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MuseumPasseier - Andreas Hofer at the Sandhof in St. Leonhard
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The MuseumPasseier is located at the Sandhof in St. Leonhard, the birthplace of the freedom fighter Andreas Hofer (1767–1810).
The central structure, the MuseumPasseier – Andreas Hofer is housed in the Sandhof, a listed inn building, and consists of three areas: Andreas Hofer, Folklore and an Open Air display.
At the former farmstead of the Tyrolean freedom-fighter Andreas Hofer (1767–1810) in the village of St. Leonhard in the Passeirer valley in the South Tyrol a museum, the MuseumPasseier, is being created.
For the commemorative year of 2009, the Passeier Museum is currently putting together the new permanent exhibition called “Helden & Hofer” (“Heroes & Hofer”). The exhibition replaces the previous Andreas Hofer area and covers a total of 500 m2, mostly in a specially constructed underground centre.
“Heroes & Hofer” is intended to serve as a permanent attraction for both locals and visitors long beyond the year in question. The museum tour is dynamic and takes modern viewing habits into account. It makes use of changing perspectives, films and sounds.
In the barn itself above there is a fine ethnographic collection of show-pieces documenting local costumes, furniture, art, popular arts & credences, healing practices, customs, agricultural life, transport, crafts & the life of various local personages. An audio-studio presents examples of the music, the legends, the popular tales and the literature of the valley.
The open-air area offers a stroll through various rebuilt original buildings of the 16th to the 19th century, through a typically furnished Passeirer farmstead of late, a visit to the chapel of the Sacred Heart (1899) and the small church of the Sacred Sepulchre (1691).
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