This museum cemetery displays an exceptional collection of authentic old grave monuments, primarily from the German-speaking Alpine region. Strikingly, the inscriptions are often irreverent, featuring rhymes about life, death, and secrets. This custom of humorous and candid grave inscriptions originated in England around the 17th century and spread to Europe, America, and Australia. The open-air museum was founded in 1965 by stonemason Hans Guggenberger, continuing his father's appreciation for grave monuments as artistic examples. His collection encompasses over 700 monuments from five decades, with about sixty of the most amusing and beautiful pieces exhibited. These exhibits offer a humorous yet insightful look into past generations' perspectives on mortality. Examples of inscriptions reveal candid sentiments about spouses, ailments, and even humorous deaths. The museum also features the "World Peace Cross," a seven-meter monument of marble and iron designed by Guggenberger to advocate for global peace. Around this cross, five colored columns represent continents, inviting visitors to place stones from their homelands. Since 2019, the museum has also housed the world's largest and most modern Danse Macabre, a 20-meter-long contemporary artistic representation of death's universality.