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Ballenberg, Swiss Open-Air MuseumDiscover 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.

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    Annual Theme 2025: Biodiversity – Ballenberg in Bloom!

    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.

    More about the annual theme 2025
    Der Ballenberg blüht!

    Over 45'000 objects

    In order to furnish the buildings, the Ballenberg Open-Air Museum collects objects from rural life and farming from the time before agriculture began to become motorised (before 1950). These items and related secondary information of all kinds relate to earlier ways of living, social structures and economic activities in the farming community, as well as crafts and commerce. Our collection currently holds over 45'000 objects.

    Offene Küche mit Feuerstelle im Freilichtmuseum Ballenberg.

    The Swiss Open-Air Museum is getting a schoolhouseConstruction diary schoolhouse Unterheid

    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.

    To the construction diary
    Mit dem Schulhaus aus Unterheid aus dem Jahr 1830 erweitert das Freilichtmuseum Ballenberg seine Sammlung historischer Häuser.

    Ballenberg
    Swiss Open-Air Museum

    Museumsstrasse 100
    CH-3858 Hofstetten bei Brienz

    +41 33 952 10 30
    info@ballenberg.ch

    Opening hours

    10 April to 2 November 2025
    10 am to 5 pm daily

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