📜 Discover 500 years of Westphalian cultural heritage in a sprawling open-air museum.
🌳 Explore historical buildings, traditional crafts, and beautiful nature with old plant species and endangered livestock.
👨👩👧👦 Spend a wonderful day with family or friends in a unique historical setting.
🛠️ Experience traditional crafts like blacksmithing, baking, and pottery in workshops.
🌿 Discover historically modeled gardens with old plant species and varieties.
🐎 Encounter old and endangered breeds of livestock like horses, cattle, goats, and sheep.
🏡 Explore historic houses dismantled and rebuilt to show past Westphalian life.
📚 Engage with history through workshops, guided tours, and exploratory sheets.
🎉 Enjoy numerous events and activities throughout the year, including FREILICHTgenuss and Museums Advent.
🗓️ Season: April 1 - October 31.
🚫 Closed: November 1 - March 31.
❌ Mondays: Closed (except public holidays).
✅ Tuesday - Sunday & Public Holidays: 9 am - 6 pm.
🚪 Last Admission: 5 pm.
👶 Children under 18: Free entry.
🧑 Adults: 10 EUR.
👥 Groups (16+ adults): 8 EUR per person.
📉 Reduced fee: 5 EUR (students, trainees, volunteers, disabled persons, etc. with proof).
🆓 Free Entry Days (2025): April 5, May 18, July 18, October 17.
📍 Address: LWL-Freilichtmuseum Detmold, Krummes Haus, 32760 Detmold.
🚍 By Bus from Detmold central station: Bus 701 (to Berlebeck), Bus 703 (to Hiddesen), Bus 782 (to Bad Meinberg).
🚌 Seasonal Bus: Bus 792 (Easter to October).
🚲 By Bike: Follow the “Allee-Radweg” along "Paderborner Straße" from Detmold city centre.
🚶♀️ Large open-air museum with many historic buildings, some with stepped access.
🚧 Variety of ground surfaces including steep slopes, cobblestone, or rough/uneven terrain.
♿ Wheelchairs available free of charge.
Detailed accessibility information is available.
🐴 Carriage ride: Adults: 3 EUR, Children: 2 EUR (cash only in carriage).
🛒 Handcarts rental: 2 EUR.
🍎 FREILICHTgenuss: First weekend of September (Sept 6-7, 2025, 9 am - 6 pm). Focuses on sustainable, organic, and regional products, crafts, animal demonstrations, and food sampling.
🎄 Museums Advent: Showcases how Christmas was celebrated 100 years ago.