Moor- und Fehnmuseum Elisabethfehn, Peat and fen museum in Barßel, Germany.

The Moor- und Fehnmuseum Elisabethfehn occupies a 15,000 m² site on the Elisabethfehnkanal, with a canal keeper's house built in 1896 and a fen house added in 1993. Displays cover peat cutting with machines such as a 1904 locomobile, a white peat factory, and the narrow-gauge steam locomotive "Katharina". Three historic vessels are kept: the iron tjalk "Jantina" (1900), the wooden muttschiff "Johanna", and a pogge.

The museum was established to preserve the traditions of moorland settlement and peat extraction that defined this region for centuries. The Elisabethfehn settlement itself developed systematically, and the remaining buildings document different phases of this development.

The name Elisabethfehn does not honor a founder; it refers to the fen colony. A monthly demonstration baking in an old Saterland stone oven shows traditional foodways. The museum also displays the only surviving lock of hair from the Kreepen bog body, destroyed in 1945.

The museum sits along the canal and is easy to reach on foot or by bicycle, ideal for a half-day visit. The open grounds are walkable, though sturdy footwear is recommended since the ground conditions vary depending on the weather.

Among the collections is the skeleton of a boy from Esterweger Dose, roughly 900 years old, offering a rare glimpse into the people who lived in this moorland region during medieval times. Seeing this archaeological find in a peat museum connects past human history directly to the landscape itself.