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        Museum Activities                        VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
        Every day, the Open-Air Museum           Practical Information
        offers activities associated with        Road map F4.
        traditional customs and crafts, in       Tel (03124) 53700.
        which visitors are invited to participate.   Open Apr–Oct: 9am–5pm daily.
        You can try your hand at lace-making,    & 0 8
        or on special days sing folk songs or    ∑ freilichtmuseum.at
        listen with children to classic fairy    Transport
        tales. Erlebnistag, or adventure day,    £ @
        held every year on the last Sunday
        in September, combines a picnic
        with instruction into the secrets
        of traditional craft skills, customs    Traditional needlework display
        and entertainments.    in Stübing

                                           Crucifix
                                 This cross was taken from a
                                granary in Oberzeiring, which
                              was used as the main food store.  Main
                                                             entrance


     Single-class village
     school from Styria
  Farm buildings
  from eastern
  Styria



       Apiary from the
       Enns valley                              Belfry from
                                                Schallendurf in
                                                Burgenland
                                         Barn from
                               Sawmill from   St Nikolaus in
                               Festritz, near   Burgenland
                               Birkfeld


















       . Farmstead from Western Styria   . Kitchen
       The main room in the 16th-century part of this house    This typical kitchen from a house in
       is the large “black room”, where the entire family used    Burgenland province, is whitewashed
       to gather around the hearth and stove to cook, eat    and chimneyless, with an open hearth
       and socialize.                    and traditional bread oven.




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