Museum, or 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 long served as the coaching Inn, where they found refuge miners. Later the building was used as a nursing home and was called the "Bruderhaus". In 1970, the nursing home moved to a new modern building and the power of Altenmarkt decided to throw in a former Bruderhaus a Museum telling about the history of the region. The school immediately became quite popular and in 1998 the decision was made to its expansion.

The Museum is a two-storey building, traditional for these places. The first floor is stone-built and whitewashed, and the second is a wooden attic with a miniature tower-the bell tower.

Visitors to the Museum are exhibits about what happened in Altenmarkt and the surrounding area in earlier times. The most significant exhibit is the Nativity scene, created Altenmarkt masters over 250 years ago. Heroes of the biblical story surrounded by village houses and recognizable buildings of Jerusalem. The sculpture consists of 120 figures, 80 of which are movable.

Each room in the Museum is decorated in a special style. Here you can find a peasant room, black kitchen, the sacred room, school room, costume room, and a room dedicated to Perchta – magical character, the prototype of the Slavic Baba Yaga. In the Bavarian-Austrian folklore, the same Perchta (Bertha) visits houses during Christmas time and checks how diligent and hardworking had children in the past year.

Attached to the barn Museum allows you to see old wagons, tools and other appliances used in everyday life of the peasants.