Museo degli usi e costumi del Tirolo del Sud (Dietenheim)

The South Tyrolean Folklore Museum in Dietenheim brings rural buildings and objects from across the province together around the baroque Mair am Hof residence. Its collection presents everyday life across different social levels, from landed gentry to peasant farmers and day labourers.

Why it matters

The museum interprets rural history through original farm buildings as well as objects. Their different forms and domestic settings show how work and household life varied across South Tyrol’s valleys and social groups.

What to notice

• Mair am Hof, built between 1690 and 1700 by the von Sternbach family, with stately rooms and collections of folk piety and folk art.
• The museum’s displays of clay pipes, embroidered leather belts, carved spoons, zithers, medicinal herbs and Krampus masks.
• Farmhouses and outbuildings originating from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries, alongside craft workshops, cultivated gardens and domestic animals.

Context and history

The museum is centred on Mair am Hof, whose baroque residence now houses its ethnographic collections. Around the residence, the provincial museum assembled farm buildings from across South Tyrol to represent the region’s rural past. The institution’s 2026 exhibition marked fifty years of its history.