Grain Harvest at the Museum 8 / 9 August

This weekend, everything at the museum revolves around the harvest of rye, wheat, spelt, and einkorn. In the museum’s fields, the grain is cut using scythes, sickles, and a reaper-binder. Performers from the “Farm Life 1910” program demonstrate harvesting techniques and work steps from different historical periods. Children can help gather the valuable crops and learn how important – and how hard – fieldwork once was for those their age. Meanwhile, motorized harvesting machines elsewhere in the museum illustrate how dramatically harvesting processes changed over the course of the 20th century.