The museum was recognized as an "Exemplary Local History Museum" in the Tübingen administrative district in 2015. Its collection focuses on food storage, living culture, and working life around 1900. Local history and local personalities, with special sections on separatism and emigration, as well as life on and around the Danube. Anyone who wants to know what Rottenacker has to do with Friedrich Engels' Communist Manifesto, or why Rottenacker, as a Württemberg village, never became part of the Austrian Front, unlike the surrounding area, is in the right place at Wirtle's House. Changing exhibitions round out the program.