The Old City - Denmark's Market Town Museum

Distance: 9.69 Km

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Take a trip through time with the whole family in Den Gamle By. See, feel and experience the history of the Danish market towns through four different time periods: 2014, 1974, 1927 and 1864. The Old Town has the maximum three Michelin stars in the Travel guide, and there is free entry for anyone under 18.

2014 – our time at the museum

Our time has come at the museum. Dronning Margrethes Gade, which is a snapshot from the year 2014, is a sive street with shop fronts. Here you will find, among other things, a solar centre, 7-Eleven, a bank, a pizzeria, and the legendary pub Bent J, where the smell of smoke and beer still lingers.

The 2014 street also contains two apartments. Come inside the single woman Rikke and visit the rainbow family. In the homes, you can meet the residents through interviews, where they talk about their lives with children, work and everyday life.
2000-2014: Our time

Welfare Denmark of the 70s

Go back in time to the 1970s in a district with streets, apartments, shops, backyards and workshops from that time. In the 70s quarter, you can visit, among other things, the radio and TV shop Pouls Radio, the mini market, the butcher, the paint and wallpaper dealer, the nursery school and the hairdresser. In the apartments, you can look in to, among other things, the nuclear family, a collective, a hippie couple and a single mother.

In the backyard is a public van and the plumber's Citroën - and also look into the moped workshop and scout room or backyard toilets, which are decorated with the toilet poetry of the time.
1950-1974: Welfare and freedom

Popular cars and new times in the 1920s

Move forward to 1927, where the city has become modern with cars, sidewalks, street lamps, telephone wires and billboards. The neighborhood in Den Gamle By has a hardware store, a bookstore, Schous soap house, post office, telephone exchange and several homes from before the crisis of the 1930s brought Denmark to a standstill. You can also experience the authentic car dealership 'Automobilforretning Carl Christensen' with its own workshop.

Here you will find beautiful, old cars, a showroom, a shop with spare parts and workshops for engine renovation and bicycle repair. You get very close to the childhood of motoring and learn about the different, fascinating vehicles of the time.
1900-1927: Modern times

There was a time before 1900

Here you will meet the Old City in HC Andersen's time and earlier back with half-timbered buildings and buildings from all over Denmark. The oldest part of Den Gamle By is like a small Danish market town with houses, gardens, residences, shops and workshops. The buildings originate from cities throughout Denmark and have been rebuilt in Den Gamle By.
1600-1900: The old market town

A living museum

From April and the rest of the year you can meet people who dress, work and behave like the old days. They cook, chop firewood, do needlework or dispatch customers in the store. Stop and have a chat with the baker's maid, the farmhand and the lire box man, but watch out - you might be put to fetch water at the well or carry rubbish on the moor.

Take a trip with the privateer cars or do a good deal in the historic shops. At Restaurant Gæstgivergården you can enjoy a wide selection of hot and cold lunch dishes as well as smørrebrød, all of which are based on historical cookbooks.
Gæstgivergården - find the menu here

Special exhibitions and smaller museums

During the year there are theme days, concerts, activities for children and several special exhibitions. In Den Gamle By you will also find several smaller museums.
See the biggest highlights here.