Opening Times of the Local history Museum
Groups for registration by telephone at:
Heimatmuseum/Local history Museum
(during opening times):

08678/8104 or 08678/1068 or 08678/8869
and Tourist-Info: 08678/748820
Subject to changes.

Admission price per visitor is 2,00 €.
Admission price for groups is 1,50 € (per pers.)

The exhibition, extending over 11 rooms with a total area of 350 square meters, is divided into different themes. The 1st room, the largest in the museum, shows a synopsis of the history of our immediate surroundings.

A wall relief provides an insight into the make-up of our planet. The primordial oceans, which once covered the country, were the beginning of all life. Masses of small snails of various forms once lived in the brackish water, a mixture of salt and fresh water. These fossils found in the Tuerkenbach below Stammham are, amongst others, to be seen in a display case. A section of a mammoth tusk, and an arm bone, allows us to guess a little at the size of these animals that still lived here 10,000 years ago.

Tools from the New Stone Age and weapons from the Bronze Age indicate continuous habitation of our region. Traces of the oldest culture known to us by name, the Celts, have been proven through findings such as coins, a belt hook, and a well preserved ringwall in Leonberg, built around 100 BC. Their artistry with coinage and their skills in casting metals can be seen in three display cases containing finds that are over 2,000 years old. The Middle Ages, with the founding of Marktl by the Counts of Leonberg and a history of shipping and navigation on the Inn, are presented in detail using models and certificates from the times.



A home-kitchen equipped with many once-useful objects is connected with the 1st room. Clothing and headgear, as well as a typically middle-class bedroom, a masterpiece of rural carpentry skill from the 19th Century, provide an insight into a former way of life. Uniforms, weapons and decorations, especially those of the Royal Bavarian Army, can be seen in room 5.

The development of timepieces, from the unique wall clock of about 1650 to a hand-forged tower clock of around 1750, can be traced in room 6. Room 7 is dedicated to the popular piety and sacred folk art of our ancestors. The special features of this room are the gifts from Pope Benedict XVI., namely, a gold chalice with a golden tablet and the Zucchetto (apical cap). These three items were used by the Holy Father himself in his private chapel. The pope presented the Heimatbund with these three items as a thankyou for returning the baptismal font from the museum back into St. Oswald's Church. The presence of numerous craft-workshops in Marktl is reflected in rooms 8, 9 and 10. Flax processing, woodworking, and a fully equipped blacksmith are testament to the earlier occupations. The last room is set aside for agriculture, with all the equipments used in the time before mechanization.