With an indoor forest trip with coziness, atmosphere and tasks along the way, you can experience all the fascinating things in the forest during the winter holidays – but it takes place in the Green Museum's heated indoor forest exhibition – STORT. During the winter holidays, the Green Museum invites the whole family to a unique and educational experience in the indoor forest on an impressive…
Decorate your own gingerbread heart Come and unleash your creativity in our cozy gingerbread workshop! Every Advent weekend you can decorate your own honey heart with icing and take it home – or maybe give it as a sweet gift. Time: Advent weekends (Saturday and Sunday) from 10 am-4 pm Price: Only 15 kr. per heart (when admission is paid)…
CHRISTMAS MARKET AT THE GREEN MUSEUM / November 29 - 30 Christmas starts this year with the coziest Christmas market of the year. The traditional Christmas market at the Green Museum, Gl. Estrup is back! On the first Advent weekend, we will fill the museum with Christmas spirit, exciting stalls, fantastic smells and tasty treats. Further program will follow. We look forward to it! Read more here.
The roots & scents of Christmas: Experience 300 years of Christmas history Today, Christmas is filled with fir trees and gifts. But how was Christmas celebrated 300 years ago? Visit the Green Museum's Christmas exhibition Christmas of All Time from November 19 to December 30 and gain an insight into Christmas in Denmark through time. With the help of audio stories and…
Autumn holiday in the spirit of hunting There are a lot of exciting activities happening at Det Grønne Museum throughout the autumn holiday. The focus this year is on hunting and the forest. You can read a lot more about what is happening and what you can experience here. But don't forget to also visit our other exciting exhibitions when you visit us.
40 years of sparks and community in the forge When the hammer hits the anvil in the old forge at the Green Museum, it is with 40 years of tradition behind it. Since 1985, the blacksmiths' guild has kept the old craft alive – and now they are ready to celebrate their anniversary. Friday, September 26 at 2–4 p.m. invites…
Meet the volunteers in the Green Museum's old forge as they work at the forge and tame iron using fire, hammer and anvil, as humans have done since prehistoric times, and as has long been done at Gammel Estrup. The forge was built in 1761 as part of the large complex of farm buildings,…
MTKJ Club Championship in Ploughing 2025 – Tractors, Horses & Volunteers The Motor & Tractor Club of Jutland (MTKJ) invites you to a fireworks display of ploughing power and tradition when the club championship in ploughing is held in the fields at the Green Museum. The event offers, among other things: Competitive ploughing: Tractors compete in different classes – the ploughing competition runs from 10:00 to 14:40 with a…
K7 – free admission for young people aged 18-27 in week 37 As part of the nationwide campaign K7, The Green Museum and the neighboring museum Gammel Estrup Denmark's Manor Museum have free admission for young people up to 27 years of age throughout week 37. K7 is the national cultural week for young people in the period 8-14 September. Here…
LIVING MUSEUM / Recurring event / Free when admission is paid There is life in every corner of the museum when the Green Museum volunteers show up for Living Saturday. Here you can, for example, experience the museum's mediators and volunteers telling stories, serving tastings and showing examples of old crafts. Exactly what you can experience changes…
Free admission and 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 Museum completely free of charge when the ELRO Foundation invites you to this year's ELRO Day on Djursland. At the Green Museum you can meet the museum's committed volunteers and experience how old crafts and traditions are kept alive…
Meet the volunteers in the Green Museum's old forge as they work at the forge and tame iron using fire, hammer and anvil, as humans have done since prehistoric times, and as has long been done at Gammel Estrup. The forge was built in 1761 as part of the large complex of farm buildings,…
Meet the volunteers in the Green Museum's old forge as they work at the forge and tame iron using fire, hammer and anvil, as humans have done since prehistoric times, and as has long been done at Gammel Estrup. The forge was built in 1761 as part of the large complex of farm buildings,…
LIVING MUSEUM / Free when the entrance fee is paid There is a smell of replacement coffee from Madam Blå when the Polakhusgruppen moves into the Green Museum's farm worker's house. The house, which is called Polakhuset, is the only remaining of the original farm worker's houses at Gammel Estrup. You can always enter the house, but on these days you can also meet…
LIVING MUSEUM / recurring / Free when admission is paid Meet the Green Museum's volunteer beekeepers in the beekeepers' guild as they look after the museum's historic apiary, which is located close to the forest and meadow between Gl. Estrup's breeding buildings and Smedjen. The Green Museum's apiary consists of various historical hive types and shows the development of beekeeping from approx. 1850 to…
LIVING MUSEUM / Recurring event / Free when admission is paid Meet the volunteers in the Tractor Workshop, where they work on many types of tasks. For example, the machines come for inspection and repair in the Tractor Workshop before the museum volunteers use them in their work on the Historical Fields. The Tractor Workshop is always full of life, sound and partially assembled…
Meet the tour guides who will tell you about the large agricultural and forestry machines, carts and tools that stand in rows in the museum's Visitor's Magazine. The Green Museum's Visitor's Magazine is located in two of Gl. Estrup's breeding buildings: the Riding House and the Agerumsladen. Here is a selected part of the Green Museum's large collections, cartwheel by cartwheel and bird's wing by bird's wing...
Meet the volunteers in the Green Museum's old forge as they work at the forge and tame iron using fire, hammer and anvil, as humans have done since prehistoric times, and as has long been done at Gammel Estrup. The forge was built in 1761 as part of the large complex of farm buildings,…
Summer holiday at the Green Museum 10 am – 5 pm / Summer holiday activities / We have packed the summer with great experiences for all ages and provided space for holiday activities, big arm movements and quiet immersion both inside our new exhibition UNDER THE SUN, but also in our large outdoor areas at the Green Museum at Gammel Estrup.…
Throughout the year, the museum's Karle- og Pigelaug is out working in the historic fields. Come and experience their work, and if you're lucky, you might even get some fresh, newly dug potatoes to take home. This year's program. Thursday, April 10th 12:00-15:00 This year's walk in the Historic Fields Lay…
