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Wild autumn holiday at the Green Museum The Green Museum on Djursland offers a number of activities with a focus on hunting during the autumn holiday. Children and adults can, among other things, try archery…

We're looking for a stuffed Labrador - do you have one lying around? This week's report, Kirsten Hüttemeier's protective sleeves and hoses from a slurry tanker. It's not a recipe for an Olsen gang heist, but some of…

Important information for our visitors on September 30th Gammel Estrup will be closed on September 30th due to roof work. The Green Museum is open with half price tickets. Visit our exciting exhibitions…

Experience Ulla Vejby Live: An Afternoon with ‚Badehotellet's‛ Edith Ulla Vejby from ‚Badehotellet‛ shares behind-the-scenes anecdotes and sings songs in a lecture at Det Grønne Museum, on November 3rd from…

Tractor plowing and historical experiences On Saturday, September 21, The Green Museum, in collaboration with the Motor and Tractor Club of Jutland (MTKJ), welcomes you to a day filled with tractor plowing, horses and historical experiences…

Historic sable hunting on Djursland – Experience the grandeur of hunting riding Experience free sable hunting on September 7th at Det Grønne Museum and Gammel Estrup. See hunting riding, old crafts, and enjoy historical exhibitions in…

Umut Sakarya is visiting us on September 4th! We are happy to announce that the famous Danish chef Umut Sakarya will be visiting The Green Museum on September 4th!…

Experience history on your plate: Meat-free Tuesdays during the occupation. Join us on a culinary journey through time when The Green Museum, in collaboration with restaurant Den Gamle Stald, invites you to “Meat-free Tuesdays”…

Fantastic day at the Children's Culture Festival! Yesterday we had the great pleasure of being part of the Children's Culture Festival at Gammel Estrup, and it was a day filled with smiles, laughter and…

A journey through the development of farm animals Throughout the summer, the focus is on our farm animals and not least their development over the last 70 years. The Green Museum is ready to…

Randers Theatre collaborates with The Green Museum on the performance Miss Jensen's Cookbook Randers Theatre is delighted to present a unique collaboration with The Green Museum in…

Experience European Championships on Djursland Østjysk Køre Selskab and The Green Museum invite you to a weekend filled with excitement, raw strength, precision and elegance, where horsepower and the horse as a working animal throughout history...

Experience The Green Museum at the Agricultural Fair 2024! The Green Museum is pleased to be part of the Agricultural Fair again this year on May 25-26, 2024 on the museum's beautiful grounds…

Geothermal energy to heat The Green Museum No less than 22 km of geothermal heating pipes are currently being dug into the museum's fields. The project is one of several ambitious initiatives to promote sustainability. …

Experience historical crafts and taste experiences on Living Saturday At the Green Museum, there will be plenty of activity on Saturday, May 4th from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM, where we will be holding this year's…

Bettina Buhl from Det Grønne Museum makes her debut as a TV host in "Badehotellets Kokkeskole" The Det Grønne Museum is proud to announce that our own food historian, Bettina Buhl, can now add…

The Old Stable is now open! We are happy to announce that The Old Stable at The Green Museum has its first opening day today, Saturday, March 23!…

The Green Museum participates in national climate project We are pleased to announce our participation in the nationwide pilot project “More water in the system”. This initiative, supported by a…

Easter holiday – The Green Museum's chickens are on ÆGventyr! At the Green Museum, the Easter holiday is filled with exciting activities tailored for children and their families. Right from the…

New duo revives Den Gamle Stald at Det Grønne Museum. New tenant Morten Jensen, together with former tenant Kim Thygesen, will ensure local culinary expertise and wonderful experiences at…

Internationally award-winning architectural firms win design of new exhibition for The Green Museum JAC STUDIOS and Heijmerink Wagemakers have won the EU tender and architectural competition for the establishment of the new main exhibition for The Green Museum.

Record number of visitors during the winter holidays. The Green Museum and Gammel Estrup Denmark's Manor Museum have seen an increase in visitor numbers of over 10%. A good 3,300 guests have visited the two museums,…

The Green Museum and Gammel Estrup give annual passes to guests When The Green Museum and Gammel Estrup Denmark's Manor Museum open on Saturday, February 10, it will be with a really good…

Would you like to be a tenant of Den Gamle Stald? Right now there is a very exceptional opportunity to become a tenant of restaurant Den Gamle Stald, located in the beautiful,…

Dive into the forest during the winter holidays 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...

