Celtic Museum in Mitterkirchen im Machland, Open-air museum in Mitterkirchen im Machland, Austria.
The Celtic Museum in Mitterkirchen im Machland is an open-air museum with reconstructed buildings from around 700 BCE. The structures show what homes, workshops, and burial sites looked like and how they functioned in daily life.
The museum was created based on excavations from the 1980s that uncovered important findings from this era. These discoveries provide insight into a period that lasted from around 800 to 450 BCE.
The site reveals how people honored their dead and what objects held meaning in their daily lives. The arrangement of burials shows the different roles people held in their communities.
The site lies on a slightly raised terrace on the left bank of the Naarn and Danube, which protected it from floods in the past. It sits directly on the Danube Cycle Path and the Donausteig long-distance trail, so it can be reached on foot or by bike. The grounds hold 20 buildings, and the open-air layout means walking between them.
Romanian-born craftsmen, used to working with simple means at home, proved a stroke of luck for the builders: no screws, no nails, no technical aids were allowed, as 2,700 years earlier. All joints were made by mortising and hand-hewn wooden pegs, and the tables and benches followed old craft tradition.
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