Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
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Brøndums Hotel
D1
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Finns B&B
D1
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Hotel Plesner
C2
Eating
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Jakobs Café & Bar
C2
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Pakhuset
B3
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Slagter Munch
D1
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SuperBrugsen
C1
Sights & Activities
Skagens Museum
MUSEUM
10am-5pm daily May-Aug, Tue-Sun Sep-Apr)
This wonderful gallery (undergoing major renovation and expansion from late 2014 into
2015) showcases the outstanding art that was produced in Skagen between 1870 and 1930.
Artists discovered Skagen's gorgeous light and its wind-blasted heath-and-dune land-
scape in the mid-19th century, and fixed eagerly on the romantic imagery of the area's
fishing life that had earned the people of Skagen a hard living for centuries.
Painters such as PS Krøyer and Anna and Michael Ancher followed the contemporary
fashion of painting
en plein air
(out of doors). Their work established a vivid figurative
style of painting that became known internationally as the 'Skagen School'.
PS Krøyer's work is quite incredible, particularly his efforts to 'paint the light'. He was
particularly transfixed by the 'blue hour', the transition between day and night, when the
sky and the sea seem to merge into each other in the same shade of blue.