Who said that museums are lifeless? Salzburg Puppet Museum in Austria, full of children's fun

Many times we will have a set impression of a word, for example: mention the castle, most people will think of the royal family, princesses, princes, etc., full of fairy tale romantic color; and when it comes to museums, the first impression is history-related, cold display of objects, so few people are interested.

However, the meaning of travel is to let us personally experience and discover more real aspects. The destination we share today is a combination of castle and museum, a puppet museum in a castle to be exact, can you imagine?

One of the most popular attractions when traveling to Austria is Salzburg, the home of the great composer Mozart. And the most iconic building in Salzburg is the Salzburg Fortress, known as Hohensalzburg.

This ancient castle, the largest in Central Europe, has been built since 1077 and still stands tall and upright on a hill more than a hundred meters high after more than nine hundred years of weathering. Most tourists come to Salzburg to visit the castle, which offers a full view of the old city. But few people know that there is also a puppet museum in the castle.

The Sound of Music was filmed in Salzburg, so a visit here naturally brings to mind the puppet show performed by the family in The Sound of Music. Unlike ordinary puppet exhibitions, puppets of different identities are placed in various exclusive scenes here. In tourism, we often say that one step is one scene, and here is the feeling of one story at a time.

And here is a recreation of the history of the Salzburg Fortress. The lifelike puppets come with costumes and handheld objects that match their respective identities. No words are needed to explain, a glance at the content to be described, this is the world that children can understand, simple and clear, but also vivid images. There is no need to worry about the barrier of being in a foreign country and not knowing the language.

For girls, the young lady in fancy dress, simply comparable to the current Barbie doll, and even slightly better. Whether it is the folds of the clothes, elaborate hair, or the cuffs of the big horn, living and breathing, plus the lines can still move freely, instantly give life.

The Salzburg Puppet Museum feels like a three-dimensional book of little people, where you can see its past, see the fantasies of children, see life, but also war; see religion, but also see fantasy. What is even harder to imagine is that the building itself is full of stories of war. And with the windows open, beyond the high walls of the castle is the look of the years!