1. Old World Wisconsin Galleries

OWW photos from 2012

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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Kitchen table in the Shultz house in the German area.
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Kitchen table in the Shultz house in the German area.

SchulzStill LifeWindows of OWW Artsy

  • Interior of the animal barn at the Koepsell farm.
  • A young visitor intently studies a McGuffy reader in the Raspberry schoolhouse in the Norwegian area.
  • Washing dishes in the Ketola kitchen in the Finnish area.
  • Washing dishes in the Ketola kitchen in the Finnish area.
  • Kitchen table in the Shultz house in the German area.
  • Kitchen table in the Shultz house in the German area.
  • Spinning with a drop spindle at the Fossebrekke farm in the Norwegian area.
  • Koepsell farmhouse in the German area.  Note the Fachwerk (half timber) and symetrical construction with identical porches at the front and the rear of the house.
  • Koepsell farmhouse in the German area.  Note the Fachwerk (half timber) and symetrical construction with identical porches at the front and the rear of the house.
  • Koepsell farmhouse in the German area.  Note the Fachwerk (half timber) and symetrical construction with identical porches at the front and the rear of the house.
  • Pumpkin patch at the Fossebrekke farm in the Norwegian area.
  • Milking time at the Koepsell farm.
  • Wild turkey.
  • Wild turkey.
  • Garen and outhouse at the Koepsell farm in the German area.
  • Garen and outhouse at the Koepsell farm in the German area.
  • Interior of the black kitchen in the Schulz farmhouse.
  • Interior of the black kitchen in the Schulz farmhouse.
  • Schulz farm kitchen.
  • Rinsing dishes at the Schulz farm.
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