Lungauer Heimatmuseum

About the museum

The Lungauer Heimatmuseum is located on Kirchengasse in the center of Tamsweg, in the former Barbara Hospital. This institution for poor relief, with its chapel, dates back to the Middle Ages, was rebuilt after the fire of the market town in 1742, and remained in operation until 1962. The market municipality then made the building available for a museum.

The reason for the collection was the modernization of many farms around 1960: furniture and work tools that no one needed anymore were gathered by the museum's founders before they could be sold or destroyed. The house opened in 1965. It is run by the Lungauer Museumsverein Tamsweg (Lungau Museum Association); the chapel and a pavilion behind the building are used for changing thematic exhibitions.

The permanent exhibition spans several floors. On the top floor, tools from forest, construction and workshop show the hard work of earlier times, along with fabric production from flax cultivation to the shirt. A kitchen with an open hearth, a Baroque bedroom, chests and cupboards from the Gothic period to Lungau peasant rococo, and locks, keys and fittings illustrate the living culture of around five centuries. Further rooms are devoted to customs such as the Tamsweger Samson and the Preberschießen, as well as the Roman past of the Lungau.

Highlights

• Chests and cupboards from the Gothic period to Lungau peasant rococo
• Kitchen with open hearth and Baroque bedroom
• Tamsweger Samson and Preberschießen
• Roman finds, including milestones and the road station Immurium
• Historical tools from forest, construction and workshop

Permanent exhibitions

• Arbeitswelt – Tools from forest, construction and workshop, along with fabric production from flax to shirt.
• Wohnkultur – Kitchen, Baroque bedroom and a collection of chests show 500 years of living in the Lungau.
• Brauchtum und Geschichte – The Tamsweger Samson, the Preberschießen and finds from the Roman period in the Lungau.

Founded

1965

Operated by

Lungauer Museumsverein Tamsweg

Director

Klaus Heitzmann

Admission & discounts

Prices without a guided tour; the guided tour costs €6 per person (€5 with LungauCard or family pass).

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Getting there & parking

The museum is at Kirchengasse 2, next to the market square, between a café and the town hall.

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