Collection
Historical everyday culture: collecting and preserving
The LWL-Open-Air Museum Detmold has an extensive collection of historical everyday objects. This collection comprises more than 300,000 items stored in our own depot.
The collections of the museum include:
- the historical buildings
- building components and building findings such as windows and doors
- furniture
- clothing, home and work textiles
- household and working appliances
- vehicles of all kinds, such as farm wagons, sleds, fire trucks and milk wagons
- rural and urban shops, colonial and mixed goods, pharmacies and drugstores
- objects of the school system
- devotional pictures, memorial sheets, certificates and collecting pictures
- discounts from associations
- emergency objects of the last war and post-war period
- photo collections
- objects of the present