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In Odense's concert hall, displays detail the career of the city's native son Carl Nielsen
(1865-1931), Denmark's best-known composer, and a skilled conductor and violinist. His
music includes six symphonies, several operas and numerous hymns and popular songs.
Jernbanemuseet
MUSEUM
(
;
www.jernbanemuseet.dk
; Dannebrogsgade 24; adult/child Dkr90/45;
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10am-4pm)
Clamber aboard a diverting collection of 19th-century locomotives at the Danish Railway
Museum, just behind the train station. The museum has two dozen engines and wagons,
including double-decker carriages and the Royal Saloon Car belonging to Christian IX,
fully kitted out with everything a king might need.
Den Fynske Landsby
MUSEUM
(
;
www.museum.odense.dk
;
Sejerskovvej 20; adult/child Dkr85/free;
10am-6pm
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daily Jul-Aug, 10am-5pm Tue-Sun Apr-Jun & Sep-Oct)
Wind back the clock at this delightful open-air museum, which has relocated period houses
from around Funen and created a small country village, complete with barnyard animals, a
duck pond, apple trees and flower gardens. Costumed 'peasants' tend to the geese, while
children in knickerbockers play with hoops and sticks.
The museum is in a green zone 4km south of the city centre; buses 110 and 111 (Dkr23)
run nearby. The best way to get here is by boat - from May to August, Odense Aafart
boats sail hourly from Munke Mose past the zoo to the end station at Fruens Bøge, from
where it's a 15-minute woodland walk to reach the museum.
Odense Aafart
BOAT TOUR
The riverside Munke Mose park is an attractive place for a picnic, stroll or boat trip. From
May to August Odense Aafart runs 30-minute river rides to the wooded Fruens Bøge area,
where there's a 'nature playground' full of giant wooden toadstools and centipedes. From
here, it's a 15-minute walk to Den Fynske Landsby. The boat stops at Odense Zoo en
route.
