2. Old World Wisconsin Galleries

The Windows 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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Reflections and distortions as seen in a window in the Schottler summer kitchen.
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Reflections and distortions as seen in a window in the Schottler summer kitchen.

ArtsyGermanOWWSchottlerSummer KitchenWindows of OWW

  • Looking into the kitchen window at the Kvaale farmhouse.
  • Looking into the kitchen window at the Pedersen (Danish) farmhouse.
  • Looking into the kitchen window in the Kvaale (Norwegian) farmhouse.
  • The Sanford farmhouse in Crossroads Village as seen through a window in the Thomas general store.
  • The Kvaale kitchen table as seen through a kitchen window.
  • Kitchen table in the 1897 Rankinen (Finnish) farmhouse as seen through a kitchen window.
  • The Schottler summer kitchen reflected in a window in the Schottler farmhouse.
  • Interior of the Kvaale farmhouse as seen through a window.
  • Civil War reenactors attending the wedding of a fellow reenactor peer out the window of St. Peter's church in Crossroads Village on a hot summer day.
  • Two interpreters having a heated discussion are seen through a window in the Mary Hafford house in Crossroads Village.
  • Blacksmith forge in the Peterson wagon shop in Crossroads Village as seen through a window..
  • Reflections and distortions as seen in a window in the Schottler summer kitchen.
  • An interpreter shows a school group a lavender plant of the type that was grown on the Schulz farm.
  • A sausage press is seen in a window in the Schottler farm summer kitchen.
  • Windows provided the Kvaale family with light for doing household chores. Here a window provides light for showing a school group how things were done in the "old days."
  • A window in the Koepsell farmhouse contains a reflection of the stable behind the house.
  • Mary Hafford's cherished tea set bathed in light from a window.
  • The Thomas general store in Crossroads Village as seen through a window in St. Peter's church.
  • Visitors peer in the window of the Peterson Wagon shop in Crossroads village to catch a glimpse of a skit about the devastating 1871 fire in Peshtigo, WI.
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