2. Old World Wisconsin Galleries

Finnish Area 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 toolshed at the Ketola farm.
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Entrance to the toolshed at the Ketola farm.

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  • Gardeners plant the garden at the 1915 Ketola farm.
  • Gardeners take a break and chat outside the Finnish sauna at the 1915 Ketola farm.
  • An interpreter peers wistfully out the sauna window at the Ketola (Finnish) farm. She may be wondering whether she should have emigrated to the New World where life is so hard.
  • Farmyard and barn at the Ketola (Finnish) farm on a beautiful late summer day.
  • An interpreter washes clothes the hard way at the 1915 Ketola (Finnish) dairy farm. Note the milk bottles on the bench.
  • A cow pauses to chew her cud outside the barn at the 1915 Ketola dairy farm.
  • Dairy barn at the 1915 Ketola (Finnish) farm.
  • An interpreter washes milk cans and the cream separater at the 1915 Ketola (Finnish) dairy farm on a beautiful autumn day.
  • An interpreter pauses to smell the lilacs at the 1915 Ketola (Finnish) farm.
  • A warm summer day at the 1915 Ketola (Finnish) farm. Note the milk bottles on the bench. Heikki Ketola was a dairy farmer.
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  • A chipmunk finds refuge in the Ketola dairy barn.
  • Tool shed at the 1915 Ketola (Finnish) farm.
  • Lilacs flourish at the Ketola farm.
  • Lilacs at the entrance to the Ketola farmhouse.
  • Toolshed at the Ketola (Finnish) farm.
  • Laundry equipment at the 1915 Ketola (Finnish) farm.
  • Entrance to the toolshed at the Ketola farm.
  • An interpreter cleans kerosene lamps as part of her spring cleaning chores at the 1915 Ketola (Finnish) farm.
  • Bedroom in the 1915 Ketola (Finnish) farmhouse.
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