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Almmuseum Ardning

Ardning, Styria

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About 35 years ago, members began collecting Alm (mountain pasture) equipment and gathering it in this Prentlhütte. Today, a considerable number of hay-making tools, butter and cheese-making utensils, as well as bells and traditional objects can be found here. In addition, the Prentlhütte as a building is a kind of living museum. From the anteroom, you enter the parlor to the right. Opposite, clearly visible on the doorframe, is the smoke kitchen, whose brick stove is still regularly heated with an open fire until the smoke rises through the door into the open anteroom and past the Prentlglocke in the tower into the open air. The hut and its furnishings seem to have merged into a museum that illustrates the former life on the Alm. The Almmuseum can be reached after only a twenty-minute walk from the Ardning Alm, which is accessible by car.