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