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54 Welcome to the U.S.Army Garrison Grafenwoehr. Experience everyday history The open – air museum of the Upper Palatinate Administrative District in Neusath – Perschen near Nabburg offers an insight into country and farm- ing life of earlier days. There are now 50 re-erected buildings, showing the various ways people lived, worked and built, according to region and social standing. The houses were originally occupied by farmers, smallholders, peasants, day laborers, weavers, herdsmen, millers, huntsmen and nobles. The buildings, which could no longer be kept on their original sites, have been transferred to the museum as cultural and historic evidence. They are furnished in the authentic way. Qualified museum workers cultivate the fields and woods with horses, oxen, cows and ancient agricultural machines. Orchards and herb gardens have been laid out round the houses. Loosely arranged meadow orchards show the way in which fruit trees have typically been cultivated in the area. Activity Days As the “central museum for coun- try life and agricultural history in the Upper Palatinate”, the open-air museum organizes several activity days during the season between March and September. On these, old artisan technology and traditional ways of working in the house and on the farm are demonstrated. Special exhibitions and talks on folklorist subjects complete the program. Every Sunday during the museum’s season you can buy the famous museum bread, traditional Upper Palatinate style, which is baked in the old oven at the “Schallerhof”. Come and meet our animals on the farms and surrounding fields: sheep, goats, horses, cows, oxen, chickens, geese, peacocks and pigs. Lamb- ing time is usually around mid-April onwards. Catering The Tavern Inn of the Museum offers a charming beer garden and traditional food and drinks. The Upper Palatinate Open Air Museum