Travel Reference
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Near the top of the steps, you can enter H. C.'s
birth house,
with descrip-
tions of the people his family lived with and replicas of the type of furniture
that likely filled these humble rooms.Later on,the author was highly ashamed
of having been born in such a modest house in a very poor neighborhood—the
theme of poverty turns up frequently in his works.
Near the end of the exhibit is a recreation of H. C.'s
study
from his apart-
ment in Nyhavn, Copenhagen. You'll exit through “The Works,” a library of
Andersen's books from around the world (his tales have been translated into
