The Lippe Regional Museum is the largest and oldest regional museum of East Westphalia-Lippe and is located in the heart of Detmold, opposite the Weser Renaissance Castle of the Princes of Lippe. Established in 1835 as Natural History Museum, it evolved until today to a grand collection Lippe and exhibits Lippe cultural assets in the fields of natural history, prehistory and early history, regional history, folklore, art, furniture and interior design and ethnography.