{"id":9248,"date":"2014-06-17T09:37:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T09:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/?p=9248"},"modified":"2014-09-21T09:40:08","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T09:40:08","slug":"the-bauernhof-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesojournseries.com\/bavaria\/the-bauernhof-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bauernhof Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I can honestly say, that apart from the beach (and quite possibly the gorgeous Scandinavian Design shops – how I miss you Illums Bolighus!), the place I probably miss the most from our two years in Denmark is the Frilandsmuseet<\/a>, as we were lucky enough to have it quite literally on our doorstep. \u00a0 This Open Air Museum – set in a mass of beautiful rolling fields, features buildings of special historic interest that have (quite literally in some cases) been picked up from other parts of the country, and rebuilt with any and all modernised features removed and replaced with historically correct features instead… \u00a0 So when you step through a doorway here now, the houses and farm buildings (there are also shops, windmills, a post office and a railway station here!) are almost exactly how they would have been when people first lived in them – \u00a0right down to the utensils in the kitchen, and the linen on the teeny tiny beds… \u00a0Not tiny because people were much smaller in those days mind you (which they usually were) but because you were tempting bad health and horrific dreams if you slept lying down by all accounts…<\/p>\n

Add to the experience wandering farm animals a plenty, and many a garden to explore (often planted full of the vegetables and herbs typical of that period) and it makes for a fantastic place to spend a day with the kids, whilst giving everyone a fascinating insight into what life was like in days gone by…<\/p>\n

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One of the Museum’s many Alpine houses…\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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And guess what? \u00a0 We have them here too! \u00a0 On a recent trip to Schliersee in the Bavarian foothills, we discovered \u00a0The Bauernhof Museum<\/a>\u00a0 (the brainchild of \u00a0Alpine Skier and twice Gold Olympic Medal Winner Markus Wasmeier), \u00a0and this Open Air Museum is perhaps even more detailed than its Copenhagen counterpart – \u00a0albeit slightly more compact… \u00a0 Obviously the surroundings are very different in comparison, but what we have given up in terms of Danish beaches and flat landscapes, we have gained in lakes and mountains – even if those mountains can churn up the most magnificent storm at incredibly short notice – hence the haziness to a few of my pictures! \u00a0 This particular storm had us scattering in all directions for the shelter of the ancient houses – not that easy if you are carrying a cello (various festivals and events are held here throughout the year, and we happened to visit on a big music festival day with musicians taking up residence in many of the buildings, and outside (when it wasn’t raining!) to show off their talents)…<\/p>\n

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Whilst not huge fans of absolutely every museum that we stumble across, this one definitely went down well with the Small People, who half expected to find Heidi having lunch in one of the alpine buildings. \u00a0 There are also plenty of hills to expend energy running up and down, and things you don’t see everyday like wool being spun, and traditional hives full of bees… \u00a0They also loved the shoemakers \u00a0(no elves to be found though), and the blacksmiths – full of weird and wonderful creations…<\/p>\n

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Make sure you visit the electricity exhibition upstairs in the Lukashhof too, complete with fabulous full-scale rooms demonstrating the use of domestic electricity throughout the ages.<\/p>\n

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As you might expect from the Bavarian version of such a place, it also has a fully functioning brewery – the wares of which are sold in the adjacent reconstructed traditional Inn. \u00a0Here you can relax in the bier garten, \u00a0have some lunch \u00a0and take in the breathtaking surroundings…<\/p>\n

We loved this place, and now we know where this one is, I am sure we will be back again and again \u00a0– plus the bier is pretty good too…<\/p>\n

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Markus Wasmeier Open Air Museum
\nSchliersee,
\nBrunnbichl 5,
\n83727 Schliersee\/Neuhaus
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