More than 40 historical actors and families live and work in the museum buildings and depict everyday life in a village in Mecklenburg in 1900.
On July 18 and 19, around 40-50 historical actors with children from all over Germany will inhabit and manage several buildings of the open-air museum, including the cottage opposite.
The "Zeitreise Mueß" community of actors are friends of the Schwerin-Mueß Open-Air Museum from the region and from far and wide. Every year, they move into the farmhouses of the Mueß village museum for two days in summer. Everything is original from that time: buildings, everyday objects, tools, clothing, recipes... Our ancestors lived in a similar way in the village: in simple conditions, combined with strenuous work and in a mutual, useful, family and social community.
They dress as they did in 1900, they are farmers, maidservants, farmhands, shepherds, blacksmiths, laundresses... They depict little episodes as they might have happened.
Life takes place in the houses and farms, in the fields and meadows, mowing with the scythe, tending the animals, washing clothes, cooking on the hearth, selling and chatting in the grocery store...
The actors have been dealing with everyday life in the 1900s for many years, so they know their way around. Visitors can gain new and lively insights into everyday life in a village in Mecklenburg around 100 years ago. History that cannot be expressed in numbers and letters. History that can be experienced up close and with all the senses.
Many of the buildings and areas of the site are used: Büdnerei, shepherd's cottage, village school, farmhouse, smithy, courtyard, meadows, even rooms that will only be open on these two days, e.g. the cottage opposite the museum grounds and the colonial goods store.
Visitors can watch, ask for explanations, talk to the actors...
Regular museum admission applies for both days.
TIPS for the evenings: On Saturday evening, July 18, visitors can experience two further highlights at the open-air museum. From 6 p.m., the Fritz Reuter Stage will perform the cheerful and musical play "Krawall in'n Häuhnerstall" in Low German. And from 7:30 pm, the band FOLK-TANZ-FUSION will be playing a traditional dance evening with many European join-in dances in the event tent of the Mueßer Museumsdorf. On July 19, the Fritz-Reuter-Bühne will give the last performance of its cheerful summer theater from 6 pm.
