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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Spring planting at the Ketola Garden.
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Spring planting at the Ketola Garden.

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  • A warm summer day at the Ketola farm.
  • A farmer admires his mower from the doorway of the Ketola farm.
  • Visitors admire the garden harvest at the 1897 Rankinen (Finnish) farm during the Autumn on the Farms special event.
  • Two interpreters take a break from their laundry chores at the Ketola farm.
  • A beautiful spring day at the Ketola farm.
  • An interpreter cooks fish over a fire in the sauna at the Finnish Ketola farm.
  • Late in the day the sun casts interesting geometric shadows on the dairy barn at the Ketola farm.
  • A wood cookstove and coffee pot in the kitchen of the 1915 Ketola farmhouse.
  • Bedroom in the 1915 Ketola (Finnish) farmhouse.
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  • Handle to the dairy barn door at the 1915 Ketola farm.
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  • An interpreter introduces two young visitors to a chicken at the Ketola farm.
  • Two interpreters stop to chat after hanging their laundry out to dry on a beautiful spring day at the Ketola farm. Note the prolific dandelions at Ketola.
  • Springtime at the Ketola farm.
  • Spring planting at the Ketola Garden.
  • Onions hung to dry in the covered entryway to the Ketola farmhouse.
  • Entrance shed at the 1915 Ketola (Finnish) farmhouse.
  • An interpreter makes a pie in the kitchen of the 1915 Ketola (Finnish) farmhouse.
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