The Open Air Museum Herning

Only a few minutes from Herning's pedestrian street, you can step back 200 years in history with a single step. Frilandsmuseet Herning offers a real, old-fashioned village atmosphere when it shows country life as it was lived on the heath in the 1800s.

Life on the heath in central and western Jutland

Frilandsmuseet Herning gives you a very special opportunity to experience country life on the West and Central Jutland heath, as it took place in the 1800th century. Between the old fruit trees you can move in and out of a cozy farm environment, where volunteers every Thursday forge iron, look after the garden, grow honey and maintain the buildings using old craft techniques.

Indoors you will find our occupation apartment and the exhibition about the folklore collector Evald Tang Kristensen. But you can also explore Jens Nielsen's Farm, which is one of the museum's most popular attractions - especially for children. Here, more than 100 different perspective boxes show life and the course of the year on a farm in the early 1900s.

The sound of the 1800th century

In the farmhouse, you can get an authentic sound experience of a heath farming family's everyday life in the latter half of the 1800th century. In the drawing room, the family talks about the daily chores, and the children pester the father to tell a fairy tale, which of course he does. There are crackling sounds from the tiling oven, the clock is ticking and a woman hums a hymn by Brorson as she spins the stingray. The sound installation is rooted in the research project 'Soundscapes in authentic buildings', which is supported by the Velux Foundation.

Museum Midtjylland

Frilandsmuseet is part of Museum Midtjylland, which consists of four cultural history museums, each of which tells a piece of the history of Central Jutland. Both the one that is several thousand years old. And the one that still lives in memories, people and craftsmanship. So stop by, discover history - and experience a Central Jutland both before, now and tomorrow. 

You can read much more about the museum's activities, exhibitions and many different events and experiences at museummidtjylland.dk

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