The collection of the museum consists of 9000 tin figures in 21 dioramas which, among other scenes, depict the Battle of Sempach in 1386 (which makes up for 1150 of the figures), a battle from the Swabian-Swiss War of 1499, the German Peasant's War of 1525 that took place in the Black Forest region of Germany, the siege of the Küssaburg/Oberlauchringen, the events of the Badische Revolution and a siege from War of the Spanish Succession.