Deutsches Schweinemuseum, Agricultural history museum in Teltow, Germany

The German Pig Museum is an agricultural museum in Teltow dedicated to showing the history of pig breeding and the farming practices that developed across generations. Its display includes information on different pig varieties and the practical knowledge involved in raising these animals.

The museum was created as a commemoration of a teaching and research institute focused on animal breeding, with its main exhibition opening in the second half of the 1990s. This founding reflects an important period in the history of modern farming and how science influenced agricultural practices.

The collection includes breeding records, photographs of different pig varieties, and ceramic objects that show how farming communities valued and maintained their animals. These items reveal the choices farmers made about which breeds to keep and how their preferences changed over generations.

The museum occupies the former Ruhlsdorf model workshop on the edge of Ruhlsdorf, a district of Teltow. It has six exhibition rooms on about 500 square metres, plus an outdoor area with reconstructed pigsties and huts from the 1950s. Volunteers staff the museum and sell tickets at weekends; there is no permanent staff.

The oldest European piggy bank in the collection is a clay replica; the original, from the 13th century, was found in Thuringia. The bronze sow Bettina, who lived on the Ruhlsdorf farm, gave birth to 175 live piglets in 14 litters and died in 1929 at the age of 14.