Swiss Open-Air Museum "Ballenberg" - Experience the Past (1/3)

The Museum's website - available in English
http://www.ballenberg.ch

A stroll through the past. More than one hundred century-old buildings from all over Switzerland, 250 farmyard animals, traditional, old-time gardens and fields, demonstrations of local crafts and many special events create a vivid impression of rural life in days gone by. Ballenberg is indeed unique.

They demonstrate at least nine different crafts live every day: baking, basket weaving, bobbin-lace making, chip-box making, chocolate production, cooking, filet crocheting, forging, grinding wheat, hat making, knitting, making cheese, oil production, pottery, saddlery, sawing, shingle making, spinning, tatting, weaving and wood carving.

This video shows a woman while weaving. I asked her how much time she needed to set-up the machine. It turned out that it took her three days to set it up!

Please see also the other two videos I took while visiting the museum:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5r7jQyi6Ig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pyU6Qi8LzU

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