The Hooverville Hexagon: And Now for Some Time Travel

 

 

An Architect in the Museum Village

By Tavaron da Quirm

 

At Museumsdorf Niedersulz, north of Vienna, they demonstrate life at a village from around 1900.

 

They have a section demonstrating various clay building methods. I took pictures of a wattle and daub wall, which consists of woven sticks covered in clay. There are also two different types of ceilings, one with reed mats directly fixed on wooden beams and then covered with plaster. The other I have never seen before: there are wooden beams and between them sticks covered in clay, like sausages.

 

(The kids could make their own clay bricks with clay from about 5 meters next to the workshop.)

 

 

Picture Quiz

What is this?

The coat of arms of Inari, Finland.

That is one world-class Wolpertinger, folks.

 

 

 

Another Brain-Teaser

(Answer tomorrow)

Okay, history buffs: what does this do?

 

 

 

Video of the Day:

We Promised You Sheep.

You Get Sheep.

 The open-air museum had some sheep, too.

Linus just turned five.

'We had a long discussion with Linus about the sheep not being cows…' says Tavaron.

 

Laterz,

Dmitri Gheorgheni, Editor