Bergadvent1_Bergbauernmuseum_zBach.jpg

A highlight in the course of the year is the mountain Advent with Christmas crib exhibition and handicrafts market.
© Bergbauernmuseum z’Bach
1508320180_D_Bergbaumuseum_562846.JPG

The farmstead z’Bach in winter months.
© Wildschönau Tourismus

In a beautiful ancient farmstead dating back to 1795, about 1,200 exhibits teach you more about the hard farmers’ lives in Tyrol. Either wooden butter forms or scythes, copper jars or old pens, there is much to see! More exhibits are presented in theme specific rooms: one of them is dedicated to the minister Thaler, who in the 1930s emigrated to Dreizehnlinden in Brasil, another to the family of actors Hörbiger, originating in the high valley of the Wildschönau.

But not only the museum deserves to be visited. In the barn floor, in which in winter corn was threshed, as well as in the cowshed, there are events taking place on a regular basis. Moreover the farm-women of the Wildschönau offer local delicacies that you absolutely have to taste. Very popular is also the farmer’s market taking place every Thursday afternoon in summertime.

A visit to the museum can be well combined with a walk on the Franziskus trail. Basing on “The Canticle of the Sun by St. Francis of Assisi”, the sculptor Hubert Flörl created nine bronze stations along this path. It can be walked the whole day round and stretches between Niederau and Oberau, taking past the mountain farmers’ museum. An ideal excursion destination!

Where: in Oberau, Wildschönau
Characteristics: an interesting insight into the life of Tyrolean farmers, handicrafts market in summertime
Further information: phone: +43 5339 20055 / 664 73745300, info@bergbauernmuseum.at

Winter opening hours: from December 25, 2019, to April 8, 2020
Wednesdays from noon time to 5 pm

Summer opening hours: from May 20 to September 13, 2020
May 20 - July 1, 2020:
Wednesdays and Sundays from noon time to 5 pm
July 2 - Sept 13, 2020:
Mondays, Wednesdays and Sundays from noon time to 5 pm

Thursdays from noon time to 5 pm handicraft market at the museum (May 28 - Oct 1, 2020)

Autumn opening hours: from September 14 to October 18, 2020
Wednesdays and Sundays from noon time to 5 pm

Ticket (adults):
3.80 Euros / 5.60 Euros (with handicraft market)

Suggest an edit/correction