Odense City Museums

Odense City Museums (Danish: Odense Bys Museer) is a department in City and Culture administration (Danish: By- og Kulturforvaltningen), which again is a department in Odense municipality administration. It runs and administers all museums in Odense municipality.

The first Museum in Odense opened in 1860 under the name Nordisk Museum located in Odense Palace. During 1885 it moved to a newly erected building, a few hundred meters from Odense Palace – this building today houses the Funen Art Museum, was renamed to Museum Civitatis Othiniensis and came under municipal administration. In 1904 the name changed to Fyns Stiftsmuseum.

During the next many years new museums opened (and closed), got renamed and moved around. Starting in 1997, Odense City Museums has been run as one museum with the formerly independent museums around the city as departments.

Museums
  • Hans Christian Andersen Museum, current main museum for H.C. Andersen.[1][2]
  • Hans Christian Andersen Birthplace (H.C. Andersens Hus), original 1908 museum for H.C. Andersen.[3]
  • Hans Christian Andersen's Childhood Home (H.C. Andersens Barndomshjem).[4]
  • House of Fairytales (or the New Hans Christian Andersen Museum), set to open in 2020.[5]
  • The Tinderbox (Fyrtøjet) – a children's cultural centre based on Andersen's fairy tales
  • The Funen Village (Den Fynske Landsby)
  • Carl Nielsen Museum (Carl Nielsen Museet)
  • Carl Nielsen Childhood home (Carl Nielsen Barndomshjem)
  • Funen's Art Museum (Fyns Kunstmuseum)
  • Møntergården (Møntergården) – Contains the remains of the Koelbjerg Man (c. 8,000 BC), the oldest known bog body and human remains found in Denmark.[6]
  • Thriges Kraftcentral – the power station for Thomas B. Thrige's factory
  • Hollufgård (not open to the public since 1 January 2004).

References
  1. "Hans Christian Andersen's Museum". Visit Odense. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  2. "H.C. Andersen Museum". H.C. Andersen Odense. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  3. "Hans Christian Andersen's Birthplace". Visit Odense. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  4. "H.C. Andersen's Childhood Home". Visit Odense. Retrieved 8 October 2019. The little house where H.C. Andersen lived with his parents from the age of 2 to 14, was opened as a museum in 1930.
  5. "House of Fairytales". Odense Bys Museer (Odense City Museums). 9 January 2017. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  6. Museum Odense: Fyn - midt i verden. Archived 2017-04-04 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 3 April 2017.
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