Free experiences at two unique museums for ELRO Day

On Saturday, September 6, you can experience both the Green Museum and Gammel Estrup Denmark's Manor House Museum completely free of charge when the ELRO Foundation invites you to this year's ELRO Day on Djursland.

The two neighboring museums are open all day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and offer a variety of activities, tastings, and tours. ELRO Day is an excellent opportunity to have a full day filled with cultural history and experiences for the whole family – without costing a penny in admission.

Living manor history
At Gammel Estrup you can meet some of the museum's many volunteers who keep the old traditions alive. Visit the sewing room, where the seamstresses work to sew historical costumes and textiles for the manor's halls and rooms. Or the historic manor kitchen, where you can meet the housemaid and buy a piece of cake baked according to 100-year-old recipes - served with coffee brewed at Madam Blå. There is also the opportunity to join free tours of the manor's living rooms and halls and hear about both the nobility and servants through time.

In this year's new exhibition The invisible world of servants For the first time, guests can step into an atmospheric attic from the early 1900s. Here are clotheslines, old furniture, hunting trophies, moth-eaten textiles and things that were once part of the manor's life, but are now banished from the fine rooms. The exhibition combines interiors with light and sound installations, and you can experience a large model of the manor, showing the maids' route around the many floors.

History, crafts and tastings
At the Green Museum you can meet the museum's dedicated volunteers and experience how old crafts and traditions are kept alive. The day offers a number of tastings, prepared according to historical recipes, and you can see, among other things, how grain was threshed in the past with a threshing machine. All around the museum, guilds work with everything from blacksmithing and archery to the machines in the tractor workshop, and in the Polakhuset you can hear about the life and food of farm workers. The museum's historic fields and animal enclosures are open to guests, so you can get up close to the old Danish breeds of farm animals.

ELRO Day is also a good opportunity to experience Under the Sun – The Green Museum’s new signature exhibition, which opened for the summer holidays – where there will also be 3 free introductions by museum curator Anette Stavensø Møller on this day. The exhibition takes guests on a sensory and thought-provoking journey through the last 80 years of history with a focus on hunting, forestry, agriculture and food. It focuses on both the progress and challenges that have shaped our lives today – from climate change to changes in our relationship with nature.

Free admission all day
Both Gammel Estrup and Det Grønne Museum are open from 10 am to 5 pm on Saturday, September 6, and admission is free all day for all guests.

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FACTS: ELRO day at Gammel Estrup and the Green Museum

Date: Saturday, September 6, 2025
Time: 10 am–5 pm
Location: The Green Museum & Gammel Estrup Denmark's Manor House Museum, Auning, Djursland
Entrance: Free admission all day

 

Highlights of the day:

• Experience old crafts and taste historical dishes at the Green Museum
• 3 free introductions to the new exhibition Under the Sun
• The new big exhibition Under the Sun about the last 80 years of pursuit of the good life
• Join free tours of Gammel Estrup's living rooms and halls.
• Meet volunteers and buy coffee and cake in the Manor Kitchen
• Experience the exhibition The invisible world of servants in the attic.