This is a fantastic and beautiful museum! It is extremely interactive and kept me and my kids busy…read morefor a long time. The staff is helpful and speaks English. The descriptions are in English and German.

Ok that was weird. Interesting, sensory triggering, tinny, historical, kitschy, bizarre, intricate,…read moredelicate, amazing, and odd. I didn't want to go. I'm glad that I did, and would not repeat. Im conflicted. I mean, if you're here and need to kill an hour, it's a unique way to do that. Not something to go out of your way to experience, but I haven't seen anything like it. Machines that play real violins!

I'm all about gadgets and new technology but this collection of ancient mechanical contraptions…read moretriggered me worse than a shark swimming through chum-filled waters. Our visit here was without question one of the highlights of my to Europe. The museum is inside a 15th century building that is so interesting to look at. You can't just walk through the museum on your own. Because of how fragile some of these machines must be a tour guide goes with you and explains the story behind each device before they operate them for your enjoyment. The minimum group size is four, but admission is so cheap I think it would be worth it to pay for missing people if you have less than four. The machine in the first room completely fascinated me. It was called a Weber Maesto Orchestrion and I've never seen anything like it. The orchestrion plays music that is meant to sound like a band is playing it. The multiple instruments harmonize wonderfully together and played a catchy tune. I liked it so much I ended up buying a CD of orchestrion songs from the gift store. When you start thinking about how this intricate machine was built over ninety years ago when technology was so primitive it's just mind blowing. I did some research when I got home and learned that less than ten of these exist in the world and one was sold in a Sotheby's auction for close to a million dollars! This alone was worth the price of admission for me. Another highlight was a machine that played violin music. There were multiple violins wrapped around a column but the catch was that each violin only had one string. The mechanism that spun around the violins would then hit each string as needed to play a melody. They had replicas of wind-up mechanical bird boxes that had a little bird that would jump around and sing when triggered. Some of these are actually for sale and if they would have been $200 or less I would have thrown my credit card down so fast your head would spin. Starting at $600 is too rich for my blood. We saw several other machines on our tour and the hour flew by so quickly. If you're anywhere near this museum it is a "must do" as far as I'm concerned.

Came in around 3pm before the kitchen is closed. This is probably the 2nd best meal we've had m…read moreGerman in our entire one week trip. We tried Sausage and Schnitzel, both very good. Goes well with the dry and semi dry resiling.

Okay wine. Gorgeous grounds with picnic tables - they do not allow outside food but there is a…read moretart flambé / sausage stand on premises The person pouring wine did not seem at all interested in talking about their wine or any of the varietals they offered. But we had read this was the case before we stopped by & so it was not a surprise. Found one that we liked well enough to get a bottle but given their meaty food offerings - save for the soft pretzel which we did not particularly care for, as a meal, we sampled their wine then left on our merry way More of a meh-OK experience over A-OK