Museum Arlergut

The Museum Arlergut stands in Abtenau, a village in the Tennengau region of Salzburg. It occupies a working farm first recorded in 1325 and farmed until 1980. In 1982 the farm buildings were turned into a museum to show how a Lammertal farmer lived before machines arrived. Inside the museum visitors see a complete Tennengau farmyard: the 19th-century farmhouse, separate barn, hayloft, herb garden and beehouse. Side buildings hold special displays such as the ornithological collection from St Peter’s Abbey in Salzburg and early fire-brigade tools. A third exhibition explains local beekeeping. The farmhouse walls are stone on the ground floor and timber above. A brick-lined cellar keeps food cool, and a tiled stove heats the parlour. A small hatch in the parlour ceiling warms the bedroom above. The barn, detached for fire safety, holds a deep hayloft and a threshing floor where farm tools are displayed. The grain store next door now houses the beekeeping museum. Nearby a working saw and a house mill, both driven by the Dachserbach stream, can be seen. Every summer a public sawing demonstration takes place.