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The Modern Town in The Old Town


For information regarding The Modern Town, please contact
mail@dengamleby.dk

Background
Since 2002, The Old Town has been working on recreating a town district from the Danish provincial towns. A modern town in The Old Town.

The district will be situated in continuation of the existing Old Town. In this way, it will be an expansion of the town as it might have taken place in the wake of the Industrialization. In the working-class district, visitors can experience the history of the 1900s up to 1974 narrated through lifelike street environments, shops, homes, and workshops.

Denmark's only poster museum and the only House of Memories for elderly people suffering from dementia will also be located here. The 200 million DKK project has been made possible through large donations and the first phase commences in 2008.

The area from 1927
The Old Town want to recreate a townscape as it might have looked in 1927. The district will be located in the existing part of The Old Town and will thus mark the transition to the area from 1974. To put it another way, museum visitors can experience a Danish town from about the same time as Mads Skjern came to Korsbæk in the popular Danish TV series, Matador.

The area from 1974
The second year in The Modern Town will be 1974. The district will be located in the new block which will be built over the coming years. Here, it will be possible to experience the time when Danish TV series Krøniken ends. In a way, 1974 marks the end of the financial boom which began in 1958 and ended in the 1973 oil crisis.

The buildings
The architectural goal of The Modern Town in The Old Town is to collect and exhibit a representative sample of the types of buildings which were mainly erected in the working-class districts, but also in market towns and larger villages, in the period 1870-1940.

Read more...
The Modern Town Project at Den Gamle By (PDF)

Drawing of Havnegade in The Modern Town. (PDF)