Event: Denmark - Aarhus

The Old Town

When:	Daily
Where:	The Old Town
Costs:	Varies throughout year
Opening Hours:	Daily - opening times vary throughout the year - please see The Old Town website

The Old Town in Aarhus (National Open-Air Museum of Urban History and Culture) is a village museum made up of 75 historical buildings collected from 20 townships around Denmark. In 1914 it opened as the first museum of its kind.

The museum buildings are organised into a small village of chiefly half-timbered structures originally erected between 1550 and the late 1800s in various parts of the country and later moved to Aarhus during the 1900s. There are some 27 rooms, chambers or kitchens, 34 workshops, 10 groceries or shops, five historical gardens, a post office, a customs office, a school and a theatre.

The village itself is the main attraction but most buildings are open for visitors; rooms are either decorated in the original historical style or organised into larger exhibits. There are also several groceries, diners and workshops with museum staff working in the roles and clothes of typical villagers.