Visiting Ballenberg, the Open-Air Museum

More fun than an indoor museum, and more mellow than an amusement park, Ballenberg mixes historical accuracy, engaging hands-on displays, beautiful scenery, and live demonstrations. You can enter most of the buildings, which are often fully furnished and filled with fascinating details like jam on the shelves and tools on the workbench. If you visit the farmhouse from Madiswil, make sure you look up at the ceiling where hundreds of Ballenberg's own recipe sausages hang, ready to be smoked.