The 8 permanent exhibitions contain the story of Danes' lives as farmers, about technological developments in agriculture, and about food and how our food culture has developed over time.
The exhibitions include large agricultural machinery and small, delicate sugar roses, authentic kitchens and interactive installations.
The exhibition shows the history of the butchery profession from the small meat sales at the market to the cooperative slaughterhouses to the industrialized slaughterhouse. Through interactive elements, you can experience how the cooperative movement created a boom in the number of slaughterhouses and visit the iconic Danish hot dog stand. 'Meat on the table' tells the story of how the slaughterhouses changed the eating habits of the Danes in the first half of the 20th century and contains stories about the bacon pig with the extra rib, the advertising campaign 'Pig on the fork' and the development of the slaughterhouses.
'The Danish Kitchen 1950 – 2010' focuses on the development of Danish food culture from the post-war period to the present day. Built around typical kitchens from different decades, the exhibition tells stories about how the kitchen changed when women entered the workforce and how Danish food culture developed with Karolines Køkken, cookbooks with recipes and advertising campaigns such as Gris på gaffel. The exhibition also includes photos, videos and lots of iconic kitchen utensils.
The dairy exhibition "MejeRigtigt" tells the story of our milk, cheese and butter. The exhibition, named after the Dairy Association's great advertising campaigns from the 1950s, contains a mix of large original installations from the production of milk, cheese and butter, and digital stories. Visitors can experience the old dairy sales, study the modern refrigerated counter from SuperBrugsen and afterwards visit an ice cream dairy from the 1950s.
'Farmer's Life' shows how farmers' lives developed from the Neolithic period to the Landborer reforms at the end of the 18th century. The exhibition contains a number of finds – including tools – that tell the story of how the forest was felled with flint axes, as well as illustrative models that, among other things, tell about the replacement at the end of the 18th century.
'Agriculture and Technology' is the exhibition that shows the technological development of agriculture. From the time when the horse was the preferred draft animal, life in the countryside was characterized by the new large and noisy machines. The exhibition contains a wealth of the machines that have come to mean so much to modern agriculture, including the iconic gray Ferguson, which has become the symbol of post-war agriculture.
The exhibition in the Polakhuset shows the hard life of the many farm workers – Danish and foreign. The house is the only one of the original workers' homes at Gl. Estrup that remains and for periods Polish farm worker families have lived in the house, which is why it is called the Polakhuset today. In addition to an exhibition, the house also contains an active communication apartment, which is furnished as a farm worker's home in 1915. Here there is live communication when the Polakhuset group works as farm workers. See here when you can experience the Polakhusgruppen
