1. Old World Wisconsin Galleries

OWW photos from Fall, 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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Students on a field trip to Old World Wisconsin make pennants
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Students on a field trip to Old World Wisconsin make pennants

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  • Students on a field trip to Old World Wisconsin make pennants
  • Students on a field trip to Old World Wisconsin make pennants
  • Students on a field trip to Old World Wisconsin make pennants
  • Children on a field trip at Old World Wisconsin play "base ball" following 19th century rules
  • Students on a field trip to Old World Wisconsin make pennants
  • Students on a field trip to Old World Wisconsin make pennants
  • Students on a field trip to Old World Wisconsin make pennants
  • Students on a field trip to Old World Wisconsin make pennants
  • Fossebrekke Cabin in the Norwegian area
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  • Autumn colors in Crossroads Village
  • Preparing an iron "tire" for mounting on a wagon wheel in the blacksmith shop
  • Preparing an iron "tire" for mounting on a wagon wheel in the blacksmith shop
  • Preparing an iron "tire" for mounting on a wagon wheel in the blacksmith shop
  • Draft horses and their owners from the Jefferson County Draft Horse Association help prepare the fields for fall planting
  • At the Koepsell farm in the German area
  • Draft horses and their owners from the Jefferson County Draft Horse Association help prepare the fields for fall planting
  • Draft horses and their owners from the Jefferson County Draft Horse Association help prepare the fields for fall planting
  • Fossebrekke Cabin in the Norwegian area
  • An interpreter at the Fosssebrekke Farm in the Norwegian area takes a break
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