Ballenberg Museum – Step Into Swiss Tradition

Two days ago my husband and I had the amazing opportunity to go to the Swiss Outdoor Museum called “Ballenberg”. It is an open-air museum that displays traditional buildings and architecture from all over the country. With that you get to see a huge amount of Swiss culture and life as it used to be in the 20th century. From the hair dresser, school and drug store to the sewing rooms, old fashioned toilets and charcoal making, you can find it all. The surroundings are just as interesting as the inside of the houses. There are lots of animals, fruit trees and beautiful gardens. It is an amazing place to learn more about how life was not too long ago but also to just relax and enjoy the outdoors. If you happen to stay in Switzerland for a while this is definitely worth a visit, doesn’t matter if you have kids or not. And since you are in the beautiful area of “Berner Oberland” you might as well check out Lake Brienz and Lake Thun.

On the sealing you can see sausages being smoked (hence the smoky room)

Metal working the old fashioned way

The mountains in the background, tobacco plants in the front

hairdresser

Back to school