The Green Museum is a living museum and living cultural heritage is one of the cornerstones of our work. When you explore the old Danish vegetable varieties in the agricultural botanical garden, run your fingers through the old Danish rye in the historic fields or talk to our many farm animals of old breeds, you experience a piece of the living cultural heritage that we work to preserve and communicate every day.
The Green Museum has many years of experience in working with Living Cultural Heritage and the museum spends many resources on preserving, cultivating, disseminating and researching the old Danish cultural and useful plants and animal breeds.
Below you can read more about the garden and organic farming at The Green Museum, and the knowledge associated with the subject areas. Under each subject you will find links to a number of pages with short films and more information. The films and text were prepared for the Living Cultural Heritage project, which was supported by the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration. Download the app by searching for Living Cultural Heritage wherever you download apps.
THE AGRICULTURAL BOTANICAL GARDEN
The garden was established in 1993 and is a conservation center for old varieties of cultivated plants. There are varieties from both fields and gardens, useful plants as well as ornamental plants, herbs, shrubs and trees.
The Agricultural Botanical Garden is involved in the conservation work in collaboration with the Royal Danish Veterinary and Agricultural University in Copenhagen, Pometet in Høje Tåstrup and NordGen with facilities in both Sweden and Norway.
The Agricultural Botanical Garden is laid out according to a survey map of the Gammel Estrup castle from 1803. The garden is laid out in the same place as the original kitchen garden on the site.
The Agricultural Botanical Garden, greenhouses, nursery and apple orchard are looked after by the Garden Team, which consists of 13 sheltered positions. The Garden Team was established in a collaborative project between The Green Museum and the municipality of Norddjurs.
The garden works according to ecological principles, just like the museum's agriculture.
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ORGANIC FARMING
Organic farming at The Green Museum participates in the conservation work with a number of old Danish livestock breeds that were previously important in Danish agriculture, but are now endangered for one reason or another.
Udover kulturarvsaspektet tjener bevaringsarbejdet også som en “forsikring” til avlsarbejdet i de moderne landbrug. I de gamle racers gener kan man nemlig finde forsvar mod eventuelle sygdomme og lidelser.
At the Green Museum you can meet, among other breeds, the Jutland Cattle, Red Danish Dairy Breed, Shorthorn, Black-mottled Danish Dairy Breed, Black-mottled Landrace Pig, White-headed Marsh Sheep, Dune Sheep, Danish Landrace Goat, White Danish Landrace Rabbit, Black-mottled Hens, Danish Country Hens and Danish Dwarf Country Hens.
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