Welcome to the Black Forest Open Air Museum Vogtsbauernhof

Experience the Black Forest with all your senses!

Culture and history come to life in our open air museum. Find out how people have lived and worked in Black Forest farmhouses over the last 400 years. As well as six fully-furnished farmhouses, where living quarters and the working farm are housed under one roof, you will visit a labourer’s cottage and around 15 outbuildings, such as mills, sawmills, chapels and storehouses, seven kitchen gardens and a herb garden, and you will see traditional breeds of domestic animals. Together they present the many different faces of life in the Black Forest: its architecture, traditions, customs and trades, and the way people have lived and farmed throughout the ages.

Experience history directly.
Whether making butter or milking the cows, or discovering the secrets of traditional Black Forest trades and cottage industries, guided tours through the Black Forest Open Air Museum Vogtsbauernhof, numerous interactive activities and special exhibitions will tell and show you all you want to know.


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