The Lindwurm Museum invites you to travel through time!
Feel what it was like to live in the 19th century and find out how masters and their servants lived and worked.
Take a look behind the scenes!
The "Lindwurm" house is in the middle of Stein am Rhein's old town district. Its façade in the Empire style is decorated with a dragon, which appears again in the wonderful interior courtyard connecting the living quarters with the agricultural part of the building. The front part of the house dates back to the year 1279. The rear part of the house with its leafy walkways has hardly changed since 1712.
Experience a world of living history!
In this space of over 1500 square meters, you have the opportunity to see firsthand how a middle-class family lived and ran their household in about 1850. The visit starts at the front of the house and continues through four floors - ranging from the rocky cellar, where supplies are kept, continuing through the kitchen, the elegant Biedermeier salon and, finally, the attic, where a canopied bed and sledges bear witness to the building's occupants. The rear house comprises the cowshed, the servant's quartersand the grain store on the fifth floor.
A fairytale museum with genuine charm!
The rooms of the museum are arranged so that everything could come to life again at any moment. It just looks as if the people who used to live there have gone out for a moment. Rays of sunshine dance on the freshly laundered washing, typical Swiss Appenzeller Spitzhauben poultry scratch in the yard, a table is laid ready to welcome honoured guests, aromatic herbs are drying ...
Both adults and children are welcome!
The Lindwurm Museum is not only fascinating for adults. It is particularly suitable for families. A particularly popular attraction is the children's nursery with its historical toys and a playroom, where visitors can, for example, lie on straw mattresses to see what it feels like and try on the heavy linen smocks and rough working shoes.
