National History Museum, or the Museum of the homeland, in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee is located in one of the oldest buildings in Austria. The current «Hoamathaus» was built in 1408 and has long served as an inn, where the miners found refuge. Later the building was used as a nursing home and was called «Bruderhaus». In 1970, the nursing home moved to a new modern building and Altenmarkt government decided to make the former Bruderhause museum about the history of the region. Restaurant immediately became quite popular, and in 1998 it was decided its expansion.

The museum represents a two-storey building, traditional for these places. The ground floor is paved with stone and whitewashed with lime, and the second is wooden, the loft is decorated with miniature turret-bell tower.

Visitors to the museum are exhibits that tell about what happened in Altenmarkt and its surroundings in the old days. The most important exhibit is the nativity scene created altenmarktskimi craftsmen more than 250 years ago. The heroes of the biblical story surrounded by farmhouses and recognizable buildings in Jerusalem. The composition consists of 120 figurines, 80 of which are movable.

Each room in the museum is decorated in a special style. Here you can find peasant room, black kitchen, a sacred space, classroom, costume room, and a room dedicated to Perhte - magical character - the prototype of the Slavic Baba Yaga. The Bavarian-Austrian folklore is Perhta (Bert) goes from house to house during the Christmas time and check how diligent and hard-working children were in the past year.

Attached to the museum barn allows you to see the old carts, tools and other devices used in daily life of the peasants.