Christmas like in the good old days
Frilandsmuseet (the open air museum) has plenty of activities and buildings brimming with Christmas decorations that show how we have prepared and celebrated this festive season for over 200 years
christmas If the perfect Christmas atmosphere eludes you, don't despair. Shake off the winter blues with a visit to Frilandsmuseet and you’re sure to get in the Christmas spirit. The museum will be open on the weekends of 29 and 30 November and 6–7 December from 10.00-16.00. Activities from 11-15. Admission, the theatre and Christmas tours are all free, but take some cash for other activities. Come and see - The Christmas gnome will be playing at 11.30, 12.30 and 14.30 at the farm from Lundager for half-hour sessions. - The Christmas guided tours, lasting half an hour, begin at 10.30, 11.30, 12.30 and 13.30 at the main entrance at Kongevejen 100. - The museum's Guild of Millers will be grinding corn in the watermill from Ellested, and the flour will be available on a first-come-first-served basis. - Many of the museum buildings will be decorated to show how people, rich and poor, celebrated the season of goodwill in different time periods and areas of Denmark. - At the mansion in the northern part of the museum, there'll be goose plucking, Christmas biscuit baking and snipping and gluing of Christmas decorations ready to hang on the tree. - Enjoy a bite to eat at one of the museum's Christmas cafés serving up yuletide specialities and treats. The convenience store from the 1930s will be selling tasty Christmas sweets, and a Christmas tree party will be held in the assembly room. - Watch as Christmas Billy goats, straw angels and advent wreaths are plaited, and hear carols played on the trumpet and barrel organ. Children can find presents on a special treasure hunt.