Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
The main part of the exhibit focuses on the 18th and 19th centuries. You'll
start by heading up Navnløs, then hanging a right at Vestergade (passing a row
house and a flower garden with samples for sale) to the canal. Head straight
over the bridge and hike up the cute street lined with market stalls, shops, and
a bakery until you pop out on the main square, Torvet. The building on the left
side of Torvet, the Mayor's House (from 1597), contains a museum upstairs
featuring home interiors from 1600 to 1850, including many with gorgeously
painted walls. At the top of Torvet is the Mintmaster's Mansion, the residence
of a Copenhagen noble (from 1683). Enter around back to tour the boldly col-
orful, 18th-century Baroque rooms. Under the heavy timbers of the attic is an
exhibit about the history of this recently restored building.
Continuing out the far end of Torvet on Søndergade, you enter the 20th
century. The streets and shops here evoke the year 1927, including a hardware
store and (down Havbogade) a brewery where you can often buy samples (in
the courtyard behind). Atthe endofSøndergade (onthe left) isthe Legetoj toy
museum,withtwofloorsoflonghallwayscrammedwithnostalgicplaythings.
Walking into the next zone, you come to a street scene from 1974, includ-
ing a hi-fi record shop and the Udstillinger building, which houses the Dan-
