Den Gamle By

Denmark’s first open-air museum of its kind when it opened in 1914, and unusual in taking town culture as its subject rather than village life. Seventy-five historical buildings, gathered from twenty townships across the country and rebuilt here, form a small half-timbered town of structures raised between 1550 and the late nineteenth century. Inside are some twenty-seven rooms and kitchens, thirty-four workshops, ten shops, five historical gardens, a post office, a customs office, a school and a theatre. Staff work the town in role as merchant, blacksmith and the rest. It draws more than 400,000 visitors a year.