Museum Osthusschule

The Osthusschule Museum was founded in 1995 by Hans Schumacher and Volker Menzel as a school museum. Today, one of the two classrooms houses a classroom from around 1900. Old benches, desks, cupboards, blackboards, pictures of the imperial couple and historical teaching equipment bring back memories of the old school days.

The second former classroom houses a collection of textbooks with a focus on "reading books" as well as collections of scrolls, picture boards, sugar cones, projection devices, teaching and learning aids and animal specimens.

In addition to school-specific exhibits and a half-timbered school built in 1832, there is also a collection of tools from a time when rural craftsmen still had to make do without machines. Furthermore, a collection of paintings and sculptures by local artists is presented in the buildings and the adjacent 7,000 square meter outdoor area. There is also a forest nature trail leading back to the present day, illustrating the complicated interplay of plants and animals in the forest and showing how susceptible our ecosystem is to disruption.

The local history archive of the Bielefeld-Senne district is located in part of the former teacher's residence.