'Farmer for a day' – this year's summer activity at The Green Museum

At the Green Museum, you can use your senses, thoughts and muscles as a 'Farmer for a Day' during the summer holidays. A newly built farm worker environment at child height and an activity tour inside and outside form the perfect knowledge and experience framework for the whole family for this year's summer activity.

Now you can explore life as a Polish farm worker in 1916, and gain a unique insight into what it was like to be a migrant worker in Denmark 100 years ago.

People have always moved from one city to another, from one country to another, or even from one continent to another. Adventure or love may be some of the reasons, but persecution, war, poverty; or lack of work have also helped to move many people throughout history.

The Haladin family

In 1916, the Polish Haladin family moved into the Polakhuset at the manor house Gl. Estrup as farm workers. The family consisted of father, mother and 6 children, and they did what several thousand Poles had done every year since the latter part of the 19th century. They traveled back and forth between Denmark and Poland as seasonal agricultural workers.

The consequences of the war

But for the Polish seasonal workers, the journey to Denmark in 1916 went through a war-torn Europe. Because World War I (1914-1918) was at its peak, and when the year's seasonal work ended, they could not go home. Many chose to take long-term contracts and stayed in Denmark – even after the war ended.

Farm worker life at child height

During the summer holidays you can follow in the footsteps of the Haladin family and explore life as a Polish farm worker. The activity tour starts in a newly built farm worker environment at child height – with room for the whole family.

A farm worker's house, inspired by the Polish House, surrounded by a vegetable garden and a field where beets and potatoes are grown – and of course chickens in the backyard.

Find out who lived in the Polish House in 1916, feel how much a week's worth of potatoes weighs, help the landowner with the hunt, taste beetroot soup made according to a Polish recipe, hear about why the Polish House is built of brick and not wood - and finally make your own mini brick and stamp it with your logo.

This interesting and educational experience package, which can take anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours, depending on how much you want to delve into the history and activities, is free for the whole family when the entrance ticket to the two museums is paid. As a new feature, this year's summer holiday offer has also been translated into English, so that the museum's foreign guests can also get the whole experience.

Visit the original Polakhus

The Haladin family did not live alone, but shared a farm worker's house with 9 young Polish women. The house was built at Gl. Estrup in 1909 and was intended to house the Polish seasonal workers. The Polish house is today part of the Green Museum and has been preserved largely as it was when the Haladin family moved in.

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FACTS

'Farmer for a day':  Activity tour for the whole family including tasting and making of mini bricks

Period: June 24 – August 13

Time: 10:00-17:00 (tastings and brick workshop 10:00-16:30)

Price: Free when admission is paid

Language: Danish and English.

Other summer offers: Meet the volunteers, the Walk of the Year, the history of the Polakhuset and weekly offers in Madens Hus with dissemination and user involvement.