Freilichtmuseum Vorau

Om museet

The Vorau open-air museum was founded in 1979 and is still run by the association Freilichtmuseum Vorau, which aims to preserve, document and communicate the rural culture and working world of East Styria. On the grounds not far from Vorau Abbey, farm buildings, mostly from the eastern Upper Styria region, were dismantled and rebuilt true to the original around a central square.

The collection includes almost twenty buildings from five centuries: a farmhouse, the Marotti smoke-room house of 1706, numerous outbuildings and field granaries, a mill, a smithy, a village school and several forestry workers' huts. They are furnished with fittings, equipment and tools.

The collections document trades that have become ever rarer, such as carpenters, joiners, coopers, cobblers, stove-makers, linen weavers, ropemakers, shingle-makers and printers. There are also a historic home medicine cabinet, surgical instruments from Vorau hospital and a fully furnished dentist's surgery. Since 2018 there has been a museum shop with products from direct marketers in the Joglland; the café is housed in an old farmhouse parlour. The association also organises Advent in the Museum.

Højdepunkter

• Marotti smoke-room house of 1706
• Village school with classroom
• Smithy and mill
• Historic home medicine cabinet and dentist's surgery
• Craft stations from cobbler to printer
• Museum café in an old farmhouse parlour

Permanent udstilling

• Bäuerliche Kultur der Oststeiermark – Around twenty rebuilt buildings with furnishings, tools and craft stations, including a smoke-room house, mill, smithy and village school.

Grundlagt

1979

Ejer

Verein Freilichtmuseum Vorau

Entrépriser & rabatter

Members of the association (annual fee €15, families €25) have free admission all year. The museum describes itself as a partner of the Steiermark Card and the GenussCard. Museum guide €5 in the shop.

Tilgængelighed

Museet har ikke offentliggjort oplysninger om dette.

Børn og familie

Velegnet til børn og familier

• Familieomvisninger & workshops
• Opgavehæfte, skattejagt eller audioguide for børn

Worksheets for school classes and children's programmes; listed as family-friendly on the GenussCard portal.

Transport & parkering

The museum is located next to the abbey cemetery of Vorau.

Service & spisesteder

• Café
• Museumsbutik

Museum café in an old farmhouse parlour; museum shop with products from the Joglland.

Arrangementer & udlejning

• Lokaler til leje
• Bryllupper / vielser

Op til 120 personer.

Civil wedding ceremonies from April to October (up to 120 people at the house well, in bad weather in parlours for up to 40 people); sparkling wine reception and Agape (light refreshments) possible in cooperation with the Kutscherwirt.

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