Museum
Écomusée D'alsace
Open-air village of timber-framed buildings, dismantled beam by beam and rebuilt on reclaimed land.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Ecomusee d'Alsace in Ungersheim centers on September nineteen eighty, when a young ethnology student named Marc Grodwohl and a crew of volunteers raced to rebuild a condemned farmhouse on land where no permit could legally be granted. You'll hear how they invented a method of numbering and reassembling timber-framed buildings beam by beam, and the officials who gambled on letting them try. Look for the numbered joints in the timber frames as you walk the village today.
This audio guide was created using AI.