Open Air Museum CloppenburgThe museum village Cloppenburg-Niedersächsisches Freilichtmuseum is one of the largest open-air museums in Central Europe. On a total area of 25 hectares, it shows extracts from the historic rural house and cultural landscape of northwest Germany. In accordance with the requirement of a central, scientifically oriented and appropriately managed open-air museum, our institution is an attractive and lively place of research and mediation for its visitors. Our museum takes a holistic approach, d. H. it presents the concrete living conditions of the people by way of example on the basis of their traditional testimonies (house, furniture, implements, personal belongings) from a micro-historical perspective in their respective contexts (holistic).
The main topics include the documentation and presentation of the most important house and farm types of the northwestern Lower Saxony in their landscape and social differentiation, including and representing historical work and craft techniques, typical regional cultural landscape elements, old domestic breeds and historical useful and ornamental plants.
The museum village Cloppenburg sees itself as a dynamically operating museum institution. His collection and mediation focus ranges from the early modern period to the present. At the same time, we are documenting the transitions from a rural production society to a country-based consumer and service society, with a view to the more recent collections, which include the field of public festival and populary culture. With the building-related presentations in the open-air museum, additional exhibitions and events as well as a lively publication activity, we show a multi-layered picture of the cultural and everyday life of the people in Lower Saxony.
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