The Beekeepers' Guild

During the summer season, the Beekeepers' Guild looks after the museum's bees and on selected days you can meet them in the Beekeeping Garden, where they are happy to show and tell about the bees (contributions can be borrowed). The members of the guild all have a lot of knowledge about beekeeping and they are happy to tell anyone interested. The guild ensures that the bees are well, so that they are not affected by, for example, diseases or mites. The guild helps maintain the hives and the pavilion in the Beekeeping Garden, so that the bees have the best living conditions. Of course, they also harvest honey from the hives, which can be purchased in the Museum Shop.

Brewers Guild

Beer has been brewed for thousands of years and the Brewers' Guild carries on this tradition. They work with beer brewing as it might have been done in the countryside in the 19th century. The guild therefore works with, among other things, yeast wreaths and in wooden vats and it is their knowledge of the brewing phases that helps ensure a good result. They hand out the beer as tasting samples at the museum's events. In late summer, they pick hops and guests can help sort them afterwards. The guild uses the hops to give flavor to the Christmas beer.

The Bow Guild

As a bowmaker, it takes a lot of patience to create a good bow from a piece of wood, and that is exactly what the Bow Guild does. They meet once a month and work with wooden sticks at cutting benches, where they carefully make longbows with hand tools. Stringing and arrows are also one of the tasks for the guild. In addition to the work of making bows, the guild participates in the museum's activities, where they show both the work of making and the finished bows. The guild is happy to show visitors to the museum, who can also take a seat at the cutting bench and try working with the band knife.

The Gardener's Guild

The guild meets every week and looks after the plants in the Guldkorn exhibition all year round. They make sure to always have fresh plants ready, so a large part of their work takes place in the Grow House, where they experiment with different cultivation methods. During the summer season, they are also busy in the garden at Polakhuset, where the plants that are appropriate for the age of the house also have to be looked after. You can meet the guild inside and outside the museum and they are always ready to tell you what they are doing – the members of the guild all have a great interest in working with plants.

The Hunting Guild

The Hunting Guild is one of the museum's newest guilds. It is not a requirement that you have to be a hunter to become a member of the guild, but many of the members are. Therefore, the guild also has a wide range of experiences within hunting that you can learn from. The guild has in-depth knowledge of both the large manor hunts and the small-scale hunt – and everything in between. The guild communicates to the museum's events both through their own stories as hunters and through activities.

The Boys and Girls' Club

On the Historic Fields, old varieties of grain, potatoes and beets are grown – and it is Karle- og Pigelauget that maintains the fields, as one might have done on a smaller farm in the 1960s. Therefore, both crops and machinery are also suitable for that time. They take care of sowing, cleaning, harvesting, hilling and whatever else needs to be done to ensure a good harvest. Guests are welcome to join in the work and you can always be allowed to clean the time-consuming beets in particular. In winter, when field work is at a standstill, Karle- og Pigelauget sells sheaves and potatoes for the museum's large events, and you can often try out your talents as a rope maker.

The Food Guild

Whether they are 4000-year-old recipes or completely new ones, the museum's Food Guild is happy to test them in Madens Hus. Often these are recipes that are tested as part of a research or dissemination project. In recent years, the guild has, for example, focused on food, raw materials and recipes from the past 75 years, as part of the work on the museum's large signature exhibition, which will open in 2025. The guild works in the historic kitchens in Madens Hus, and with access to vegetables in the Agricultural Botanical Garden and the library with the historical cookbooks, both raw materials, recipes and kitchen technology can be matched so that they historically fit the same period. The Food Guild also participates in the museum's activities and in this way helps to ensure the opportunity for guests to get taste samples and a chat about the historical recipes.

The Dairymen's Guild

Freshly churned butter and cheeses – the guild produces both and offers tastings to guests at many of the museum’s events. With their craftsmanship and knowledge, they help to tell the story of an important food and secondary industry to agriculture, namely dairying. The guild participates in many of the museum’s events, but they also stop by the museum to look after the cheeses: they need to be turned occasionally while they ripen. In 2023, it is a Gauda variant that the guild itself has developed, which quietly ripens and tastes better and better with each event,

The Polakhus Group

The Polakhuset is a very special house, built for Polish farm workers in 1909. Today, on selected days during the summer, the Polakhuset group conveys rural life as it might have looked in a farm worker's home in the 1930s. When the group is in the Polakhuset, guests can be sure of good conversations in the kitchen over a cup of Rich's coffee from Madam Blå – it is always ready on the wood-burning stove.

The Forest Guild

Professionally, the Forest Guild is very broad and extends from the forest worker at the machine to the carpenter with the axe. However, the members have in common their knowledge of forests and wood. The guild supports the cultural and historical communication that the museum already does and is active at the museum's events. For example, on selected days, half-timbering is made for a half-timbered house in the exhibition STORT. In the same exhibition, the guild also ensures visitor hosts who are occasionally available and can tell about the re-enactments and life as a forest worker.

Butchers' Guild

The members of the guild have all had a connection to the butchering profession: some have had their own butcher shops while others have worked in slaughterhouses. What they all have in common is that they are keen to talk about their trade and to make and offer tastings of butchery products that one could have bought in a butcher shop in the 1940s.

Their spice blends are particularly well-known and the recipe comes from one of the members' teachers - and of course includes a secret spice blend.

The blacksmith's guild

The Blacksmiths' Guild is located in the old forge from 1761. Blacksmiths were previously found in most rural villages and were an important partner for the area's farmers. Today, the Blacksmiths' Guild shows some of the things that a rural blacksmith might have worked with, such as horseshoes or nails. However, they also do larger projects - most recently 16 hand-forged wall anchors for a historic building on Fanø that was under restoration. As a guest, you can try out the blacksmith's work at the arm bolt (closed shoes and safety glasses are mandatory).

The tractor workshop

Almost every Wednesday, the Tractor Workshop is filled with mechanics who, with great knowledge and experience, disassemble, clean, repair and assemble old agricultural machinery. In this way, the machines become ready to drive and can be used in the museum's dissemination. The Tractor Workshop participates in several of the museum's major events, and is happy to exhibit a selection of the most beloved and well-known agricultural machinery.

The hosts

The two large buildings, Ridehuset and Agerumsladen, are set up as an open Visitor's Warehouse, and here you can meet volunteers on selected days. They will guide you around among the many objects, and since they have all had a connection to agriculture, forestry or hunting, they can tell many stories about both the artifacts in the Visitor's Warehouse, but also about their own lives and experiences. Their knowledge is extensive and it is the perfect place to explore among the numerous objects in the museum.