Historical meteorological data commemorate Gütersloh's first weather station installed by the town's honorary citizen Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm Stohlmann.

Three generations of the Thiro family worked with the exhibited equipment till 1977, producing – among others – pots, pans and distillation apparatus for the local distilleries.

Therefore, a bronze sculpture of Reinhard Mohn – created in 1986 by the sculptor Hubert Hartmann (1915–2006) coming from Wiedenbrück – is exhibited in this area.

[4] The exhibition dealing with the history of medicine is of supraregional importance[5] and was granted a special prize of the European Museum of the Year Award in 1990.

He bequeathed not only the buildings of the museum to the association for local history, but also the equipment of his practice, as for example medical instruments, furniture, a skeleton as well as educational material which partly dated from the 1920s and 1930s.

Furthermore, the association managed to achieve substantial components of a store for cosmetics and healthcare of the year 1890 which was originally furnished as pharmacy.

The Stadtmuseum Gütersloh grants the loan of its exhibits including expert device as "historical service" to make additional income.

In case of local matters, the exhibitions concentrate on the town history including the development of industry, trade, traffic, culture, leisure time and formation.

Corresponding to the focus of its collection regarding the history of medicine, exhibitions – either of the Stadtmuseum Gütersloh itself or of third parties - regularly take place in the town museum about this topic.

Following a tradition, a toy exhibition is organized in the winter months, which attracts - according to gathered experiences – a tremendous number of visitors.

Therefore, museum rallies, guessing games, disguising actions and courses of textile manufacturing and wood working are offered.

They contain material (for example referring to the paper manufacturing or the teaching of historical writing- and printing techniques) and are borrowed to schools for project work.