Restaurant Den Gamle Stald bankrupt The leased restaurant, Den Gamle Stald, which was a popular dining venue at the museums, has unfortunately been declared bankrupt and thus closed. Museum guests will therefore no longer…

This year's almond gift idea One of the most important competitive Christmas traditions on Christmas Eve is undoubtedly the 'fight for the almond gift'. But do you know why we have an almond gift and have to find the whole almond in the rice bowl?…

Enjoy the Christmas month at The Green Museum During the Christmas month, The Green Museum invites all visitors to a unique journey through Denmark's cozy Christmas history in the exhibition Christmas of All Time and an enchanting Christmas market,…

Living Saturday: An experience of the past Almost every first Saturday of the month, The Green Museum is filled with life, laughter and learning, all thanks to 'Living Saturday'. This monthly…

Opening of the exhibition – Hunting with Storm P On Monday, October 16 at 11 am (during the autumn holidays), The Green Museum opens its doors to a new limited-time special exhibition with a focus…

New member of the herd at Det Grønne Museum We have the great pleasure of presenting our newest member of the herd: A majestic Ertebølle ram that has now moved into Det…

Autumn holiday in the spirit of hunting Whether you are a child or an adult, there are countless opportunities for fun activities and fascinating experiences on the program - which also offers a whole...

Living Saturday at the Green Museum: A day full of experiences On selected Saturdays, the Green Museum transforms into a vibrant center for activities and taste experiences. 'Living Saturday' is a…

Last chance to capture the "hunter's gaze"! Time is running out, and our photo exhibition "hunter's gaze" is facing its final week at the Green Museum. So if you still…

A Saturday filled with tractors, horses and apples! If you want to experience a Saturday filled with activities, you should stop by when the Green Museum opens its doors…

The Green Museum's History of Denmark At The Green Museum, we are embarking on an exciting new phase in the development of our upcoming exhibition (The Green Museum's History of Denmark), which will tell…

Free admission for young people in week 37 K7, the national youth culture week, is back and ready to set new records in 2023. From September 11th to 17th,…

The ELRO Foundation provides free access to experiences at The Green Museum and Gammel Estrup. As part of the so-called ELRO days, there is free admission for everyone at The Green Museum…

Delighted with progress during the summer holidays The Green Museum and Gammel Estrup Denmark's Manor Museum have had a really good summer, which has offered many active family experiences, happy guests and not...

Østjysk Køre Selskab celebrates anniversary with a rally at the Green Museum Visit the Green Museum on Saturday, August 12 and experience a historic day filled with traditional driving and timber hauling,…

Joy over new neighbors Aarhus University's Department of Food Science has now officially opened the doors to their new buildings. This opens a new chapter, where the two…

Step into history at the Green Museum Take a journey back in time to 1916 and experience how Polish farm workers lived in the Danish agricultural community. At the Green Museum…

The Secrets of Root Vegetables Discover the culinary treasures of the Middle Ages: From the magical healing properties of beetroot to the sumptuous serving of salted mutton and pickled beetroot at festive tables! About the use of root vegetables in prehistoric times and…

Ancient Danish oak trees reveal their secrets! Did you know that the Royal Oak in Denmark was probably already growing in the Viking Age? Ancient trees are part of our cultural heritage and have been a popular…

'Farmer for a day' – this year's summer activity at Det Grønne Museum At Det Grønne Museum you will use your senses, thoughts and muscles during the summer holidays as a 'Farmer for a day'.…

Fully booked for guided tours until mid-August At the Green Museum it is possible to book guided tours to gain a lot of extra exciting knowledge about the exhibitions and…

Activity-packed Lively Saturday, June 3rd Now we are starting the first summer month of the year, and the beautiful weather also means that the outdoor area at The Green Museum looks impressive and seductive…

Premiere of 6-course Danish food culture Food historian Bettina Buhl from The Green Museum has put together a serving consisting of six small dishes, all of which are in their own fantastic way…

The Rad Cleaner Retakes the Green Museum At the Green Museum, only organic farming is practiced. This also means that every year there is a bigger battle between our farmer and…

Saturday, May 20th is World Bee Day. In an attempt to focus on the difficult conditions of bees and their great importance to food production worldwide,…

The Green Museum awarded the Green Attraction eco-label. The name is binding. There was therefore no doubt that The Green Museum would work hard to become among the first museums in…

Get out of breath... in the good museum way. The Green Museum's Living Saturday on May 6th offers so many exciting and fun activities that you'll end up feeling...

