The Kapplhof was the original exhibit with which the museum was opened in 1980. The farmhouse and farm buildings have been rebuilt, repaired and extended several times, without, however, changing the appearance of this woodland farm, typical of those that stood in the little villages and hamlets in the inner Bavarian Forest in the 17th and 18th centuries. The dwelling-house and cowshed are united under the same flat, wooden-shingle saddle roof, the finely crafted granary has the same kind of roof and the barn, too, is similarly constructed.

The Tanzer-Hof existed for a scant hundred years. In 1879, Michael Tanzer was given 23 acres of meadows, fields and land under timber out of his brother's big farm, together with an undeveloped site for a farmhouse in the village of Einberg. This, however, was not enough: neither the brightly painted facade, nor the elaborately decorated bed chambers can disguise the fact that the farm lacked sufficient land.

The inhabitants of the Sachl from Rumpenstadl lived in constant adversity. Their fields were too poor, the meadows too small and as for timber - they possessed none! This is why the old wooden house is so skimpily built. The cowshed and the cellar are small, the parlour, kitchen and sleeping quarters are cramped, and the furniture is old and worn.

The Petzi-Hof from Pötzerreut is the first farm of such a size to have been moved with all its outbuildings to an open-air museum. It consists of a large farmhouse with built-in hay-loft, a house to lodge the farm-hands, a cottage for the farmer's parents with an adjoining baking oven, a cowshed and a shed for the oxen and a barn. The oldest building is the farmhouse, dating from 1704, the most recent the barn, which was built in 1927. Its extensive, fertile fields and woodlands made the Petzi-Hof a prosperous farm, yet the living and sleeping quarters are modestly furnished. The focal point of each room is its masonry stove.