This is he administrative building of the museum at Ballenberg. Old houses from all parts of Switzerland were taken apart and rebuilt here to preserve them.
Here's the very cute Richterswil house.
It's complete with kitchen garden, ducks and all kinds fo outbildings.
One can go inside and see the furniture and a kind of small hairdresser museum.
This is the bed of a young woman. It's in the cupboard of the family room. I'm sure she must have been very small, otherwise it would have been very tight in here.
There seldom was a nursery like this, most houses just have the crib in the parent's bedroom.
Different crafts are also explained and shown here.
This water wheel powers the saw:
While walking I also saw this butterfly. It wasn't shy at all.
This shows how carpets and farics are woven and how silk is spun.
There is some information about doctors and midwifes 100 years ago. Until the flu epidemic in 1918, there was still the combined job of surgeon-hairdresser.
This room is realy cute.
This house has landry hanging outside.
Not my idea of a 'quiet place'...
There's a big barn with a wagon, a hay loft, huge cow bells etc.
This house has an extra cheese-storage house. Inside, a man is doing some woodwork.
On the wall there's an old notice about what to do during bomber alarm (WWII).
This is an old festival pavilion that give a good view of the next old farm house. Ther were some authntic animals. I particularly liked one mud-spotted piglet.
The oldest house, from the 14th century had this huge keyhole.
And again a big vegetable garden.
Lot's of Swiss men had to have been in the military in order to obtain an official marriage license and were then married in their uniform. The bride of the earl 20th century traditionally had black wedding dresses that could long be used as 'good' Sunday dresses and later for the funeral.
In this house, jewelry is designed and made.
Here are ll the small tools.
Here's a big farm house after the image of the gentry's houses, built by a rich farmer in the earl 19th century.
It has a beautiful garden:
And another building for the cheese storage.
The useum is close to Interlaken, there are some beautiful water falls and grottos near here.
Different cow bells, the cows truly all wear them around here and one can pretty much always hear some closer or further away. One gets used to the sound and luckily the cows seem to move little in their sleep, so it's mostly quiet at night.
People often make their own sirup of mint of different plants, to put in their water.