2. Old World Wisconsin Galleries

German 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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Interpreters at the Schottler farm summer kitchen make sausages during the Autumn on the Farms special event held each October.
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Interpreters at the Schottler farm summer kitchen make sausages during the Autumn on the Farms special event held each October.

Autumn on the FarmsFood PreparationGermanOWWOWW PeoplePig SlaughterSchottlerSpecial EventsSummer KitchenUtensils Equipment

  • A farmer leads Teddy and Bear, Old World oxen, through a pasture on the Schottler farm.
  • An interpreter prepares dinner in the Schulz farmhouse kitchen.
  • Chapel and cemetery at Pleasant Ridge near the German area.
  • An interpreter boils potatoes in the summer kitchen at the Schottler farm. Note the blackened wall to her right caused by escaping smoke from the brick oven.
  • Interpreters in the summer kitchen at the Schottler farm grind pork to be used in sausages.
  • Interpreters at the Schottler farm summer kitchen make sausages during the Autumn on the Farms special event held each October.
  • Schoolchildren do a "hands on" with Teddy and Bear, Old World Oxen.
  • Teddy and Bear, Old World Wisconsin oxen head home to the 1860 Schulz farm after a long day's workout.
  • Volunteer gardeners do the spring planting at the 1880 Koepsell farm.
  • Volunteer gardeners do the spring planting at the 1880 Koepsell farm.
  • Spring planting at the Koepsell farm garden.
  • Spring planting at the Koepsell farm garden.
  • Spring planting at the Koepsell farm garden.
  • Front entrance to the 1880 Koepsell farm.
  • 1875 Schottler farm showing (l to r) farmhouse, summer kitchen, equipment storage, and pig barn.
  • Interpreters on the back porch of the 1860 Schulz farmhouse enjoy a laugh while visitors seen through the window enjoy a walk in the sun.
  • The Schulz farm garden as seen through the front entrance to the farmhouse. Note the twig fence that surrounds the garden area. Fences were use to keep wild animals from damaging the plants and twigs were plentiful in the New World.
  • Young turkeys at the Kruza house vie for attention.
  • An interpreter in the Koepsell farmhouse kitchen prepares dinner on a cast iron wood cookstove.
  • The cook's helpers prepare vegetables on the back porch of the 1880 Koepsell farm.
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