Museums

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South Zealand & Møn have museums for every taste. Here you will find traditional museums, ones which show millions of years of history and wonder, as well as those that display art, design and new perspectives. 

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Thorvaldsen Collection on Nysø
Photo: Thorvaldsen Samlingen på Nysø
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Thorvaldsen Collection on Nysø

The Thorvaldsen collection on Nysø near Præstø Fjord offers a unique art experience of the works that the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen performed during a stay at Nysø Estate in the last years of his li...
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Danish Bicycle & Moped Museum
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Danish Bicycle & Moped Museum

Danish Bicycle and Moped Museum is a collaboration between Dansk Bicycle Museum Friends and Sjællands Veteranknallert club. It is a museum that has the largest collection of two-wheeled vehicles in Sc...

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Næstved Automobilmuseum
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Næstved Automobile Museum

Experience history on your own at the Næstved Automobile, Nostalgia & Collector Museum. Here, you’ll find 3,400 m² filled with vintage cars, mopeds, motorcycles, and much more.

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Faxe Ladeplads Mini Town & Park
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Faxe Ladeplads Mini Town & Park

In Faxe Ladeplads Miniby and Park you can enjoy the present while visiting the past.

Next to the mini golf course, "The old Faxe Ladeplads" lies at a scale of 1:10 in 1900

The houses have been accur...

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Geomuseum Faxe

Denmark’s largest and most beautiful hole in the ground is more than just an impressive landscape. It’s a time machine. Welcome to KALK – a truly unique museum in the heart of the Faxe Limestone Quarry, where you dig your way back to a world that existed over 60 million years ago.

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Grundtvigs Memorial rooms
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Grundtvigs Memorial rooms

At Udby Church in the old vicarage the poet and folk educationalist N.F.S. Grundtvig was born (1783-1872). He spent his childhood here, and he returned in 1811-13 as perpetual curate for his ageing fa...

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FORT - A Cold War Experience

The fort Stevnsfortet was located on the very frontline – Denmark and NATO’s secret element of defence during the Cold War. A story you may remember, but don’t really know! Visit the Cold War Museum in South Zealand. 

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Herlufsholm Natural History Museum
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Herlufsholm Natural History Museum

Herlufsholm School has their own Natural History Museum which contains several great history and not least unique collections.

The collection contains both animals, historical scientific instruments,...

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Møn's Museum, Empiregaarden
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Møn's Museum, Empiregaarden

Empiregården in Stege is an old grocery store that has housed the Møns Museum since 1958.
However, from about 1781 up to 1922 it has been traders and merchants who have owned the farm. Over time, the f...

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Næstved Museum Helligåndshuset
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Næstved Museum Helligåndshuset

The medieval building, Helligåndshuset - "House of the Holy Spirit" - served in former times as a combined hospital, old people's home and poorhouse.

After a thorough restoration in 1926-27 it became h...

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Egnshuset Ranestedet
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Egnshuset Ranestedet

Varpelev most likely got its name after King Varpe who lived here during the Iron Age. According to place-name researchers should suffix lev come from around the birth of Christ and mean: heritage. Va...

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Thorsvang - Collector's museum

At Torsvang Collector Museum you can experience a world of yesterdy. At the museum you can find all sorts of things from the good old day, when grandma was young.
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Stevns Folklore Museum
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Stevns Folklore Museum

Stevns Folklore Museum collects folk tales, stories, myths and legends from Stevns. Here you can learn about the elf people, trolls, the Cliff King Klintekongen and local folklore, superstitions and c...

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The Armoured Vehicles and Tank Society

Welcome to The Armoured Vehicles and Tank Society, in Danish abbriviated GHRVPK, where you, among other things, can have your curiosity fullfilled regarding how a tank and other armoured vehicles look...

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Køng Museum
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Køng Museum

Kong (Køng) Museum is a museum with fabrics that is located in the main building of a textile factory from the 18th century.

Niels Ryberg, who was born in Salling, North Jutland founded Kong Factory....

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Karrebæksminde Fiskeri- og Bymuseum
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Gåsetårnet
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The Danish Castle Centre

In the heart of Vordingborg is The Danish Castle Centre – a reminder of the medieval heyday in South Zealand – told in a new way. 

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Rønnebæksholm
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Rønnebæksholm Art Centre

Visit Rønnebæksholm Art Centre, beautifully located in historical surroundings and lush green nature just outside Næstved. With rotating exhibitions, events, workshops, and a cozy café, there’s always something to experience.

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Lodshuset Møllestangen - Denmark's smallest museum
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Lodshuset Møllestangen - Denmark's smallest museum

Welcome to Denmark's smallest museum - Lodsudkigshus Møllestangen
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Farmhouse Museum in Keldbylille
Photo: Henning Jensen
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Farmhouse Museum in Keldbylille

In Keldbylille on Møn stands a four-length farmhouse from the 18th century. The farm stands as when Hans Hansen left the farm, with farmhouses, kitchens, stables, carts and tools.
A lovely garden, appr...

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Registry of local history for Næstved
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Registry of local history for Næstved

NæstvedArchives are archives for the entire Municipality of Næstved and contain archives created in the municipality as well as private archives.

The purpose of the Naestved Archives is to collect an...

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Psychiatric Museum Oringe
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Psychiatric Museum Oringe

In 1858 the Østifternes Mental Hospital, also known as Oringe, was opened. The asylum was designed by the architect Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll and was situated on the Oringe peninsula, which was chos...

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SEAS Electricity Museum
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SEAS Electricity Museum

Experience the great changes that have taken place since we started using different household utensils.
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Jewelry Museum
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Jewelry Museum

Different exebitions.
Workshops.

Open all year by appointment on telephone nr. 55 81 76 08

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GeoCenter Møns Klint
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GeoCenter Møns Klint

At one of Denmark’s most beautiful and most visited natural attractions, Møns Klint, you’ll find GeoCenter Møns Klint. An experience centre that tells us about the birth of Denmark, right where it all began.

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Stevns Klint Experience
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Stevns Klint Experience

Of all the places on this colossal planet, Stevns Klint is the best place to see evidence of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Travel back in time to when one dramatic event changed everything.

Photo: Emilie Theresa/Museum Sydøstdanmark
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Holmegaard Værk

Shaping, glassblowing and hard work go on at the vibrant glass workshop in the newly opened Holmegaard Værk – the Nordic region’s living museum of glass, ceramics and design. Here, glowing lumps of glass are transformed into pastel-coloured champagne glasses, artistic vases and elegant bow

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