2. Old World Wisconsin Galleries

Special Events at 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.

Each year Old World Wisconsin has a large number of special events such as the ones featured in this gallery. For a calendar of upcoming special events visit: http://oldworldwisconsin.wisconsinhistory.org/Events/Calendar/All.aspx
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An interpreter makes head cheese in the kettle outside the cabin at the 1845 Fossebrekke farm.
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An interpreter makes head cheese in the kettle outside the cabin at the 1845 Fossebrekke farm.

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  • Vintage base ball (yes it's two words) played at Old World Wisconsin by the Eagle Diamonds, Old World's own vintage base ball team.
  • Vintage base ball (yes it's two words) played at Old World Wisconsin by the Eagle Diamonds, Old World's own vintage base ball team.
  • Vintage base ball (yes it's two words) played at Old World Wisconsin by the Eagle Diamonds, Old World's own vintage base ball team.
  • The "barrister" (now known as umpire) explains the rules of vintage base ball to fans before the game begins.
  • Scene at the 1875 German Schottler farm during the Autumn on the Farms special event in October.
  • Preparing a field on the 1875 Schottler farm during Autumn on the Farms special event held each October.
  • A pig is butchered at the 1875 German Schottler farm during the Autumn on the Farms special event held each October.
  • Plowing a field on the 1875 Schottler farm during the Autumn on the Farms special event held each October.
  • Members of the Jefferson County Draft Horse Association plow, prepare, and seed the fields at Old World Wisconsin at two special events each year, Spring Rituals in May and Autumn on the Farms in October.
  • Members of the Jefferson County Draft Horse Association plow, prepare, and seed the fields at Old World Wisconsin at two special events each year, Spring Rituals in May and Autumn on the Farms in October.
  • An interpreter makes head cheese in the kettle outside the cabin at the 1845 Fossebrekke farm.
  • During the Autumn on the Farms special event in October, a young visitor tries to decide which pumpkin he wants from the pumpkin patch at the Norwegian Fosssebrekke farm.
  • Members of the Jefferson County Draft Horse Association plow, prepare, and seed the fields at Old World Wisconsin at two special events each year, Spring Rituals in May and Autumn on the Farms in October.
  • An interpreter at the 1845 makes head cheese at the Autumn on the Farms special event held each October but a young visitor finds a scarecrow more interesting than the head cheese.
  • Young visitors line up to take a turn at making sauerkraut at the 1860 German Schulz farm during Autumn on the Farms, a special event held each October.
  • Hauling logs to the portable saw mill set up in the German area each year during the Autumn on the Farms special event.
  • Interpreters at the Schottler farm summer kitchen make sausages during the Autumn on the Farms special event held each October.
  • A team of draft horses hauls a load of logs on a rainy day in the German area. The logs will be cut up and made into lumber at the portable steam powered sawmill during Autumn on the Farms, a special event at Old World held ech year in October.
  • Draft horses in the German area prepare a field during the annual Autumn on the Farms special event held each October.
  • Draft horses in the German area prepare a field during the annual Autumn on the Farms special event held each October.
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