Peasant Life Museum In Bielefeld

Peasant life museum in Bielefeld was founded in 1917. When Russian labourers and peasants saw the life abroad they made a revolution.

The expositions of the museum tell about the village mode of life in the XIX century. Among the exhibits: windmill, bakery, barn, flax brake (in the Middle ages Bielefeld was known as one of the leading flax producers).

Ordinary houses with hangars.


Figures at the spinning wheel.

To the left is a cafe where one may drink a cup of coffee with a roll that has just been taken out of the stove burnt by real firewood.

Workers have made a place for smoking...

Timber framing: logs were covered with clay, then by bricks and other materials available. Brick houses were a luxury.

But on the other hand such houses were decorated in all possible ways.




Mice - friends of people.


What that stick is for?


One more weird construction.




The windmill may be freely visited.

Millstones and blades are in a working condition. At some excursions grain may be milled.

And if you look out of the window...





The museum is not far from the Zoo, you may visit it too.


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