Villemoes Fertilizer Spreader The museum's collection contains one of the most popular fertilizer spreaders, namely Villemoes Fertilizer Spreader. It is not part of the visible exhibition, but is stored in one of…

At the table with Danish giants Now there is an opportunity to try out a completely new and different cultural sensory and knowledge experience. Because now you can experience the exclusive gourmet dinners 'Til…

New photo exhibition inaugurated On Tuesday, March 28, the new photo exhibition Jægerblik was inaugurated at Det Grønne Museum. A photo series consisting of 16 completely unique and fantastic photos taken by Danish…

Allan, Almar and Amund take over the Green Museum One of the things that is always certain is that when spring comes, the new baby animals peek out from the darkness.…

The lift to the exhibition STORT closed on Saturday, March 25. The exhibition 'Stort – Man and the Forest' is still open to visitors. But to get to it, you have to…

An ÆGstra Easter experience Eggs mean new life and the arrival of spring! The Green Museum celebrates this with activities and stories about eggs throughout Easter. Here you and your family can be…

New photo exhibition opens March 28 In collaboration with the Danish Hunters' Association, The Green Museum will inaugurate a different photo exhibition on March 28 with a focus on living animals and beautiful nature - but...

The Object of the Month sees the light of day As something new at The Green Museum, the museum's head of the conservation department, Esben Bøgh Sørensen, will select an exciting object every month that is not included…

What should we exhibit? A hunting experience is always a breathtaking natural experience; and many hunters don't just go hunting for animals with guns in hand. Often they also shoot wildly…

The Polakhuset is temporarily closed Until June 3, the Polakhuset is closed to museum guests, as we are in the process of moving around inside the house and its…

Significant upgrade of 'Living Saturday' The 'Living Saturday' offering, which the museum holds on the first Saturday in selected months, will be significantly upgraded in 2023 in terms of the amount of offerings and thus...

Museum guests planted a forest the size of two football fields. During the winter holidays, there were lots of happy guests of all ages who participated in the many free activities at the…

Shrove Tuesday traditions Shrove Tuesday came to Denmark in the 14th century with German traders, who called it 'Fasteabend', which means the evening before Lent. For 40 days after that, people were not allowed to eat meat, but only…

The Green Museum celebrates Legume Day Danes eat too few legumes. On Legume Day, Friday 10 February, chefs and food professionals show the way to tasty lentils, beans and peas. Danes eat…

We are expanding with a new guild. At the Green Museum, we, among other things, convey the cultural history of the forest, and if you are, for example, a (former) forest worker, chainsaw enthusiast, cutting specialist or in some other way a…

We're opening with a great offer! Gammel Estrup Denmark's Manor Museum and The Green Museum are opening for the winter holidays, and everyone who buys a ticket in February will automatically receive an annual pass for the…

Winter holiday with indoor forest activities During the winter holidays you can experience a wealth of exciting and educational activities for the whole family when we invite you inside for the opening of the 2023 season in the…

Get unique experiences as a volunteer at the Green Museum At the Green Museum, we convey, among other things, the cultural history of hunting, and now you, as a current or former hunter, can come along…

Christmas signs and weather omens Weather omens were taken in many places in the old farming community, and it was especially good to take omens on holidays. On the twelve days of Christmas, one could…

2022 saw an increase in visitors The Green Museum, together with our neighboring museum Gammel Estrup Denmark's Manor Museum, ended 2022 with an impressive number of visitors of 97,888. This is an increase of…

New Year's Eve at the Green Museum There was plenty of activity and life at the Green Museum on Friday morning, where the museum had the pleasure of providing premises for Norddjurs municipality's New Year's Eve...

New book on recent agricultural history The new book titled, Danish Agriculture 1945-2020, collects on 480 richly illustrated pages the most important aspects of the development and changes in Danish agriculture…

Christmas cheer and Christmas exhibitions December is just around the corner and the calendar can tell us that it is time to find the Christmas spirit, the inner elf, the Christmas music and the coziness from the hiding places...

