Museum
Ballenberg, Swiss Open-Air Museum
Open-air museum of over a hundred rural Swiss houses, dismantled elsewhere and rebuilt piece by piece.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Ballenberg, the Swiss Open-Air Museum outside Interlaken, is about the houses themselves as objects: timber, brick, stone and tile that once stood somewhere else entirely. It follows a sixteenth-century farmhouse from Novazzano in Ticino, the architect Giovanni Buzzi, and a journey that ran into trouble at the Gotthard. Along the way you'll meet an eighteen-thirties schoolhouse from Unterheid and the corner bricks that keep its walls standing.
This audio guide was created using AI.