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.

Over the summer, the museum appears extra lively, as our guild meets over 70 times over the next six weeks here at the museum.

This means that as a guest you can meet a lot of people who are busy with various exciting activities.

To name just a few that you might encounter, for example:

The tractor workshop

The Green Museum has its own tractor workshop, where volunteers fix the museum's veteran tractors every Wednesday and are ready to talk to guests about the well-oiled machinery found in the workshop, the visitor magazines and in the museum exhibitions.

The Beekeepers' Guild

The Beekeepers' Guild looks after bees, as they have done since the 1850s, and they ensure that the bees in the museum's apiary are well-fed. They harvest honey from the hives a couple of times a year. The honey is sold in the Museum Shop. The guild's volunteers have extensive experience working with bees and are happy to talk about both the bees and the honey.

The Polakhus Group

The scent of substitute coffee from Madam Blå wafts over the Polakhusgruppen as they move into the Green Museum's farm worker's home. The house, which is called Polakhus, is the only remaining of the original farm worker's homes at Gammel Estrup. You can always enter the house, but on selected days you can also meet the Polakhusgruppen, busy with the laundry, in the garden, by the wood-burning stove or one of the many other activities that were part of rural life 100 years ago. But don't worry - they are never too busy to have a chat and a cup of hot Rich's substitute coffee with the guests.

But there are many more guilds that meet at different times during the summer.

You can see what's happening on each day, and read about the various 'living museum' activities on museum calendar under menu items 'it happens'.