Schwäbisches Bauernhofmuseum Illerbeuren, Open-air museum in Illerbeuren, Germany.

The Schwäbisches Bauernhofmuseum Illerbeuren is an open-air museum with more than 30 historical buildings from different periods. The collection includes farmhouses, workshops, stables, and gardens spread across a large outdoor site.

The museum was founded over 60 years ago and is one of the oldest open-air museums in southern Germany. Its buildings date from the 17th century onwards and reveal how rural structures developed across centuries.

The museum keeps old farm animal breeds, among them Zaupelschafe, which returned from Hungary in autumn 2000 after Swabian emigrants had brought them there in the early 18th century. Farm gardens mix vegetables, flowers and medicinal herbs, and fields in the Mittelschwaben group are worked by improved three-field rotation. Visitors can watch a Hafner at work and buy his pottery.

The museum lies in Illerbeuren, part of Kronburg, about twelve kilometres south of Memmingen in the Illertal valley. The grounds hold 32 buildings, so allow time to walk between the house groups; the chapel with its old grave crosses and the 1,000 m² machinery hall sit apart from the farmhouses. The site is run by a municipal association of the Swabia district, Unterallgäu district, Kronburg municipality and Heimatdienst Illertal e. V.

The Schwäbische Schützenmuseum, attached to the open-air museum, opened its new building on 1 May 2023 after a water damage cancelled the planned 2016 opening about a week before the date. It documents the shooting traditions of the Swabian administrative district.