Built in 1936, the versatile Black Forest Museum in Triberg, shows the past and present cultural and economic life of the Black Forest people. It exhibits Black forest clocks over four centuries, Black Forest traditional costumes, wood carvings, straw weaving and old trade workshops such an original clockmaker’s.

Particularly worth seeing are the unique automated music boxes, an original village band, mining shafts with their rare minerals and a landscaped model train exhibition of the Black Forest railway.  An area is dedicated to winter sports, showing bobsleighs and toboggans and the world’s first electric Ski lift. with the first electric ski lift. There is also a barrel organ collection which is one of the largest in Europe.

On more than 1,600 sqm you can find:

- Workshops of old forgotten professions

- Self-playing orchestrions

- Large collection of barrel organs

- Black Forest clocks

- Bobsleigh and racing sledges

- Accessible mining gallery

- Historical costumes

- Carnival figures

- SABA radio collection

- Wood carvings by the well-know local Wood Carver ‘Schnitzer Sepp’

- History of Triberg and its reign

- and much more

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