Visitors can access the open-air site of the museum through the carefully maintained baroque gardens. Over twenty buildings – old farms, buildings for farm work and craft workshops from different valleys in South Tyrol from the 15th to the 19th centuries – show how peasant families, craftsmen, smallholders and day labourers lived, worked and mastered their everyday lives. On the meadows between the houses domestic and grazing animals can be found, while the cultivated fields, scented gardens, flowering balcony blossoms and old fruit trees complete the image of the rural economy and way of life. From the open-air site there is a view over all of Bruneck with its churches, castle and the Kronplatz ski area.