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Room with several tables set with red tablecloths and white plates. The view is through the windows to the beer garden outside

In addition to its historical buildings, the open-air museum presents special exhibitions on several thousand square meters.

Exhibitions

In the museum you can look around the original historical buildings, as they once stood in their villages. The interiors contain furniture and household objects from their time, allowing visitors to view the daily lives of their dwellers.

Group of buildings

Half-timbered houses to the right of a cobblestone path

The wide program offers activities for all age groups; from audio-guide tours, through guided tours through the grounds, holiday specials, workshops and courses for adults and children, orga-nized birthday events and a children’s guide to the museum. With special programs for schools, classes can find out, in a few hours or in a whole week, what the daily life of men and women in the Rhineland used to look like. We can offer guided tours through the grounds and exhibitions in four different languages.

Programs

Children run across a meadow, in the background you can see half-timbered houses

As a museum of everyday cultural history in the Rhineland, the collection includes not only the open-air area with historical buildings but also an inventory of over 200,000 objects from the area of rural and small-town everyday life in the Rhineland.

Collection

Brown to-go mug with yellow stripes and inscription

Event calendar of the LVR-open-air museum in Kommern

Events

Milchbar from Brühl Highlight Counter in the Milk bar with white and blue facing

The milk bar on the Rhineland market square was originally built in the summer of 1955 in Brühl on Carl-Schurz-Strasse. In the early years, the milk bar was a very popular meeting place, especially among young people in Brühl. In the decades that followed, however, the milk bar went through an eventful history More about the history of the milk bar

Events at the Open-air museum

Auf dem Foto hängt eine Fledermaus kopfüber an einer Mauer. Es handelt sich um ein braunes Langohr

Fledermäuse in und an (historischen) Gebäuden

09.05, 18:30 Uhr

Um Fledermäuse ranken sich zahlreiche Mythen und Geschichten. Gehen Sie mit den Expertinnen und Experten auf Spurensuche durch das Gelände und erfahren Sie spannende Fakten zu diesen faszinierenden, nachtaktiven [...]

further events

Who is in the museum today?

Thursday, 25. December 2025

Events at the Open-air museum

Fledermäuse in und an (historischen) Gebäuden

Who is in the museum today?

Der Drechsler

Der Imker

Der Kriegsheimkehrer

Der Ortsvorsteher

Der Schmied

Der Stellmacher

Die Avon-Beraterin

Die Bäuerin

Die Feine Dame aus der Stadt

Die Hausfrau in den 70ern

Die Hauswirtschafterinnen

Die Korbmacherin

Die Mausefallenkrämerin

Die Steinmetzin

Die Weberin

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