
Middelaldercentret
Sign in to saveMiddelaldercentret () is an experimental living history archaeological open-air museum in Denmark, which depicts the Middle Ages in the Denmark of the late 14th and early 15th centuries. It is located in Sundby Lolland, some 4 km northwest of the centre of Nykøbing Falster on the waterfront of Guldborgsund.
Key facts
- Museum.name
- Middelaldercentret
- Museum.native_name_lang
- Danish
- Museum.image
- Blide middelaldercentret.jpg
- Museum.caption
- The trebuchet at the Middle Ages Center
- Museum.location
- Middelaldercentret, Ved Hamborgskoven 2, Sundby. 4800 Nykøbing Falster
- Museum.type
- Open-air museum
- Museum.visitors
- 44.968 (2016)
- Museum.founder
- Peter Vemming
- Museum.director
- Poul Schreiner Hansen (interim director)
- Museum.curator
- Thit Birk Petersen
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Middelaldercentret () is an experimental living history archaeological open-air museum in Denmark, which depicts the Middle Ages in the Denmark of the late 14th and early 15th centuries. It is located in Sundby Lolland, some 4 km northwest of the centre of Nykøbing Falster on the waterfront of Guldborgsund.
It features a town built as part of a typical Danish market town with craftsmen, a harbour with ships and boats, and a market place. The employees are dressed in period costumes and live and work in the houses and do everyday activities such as craftmanship, cooking and weapon training. Furthermore, the museum has a variety of siege weapons of the period, such as trebuchets, a ballista and a cannon and smaller weapons such as handguns, longbows and crossbows. All of the items are built on site using period tools. Activities include live firing of the weapons daily, archery, knightly tournaments, and demonstrations of crafts and tasks from the late 14th century and early 15th centuries.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Middelaldercentret” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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