Two exhibitions will close briefly From November 30th until the beginning/mid-December, the two exhibitions 'Farming Life' and 'Agriculture and Technology' will be closed, as we are in the process of a smaller…

Pig on the fork One of the largest and most successful advertising campaigns in Danish history and perhaps the primary reason why both Christmas Eve and Christmas lunch from the late 50s have the industrial pork…

A very special Christmas gift for school children Now that Christmas is approaching, the Green Museum's education department has found the Christmas spirit and made a really nice Christmas gift for schools and institutions. For…

50 years is no age – for frozen semen One of the museum's rare shorthorn cows recently underwent a different fertilization when she was inseminated with frozen semen from…

Remember – Christmas market on November 26-27! Our traditional and popular Christmas market is approaching – and this year it is, if possible, even bigger than usual. At the time of writing, there are…

Hubertus Hunt for Children on a Fancy Horse Come to the Hubertus Hunt on a Fancy Horse with The Green Museum and Gammel Estrup Denmark's Manor Museum. On November 12th we will be holding a fun Hubertus Hunt on Fancy Horses for the museums'…

The winner of the Game of the Year 2022 has been found. A lovely and atmospheric Sunday at the Green Museum ended with a well-deserved announcement of the winner of the Game of the Year when Anika Madsen from…

Living Saturday, November 5th There is ample opportunity to come and have a wonderful day at the Green Museum and meet some of our many volunteers at Living…

Gourmet evening sold out! On Friday, November 4, Restaurant Den Gamle Stald and Det Grønne Museum will once again be hosting an exclusive gourmet evening. But the restaurant has been out and about hanging up the red lights…

Lots of families with children and activities during the autumn break! The autumn break at the Green Museum was all about hunting in the reopened exhibition BIG. And based on the guests' reaction and attendance, it was…

Winter opening hours start on October 24th. After a well-spent autumn holiday, it is now really late autumn and the beginning of winter. It is also now that we…

Charge your electric car at the Green Museum The Green Museum has established 4 charging stations for electric cars, they are located in the parking lot at the two museums (Gammel Estrup Danmarks…

STORT reopens on Saturday, October 15. There are only a few days left until the popular and beautiful forest exhibition 'STORT – people and the forest' opens its doors again in other…

Autumn holiday in the spirit of the forest and hunting – press release Whether you are a child or an adult, there are plenty of exciting opportunities at the Green Museum during the autumn holiday. This year…

Sale of the Green Museum's Apple Trees Sweet or sour? Green or red? Eating or cooking? No matter what your preference is in terms of apple type, there are good options for…

A Saturday full of activities, tractors and apples! Saturday, September 17th is full of activities. Because when The Green Museum opens its doors that day, it will be with…

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…

Good visitor numbers for two of Norddjur's cultural lighthouses Gammel Estrup Denmark's Manor Museum and The Green Museum have enjoyed a really good summer. Especially if you look at the visitor numbers for the two…

Karen Blixen, Hot Dogs and Norddjurs The Food Festival Aarhus will be held on September 2-4, and in this connection, The Green Museum's food historian Bettina Buhl has a busy - but extremely exciting - program...

BIG(T) MOVE In just a few days – Monday, August 22 – we at The Green Museum will begin packing up and moving our popular exhibition about the forest; BIG. The reason…

Soon it will be time to harvest. There is not much left to chance when it comes to harvesting, for example. Here our operations manager for the museum's agriculture, Christian Svanholm, tells us…

Wild Food Championship 2022 – Reserve November 6th now. Wild animals from Denmark's nature play the main role at the Wild Food Championship at the Green Museum on Djursland. Here is…

DR P2 visits the Green Museum On Thursday, August 11th in the morning, journalist Thorkil Jacobsen from the Aftryk program on DR P2 visited the Green Museum.…

Grain and bread Grain – has been the main food in Denmark since the Stone Age. Archaeological excavations from settlements show that wild-growing species of wheat (emmer, einkorn and spelt) and barley (six-rowed) have…

Over 70 offers over the summer The Green Museum is a living museum, with live exhibitions and activities. This is primarily possible thanks to the many volunteers in our 14 guilds.…

This year's themed lunches start in August. Last year, Den Gamle Stald and Det Grønne Museum joined forces and established some truly unique garden walks with accompanying lunch - and this year they will be repeated...

Folklore and elderflower Food historian Bettina Buhl tells a little about the elderflower in this video. Although the emphasis is on folklore in Denmark, there is also a little treat…

The Green Museum wins prestigious Nordic award In the EMBLA Nordic Food Awards, The Green Museum was nominated earlier this year as the Danish candidate in the category 'Nordic Food Communicator'; and…

Take a trip with 'Futte' On selected days during the summer months we are visited by the popular and very cozy train Futte, which is owned and operated by Gl. Estrup…

Summer vacation for all senses at Det Grønne Museum During the summer vacation, you can experience a museum at Det Grønne Museum that plays with all our senses. There is the opportunity to…