2. Old World Wisconsin Galleries

OWW photos from May, 2011

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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Thinning of Red Pine trees in 2011

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  • Thinning of Red Pine trees in 2011
  • Thinning of Red Pine trees in 2011
  • Thinning of Red Pine trees in 2011
  • Thinning of Red Pine trees in 2011
  • Interpreters at 1845 Fossebrekke Cabin in Norwegian area.
  • Schoolchildren playing with hoops and sticks at Sanford farm.
  • Schoolchildren learning to play with hoops and sticks at the Sanford farm in Crossroads Village.
  • Schoolchildren playing with hoops and sticks at Sanford farm.
  • Schoolchildren playing with hoops and sticks at Sanford farm.
  • Schoolchildren playing "Graces," a19th century children's game.
  • Schoolchildren playing with hoops and sticks at Sanford farm.
  • An interpreter on the porch of the Four Mile Inn in Crossroads Village talks to schoolchildren about life in the 19th century.
  • An interpreter on the porch of the Four Mile Inn in Crossroads Village talks to schoolchildren about life in the 19th century.
  • Schoolchildren in a tug of war with Teddy and Bear, Old World oxen at the German Schulz farm. (The kids always lose but they sure enjoy it!)
  • Thinning of Red Pine trees in 2011
  • Devastation by the June 2010 tornado.
  • Devastation by the June 2010 tornado.
  • Schoolchildren at the Groteluschen blacksmith shop in Crossroads Village learn about the role blacksmiths played in the 19th century.
  • View through the kitchen window of the stabbur at the Norwegian Kvaale farm.
  • Spinning wheel at the 1865 Kvaale sheep farm in the Norwegian area.
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