2. Old World Wisconsin Galleries

"Artsy" Images 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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Entrance to the Kvaale farmhouse.
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Entrance to the Kvaale farmhouse.

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  • An interpreter sits in the entrance to the Grube barn on the 1860 Schulz farm. This image reminds me of the famous painting "Whistler's Mother."
  • Entrance to Kvaale farmhouse.
  • Mary Hafford's bedroom as seen through her bedroom window.
  • Tripod mounted kettle outside Fossebrekke farmhouse.
  • The sun casts intereting geometric shadows on the front facade of the Schulz farmhouse.
  • Candleholder and yarn at the Schulz farmhouse.
  • Wool is hung to dry at the Kvaale farmhouse.
  • Entrance to the Kvaale farmhouse.
  • Rear entrance to the Grotelueschen blacksmith shop in Crossroads village.
  • Cooking utensils hanging on the wall of the Schottler summer kitchen produce interesting geometric patterns.
  • Oil lamp on a dresser in the 1875 Benson house parlor.
  • Koepsell outhouse viewed through bedroom window.
  • Schulz farmhouse. Note the texture and coloring of the wooden door that leads into the black kitchen.
  • Front porch of the Kvaale farmhouse. The door seen here opens into a storage area,.
  • Ox cart with interesting geometric shapes and colors.
  • Hay wagon on the Schulz farm at dusk.
  • Abstract of path leading to chapel and cemetery beyond from the intergrated African American community of Pleasant Ridge.
  • Interior of the Grotelueschen blacksmith shop in Crossroads village.
  • Front facade of the Schulz farmhouse. Note the repeating patterns of squares and rectangles.
  • Interior of Schulz farmhouse.
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