Museum Bezau

Om museet

The museum grew out of the collecting passion of Anna Katharina Feuerstein (1856–1935). She recognised early on that the region’s cultural heritage was in danger of being lost, gathered everyday objects and, together with the Heimatschutzverein, acquired house no. 181 in the Ellenbogen district. The local history museum has been housed there since 1920.

The listed building is a shingle-clad log house from the 18th century, typical of the Hinterer Bregenzerwald. From the Schopf (shed) the path leads to the kitchen with an open hearth, the parlour with a clay stove and the parents’ bedroom. In recent years the old house was complemented by a timber extension by Innauer Matt Architekten, built in the proportions of a “Wälderhaus” and mostly constructed by regional craft businesses; the project received the Austrian Bauherrenpreis 2025.

The museum is run by the volunteer-based Museumsverein Bezau. The permanent exhibition is divided into four narrative strands: the Bregenzerwald domestic culture in the kitchen, parlour and bedroom; the lives and craft skills of women, including traditional costume; the master builders of the Baroque era; and the question of how the Bregenzerwald sees itself and how others see it. There are also changing special exhibitions.

Højdepunkter

• Originally furnished living rooms: kitchen, parlour and bedroom of a Bregenzerwald farmhouse
• Exhibition area on women, embroidery home work and Bregenzerwald traditional costume
• The Baroque master builders of the Bregenzerwald and the history of their guilds
• Listed house with an award-winning timber extension

Permanente udstillinger

• Bregenzerwälder Wohnkultur – The kitchen, parlour and bedroom of the farmhouse show how people in the Bregenzerwald used to live and work.
• Frauen im Bregenzerwald – This section is devoted to craftsmanship, embroidery home work and traditional costume as a visible expression of women’s craft skills.
• Barockbaumeisterlich – The exhibition tells of the master builders who worked all over Europe after the Thirty Years’ War, and of their guilds.

Ejer

Museumsverein Bezau

Ledelse

Theresia Fröwis

Entrépriser & rabatter

10% discount on admission with the Gäste-Card Bregenzerwald. Members of the Museumsverein have free admission all year round.

Tilgængelighed

• Kørestolsvenlig
• Elevator: ingen oplysninger
• Handicaptoilet: ingen oplysninger
• Handicapparkering: ingen oplysninger
• Servicehunde tilladt: ingen oplysninger
• Taktile tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Rundvisninger på tegnsprog: ingen oplysninger
• Letlæste tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Synstolkning: ingen oplysninger

All exhibition areas are accessible without steps; the modern extension connects with the old house.

Børn og familie

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Transport & parkering

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