Museumsdorf Niedersulz open air museum

What was it like to live and work in a Weinviertel village around 1900? The Weinviertel Museum Village Niedersulz invites visitors to immerse themselves in the everyday life of that time. Around 80 reconstructed objects from the Weinviertel can be admired, lined with colorful farm gardens containing all kinds of rare plants. Blooming front gardens adorn historic residential and craft houses, old varieties of fruit trees stand next to barns, and herb and vegetable gardens are found beside chapels or the village school. Goats, pigs, rabbits, and poultry—everything that belongs to a real farmstead—can be found at the “Living Farm.” The authentically furnished buildings are complemented by several exhibitions that explore life and work in times past. After a walk through the museum village, the rustic village inn tempts with hearty traditional fare. Many picnic spots, two playgrounds for children, and a museum shop round off the offer. Dogs are warmly welcome in the museum village (please keep them on a leash).

In the “House to Try Things Out,” all kinds of everyday tasks are ready to be tried out. These are tasks that were exclusively done by the female members of the household. How do you darn socks and stockings? How difficult is it to push a loaf of bread into the oven? What does it feel like to lie on a straw or horsehair mattress? And how much—or how little—light does a candle or a kerosene lamp provide? Guests can try all of this and more themselves in the cellar cottage from Erdpreß and get to know life and work in a smallholder’s house in the Weinviertel.

The educational format “Everyday Life in the Village – What Was It Like Back Then?” once again invites visitors every Saturday, Sunday, and public holiday from 1 p.m. into the houses, courtyards, and workshops of the museum village for hands-on experiences. Traditional crafts, customs, and the labor-intensive everyday life are presented. The program is varied – saddlers, shoemakers, and cartwrights demonstrate old craft techniques, and cultural educators talk, for example, about the saints of the farming families, the daily lives of laborers, or hygiene in earlier times. Village work such as woodworking, doing laundry, and school lessons is demonstrated and can be experienced up close.