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The Museums in Rold Forest

The museums at the forest Rold Skov offers very different exiting experiences.

You can watch the historic connection between nature, culture and people, the emigration, folk music and art exhibitions with a character of their own.


You can find 3 museums in Rebild:

SPILLEMANDS- JAGT OG SKOVBRUGSMUSEET 
The Museum for fiddlers, hunting and forestry is the historical and cultural opening to the forest where forestry throughout the time is essential.
In addition, the museum is a centre of traditional folk music in northern Jutland.
Read more about the Fiddlers Museum here…

LINCOLN LOG CABIN (BLOKHUSMUSEET)
An extensive emigration – above all to the USA - was the result of the hard conditions of life in the forest territory and also from other areas in Denmark.
The history of emigration is told at the “Blokhusmuseum” – Lincoln Log Cabin.
Read more about Lincoln Log Cabin here…

THINGBÆK KALKMINER
The limestone mines in Thingbæk is a monument to previous mining with production of chalk. The work has stopped long ago, now the mines hold one of the most unique museums of art in Denmark. In the underground galleries are the original plaster models of the works of the sculptors Anders Bundgård and Bonnesens.
Read more about Thingbæk Kalkminer here...

Apart from that the following museums participate: 

BUDERUP ØDEKIRKE
The abandoned church in Buderup is situated in Lindenborg stream valley and can be dated back to the 12th century, where the nave and chancel were built. The tower and the northern chapel are added in the Reformation. The church was earlier attached to the manor Buderupholm, but December 1907 it was closed down.
Some parts of the furniture from the old church are now in the churches in Støvring and Suldrup. Others are being kept at the Historical Museum in Aalborg.

There is a very special and fascinating atmosphere around the old, abandoned church in Buderup. The church is owned by the Danish Forest and Nature Agency, “Skov- og Naturstyrelsen”, but is being maintained by the municipality of Rebild. The municipality lets out the church for different purposes, mostly of cultural character.
It is free to enter the church. Visitors are therefore asked to protect and to care for the old church and cemetery.

The key for the old Buderup church can be lent at the municipality of Rebild (tel. 99 88 99 88) or Peter Thomsen (tel. 98 37 20 23).

The following can also be organized:
Visit the mill Bælum Mølle, the house of the poacher Lars Kjær and the museum cellar in Støvring. 

BÆLUM MILL 
On a hill top quite close to the village Bælum is one of the best preserved wind mills in northern Jutland.

The history of the mill can be followed many years back.
The present mill is built around 1900 and 1965 it stopped working.
During the last years the guild “Bælum Møllelaug” has been working hard to preserve the mill and make it ready to start again.
Visit the mill and enjoy the magnificent landscape.
 
Open 01.06.-31.08 Saturdays and Sundays from 2 pm to 5 pm.
Entry fee: 10 DKK

LARS KJÆRS HOUSE
Museum for the poacher Lars Kjær.
Open 01.05.-31.08 Sundays from 2 pm to 5 pm.
Entry fee: adults 10 DKK – children accompanied by adults free.
Outside opening hours: call Rold StorKro tel. 98 37 51 00

THE MUSEUM BASEMENT IN STØVRING
Støvring Museum Society exhibits historical collections from Støvring and its surroundings in some of the rooms in the basement of the school Bavnebakkeskolen in Støvring. Here you can for example find a complete equipment from the old Free Church in Støvring – font, organ and pulpit and also an altar cloth from the church in Sørup.

A visit can be arranged, call:
Arnt Johansen tel. 98 12 59 04 or
Peter Thomsen tel. 98 37 20 23.
Tuesday, November 18 2008

Over the year the museums offer a lot of exiting activities such as concerts, folk dancing, trade and craft. 

Activity calendar
Cultural-historical days in the October Holidays


It is possible to buy interesting souvenirs in the museum shops and in the Museum for Fiddlers there is a café with soft drinks, coffee etc.

THE MUSEUMS ALSO OFFER:

The Museum for fiddlers, hunting and forestry:

A: Instructions to folk dancing (easy): DKK 600 entry excl. – or by arrangement.

B: Bring your own food to the café – you have to buy your beverages there.

Thingbæk Kalkminer


The limestone mines in Thingbæk:

A: Candles in the emigration cave: DKK 600 entry excl. – or by arrangement.

B: The whole mine lit by 3000 candles: DKK 7.000 entry excl. (only on special occasions).

C: Guiding through the mine (one hour): DKK 500 entry excl. (V.A.T. included).

D: Music, drinks, tables and so on.

E: Bring your own food. Tables are provided either outside or in the barn (by arrangement).
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