2. Old World Wisconsin Galleries

Animals of OWW

Old World Wisconsin, the Midwest's largest outdoor living history museum, showcases the life of immigrants to the State of Wisconsin in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is owned and operated by the Wisconsin Historical Society and occupies nearly 600 acres in the rolling hills of the Kettle Moraine area of Southeast Wisconsin near the small village of Eagle. It includes nine ethnic farms plus a village with a blacksmith, cobbler, general store, church, inn, shoe shop, and several residences. Interpreters dress in period clothing and go about their daily chores of farming, cooking, laundry, shoe making, blacksmithing, etc. The 40 some odd historic builldings on the site were moved to Old World from various locations in the early 1970s. The museum was opened to the public as the bicentennial project of the State of Wisconsin in 1976.
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Cooling off on a warm summer day.
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Cooling off on a warm summer day.

Farm AnimalsGermanOWWPigsSchottler

  • Cooling off on a warm summer day.
  • Cooling off on a warm summer day.
  • Lunch time.
  • Shooing the chickens into the barn.
  • An inquisitive pig.
  • Members of the Jefferson County Draft Horse Association plow, prepare, and seed the fields at Old World Wisconsin at two special events each year, Spring Rituals in May and Autumn on the Farms in October.
  • Members of the Jefferson County Draft Horse Association plow, prepare, and seed the fields at Old World Wisconsin at two special events each year, Spring Rituals in May and Autumn on the Farms in October.
  • Members of the Jefferson County Draft Horse Association plow, prepare, and seed the fields at Old World Wisconsin at two special events each year, Spring Rituals in May and Autumn on the Farms in October.
  • An Old World ox enjoys the attention of an interpreter.
  • Members of the Jefferson County Draft Horse Association plow, prepare, and seed the fields at Old World Wisconsin at two special events each year, Spring Rituals in May and Autumn on the Farms in October.
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  • Schoolchildren follow Teddy and Bear, Old World oxen, through the pasture at the 1875 Schottler farm.
  • The black baby lamb is only a few minutes old. We watched the birth.
  • A group of visitors gives Teddy, an Old World Ox, a dental checkup.
  • A sheep gets shorn at the 1865 Norwegian farm during the special annual spring event, Spring Rituals..
  • Members of the Jefferson County Draft Horse Association plow, prepare, and seed the fields at Old World Wisconsin at two special events each year, Spring Rituals in May, and Autumn on the Farms in October.
  • Members of the Jefferson County Draft Horse Association plow, prepare, and seed the fields at Old World Wisconsin at two special events each year, Spring Rituals in May, and Autumn on the Farms in October.
  • Members of the Jefferson County Draft Horse Association plow, prepare, and seed the fields at Old World Wisconsin at two special events each year, Spring Rituals in May, and Autumn on the Farms in October.
  • Members of the Jefferson County Draft Horse Association plow, prepare, and seed the fields at Old World Wisconsin at two special events each year, Spring Rituals in May, and Autumn on the Farms in October.
  • Members of the Jefferson County Draft Horse Association plow, prepare, and seed the fields at Old World Wisconsin at two special events each year, Spring Rituals in May, and Autumn on the Farms in October.
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