Ballenberg, Swiss Open-Air Museum – Discover Switzerland like never before! An unforgettable day out. From 10 April 2025, our historic buildings will reopen their doors and welcome guests to a unique leisure experience.

During the 2025 season, in addition to our historic buildings, traditional crafts and farm animals, you’ll discover a vibrant and blooming floral world along the 10 km interactive trail. Biodiversity you can see and feel.

After being meticulously taken apart brick by brick, the schoolhouse is now being reconstructed just as it was in the past. The bricks, which were separated and marked when the building was dismantled to indicate which storey they were from and which direction they were facing, are taken from where they were being stored outside the museum to the construction site, where they are sorted. Thanks to the detailed plans prepared beforehand, the particularly prominent bricks can be returned to their original position. This is especially important at the corners of the building, as they are very important for the static equilibrium of the schoolhouse. The whole thing resembles a giant jigsaw puzzle in which the masonry is being carefully reassembled.