The museum is centred on the Vogtsbauernhof farmhouse dating from 1612, which was built on this site. Other buildings from the Black Forest have been dismantled, transported to the museum and reassembled. There are six fully furnished farmhouses, other buildings include a day labourer's cottage, a mill, a sawmill, barns, stalls, a chapel, a storehouse and a granny house. Around the buildings are farm animals and a herb garden with over 130 medicinal herbs. Demonstrations of exhibitions illustrate the crafts, tools, customs, traditions, work and lifestyle of former times.