Ortsmuseum Hinwil

The Hinwil nearby museum is a memorial group in Hinwil inside the Zurich Oberland. It is housed in a 18th-century Flarz and Riegelhaus with 3 outbuildings. The in large part original rooms of the residential constructing with kitchen, dwelling room and bedroom and a comprehensive series of normal matters in addition to objects from the sector of domestic paintings and alternate report the everyday lifestyles of Hinwil and the interplay of domestic, agricultural and crafts in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The primary constructing of the nearby museum Hinwil is a multipart terraced residence, the oldest a part of which changed into built around 1718, with a protracted row of home windows at the the front and the everyday fall shops for domestic work. This ancillary exchange is offered in the cellar below the parlor. In addition to the residing rooms that display the lives of in advance generations, the exhibition areas are committed to person topics, including folklore, the records Hinwils or weapons and uniforms. A unique feature is the house organ constructed in 1856 by a farmer. In the barn are gadgets on agriculture and change in 1900 showed. In the "Turpenschopf" the peat extraction within the Hinwiler Ried is supplied. The Spritzenhaus homes fire extinguishers from 1800 to the existing.