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[ The Funen Village - The open-air museum "The Funen Village" is an experience for the whole family. Here you can wander around between the old thatched houses and get an impression of the every day life and village life at Funen around the years 1600-1800. You can step i ] Read more ....
[ The Time Collection - Was it in the 50's or 60's that mum and dad, granny and grandad experienced this or that? When did electricity, lighting and television enter our living rooms? The recent past can feel very distant. Visit Tidens Samling (The Time Collection). We hope ] Read more ....
[ The City Museum - The city museum "Møntergården" cosists of houses from the 16th century up to today. The museum has exhibitions about Odense in the Viking Age and the Middle Ages. Furthermore you can experience interior from the 17th-18th century and see photographs ] Read more ....
[ House of Hans Christian Andersen - In the atmospheric Hans Christian Andersen district in Odense you can visit the house where the great writer of fairy tales, Hans Christian Andersen, lived. The museum takes the visitors back to the period 1805-1875 when he wrote his fairytales. A vi ] Read more ....
[ Hans Christian Andersen´s home as a child - In his childhood years the writer of fairy tales, Hans Christian Andersen, lived with his parents in Munke Møllestræde 3-5 in Odense. Today two living rooms are converted into a museum. The museum gives an impression of the hard conditions in the hom ] Read more ....
[ Odense Castle/King's Garden - Odense Castle was built in the 15th century by munks from the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. In the 1560 the monastery was rebuilt to become Frederik II´s castle.It has been used as a castle till 1907.  In addition a beautiful garden was land ] Read more ....
[ The Cathedral of Odense - The Church of Canute is the name of the Cathedral in Odense. You can catch a glimpse of the church tower from all the major approach roads to the city. The Cathedral was founded in the 11th century and reconstructed around 1280 as teh most perfect Go ] Read more ....
[ Danish Railway Museum - Visit the Danish Railway Museum. Here children can play engine drivers in a real driver´s cab, ride the mini train, play train computer games or romp about in the playground area. Particularly during the school holidays there are a lot of activities ] Read more ....
[ Architecture in the city centre - Join a guided tour and have a look at lots of fascinating architecture in the streets of Odense. The architecture guide is dev ] Read more ....
[ Sculptures in the city centre - Odense is known for its many sculptures in the city centre. You can explore the city centre sculptures with Odense Municipality´s sculpture guide. ] Read more ....
[ Funen's Art Gallery - Funen´s Art Gallery presents a collection of authentic funen art from around 1750. Among others you can see: Vilh. Hammershøi, Vilh. Lundstrøm, Franciska Clausen and Robert Jacobsen. Furthermore the gallery has various temporary exhibitions with Dani ] Read more ....
[ Iron Age Village - The Iron Age Village is a reconstructed ancient environment built according to findings from archeological excavations. The village is a "historical workshop" where in theory and practice you can obtain an insight in the general living condition ] Read more ....
[ Carl Nielsen Museum - The museum gives a detailed, chronologically constructed picture of the life and work of the composer Carl Nielsen - and of his wife, the sculptress Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen. ] Read more ....
[ Danish Media Museum - A museum of both printed media and electronic media and their history. ] Read more ....
[ The Museum of Art Photography - A museum of national art photography. The museum consists of a permanent collection and 6-8 times per year the museum opens its doors to Danish and internatinal exhibitions. ] Read more ....
[ The Art Gallery Brandt's Klædefabrik - The art gallery Brandts Klædefabrik (Brandt´s old cloth mill): Temporary Danish and foreign exhibitions with focus on contemporary art. The museum shows thematic exhibitions and exhibitions where children get the opportunity to use all their sen ] Read more ....
[ Brandts Klædefabrik - Brandt's Cloth Mill - Experience exciting exhibitions in the old, beautiful building: Brandt´s Klædefabrik (Brandt´s old cloth mill). The cloth mill closed down in 1977 after having been one of Odense´s largest work places for more than 100 years. Today the building is th ] Read more ....
[ In the Footsteps of Hans Christian Andersen - Hans Christian Andersen\'s home city has changed a great deal since he was a child. Even so, there still remain buildings and specific areas in the city, which look exactly as they did when the poet ran around in his childhood days. Round about the c ] Read more ....
   
             
 
The Liveable City project is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through the Interreg IIIB North Sea Region Programme
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