2. Old World Wisconsin Galleries

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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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Oil lamp and bible in the bedroom of the Sisel shoe shop in Crossroads village.
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Oil lamp and bible in the bedroom of the Sisel shoe shop in Crossroads village.

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  • Interior of Schulz farmhouse.
  • Oil lamp and bible in the bedroom of the Sisel shoe shop in Crossroads village.
  • Entrance to the Kvaale farmhouse.
  • An interpreter uses his Civil War era "garden machine" to water the garden at the Sanford house in Crossroads village.
  • Wool hung to dry on the front porch of the 1865 Kvaale farmhouse.
  • An interpreter tends a fire in the oven in the "black kitchen" of the 1860 Schulz farmhouse. The black kitchen was basically a large chimney in the center of the house. Meat was smoked by hanging it on racks in the chimney. Bread was baked by first building a fire in the oven. After the bricks lining the inside of the oven were hot, the coals were removed by dragging them into the pit below the pot seen here. Many loaves of bread were then placed in the hot oven to bake. Black kitchens fell out of use after a number of years because of the fire hazard they presented to women in long skirts.
  • Interesting geometric shapes in the dry sink area of the Schottler summer kitchen.
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