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The Farm Karensminde

01.01.24 - 01.01.25

The Museum Farm Karensminde is an attraction worth visiting for the whole family - children and grandparents alike.

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The Museum Farm Karensminde

It smells with fresh air, hay, and a bit of manure. From inside the barn, you can hear the pigs grunting with joy, because the manager is bringing the food. In the meadow you can glimpse the cows munching on juicy meadow grass. The sheep will meet you bleating and the geese will hiss sourly as you approach their enclosure by the lake. The children are preoccupied with soft rabbits - and have no idea that it is the rabbit's cousin, they ate with great relish in Kaffestuen's tartlet filling last time they were here for an activity day. You can see the heavy workhorses in the meadow, and in front of the machine house, you notice the gray Massey Ferguson, which later replaced the horses in the field. The Museum Farm Karensminde is a family-friendly attraction where history comes alive, offering a unique blend of nostalgia and inspiration for the future.

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Fun activities for the whole family, which revolve around the historical development of agriculture into an industry. You are invited inside both the farmhouse and the stables.

The meadow, the moor and the plantation

The Museum Farm Karensminde exudes coziness and idyllic scenes of happy summer days, with rolling fields of grain, festivities, holidays, traditions, and well-stocked pantries. But life hasn't always been this way. Over the past 400 years, life on the farm has also included child labor, hunger, fear of witches, goblins and fires, people living in earth shelters, covered in lice.

You can feel the history in all its forms when you visit the Museum Farm Karensminde, experiencing Danish agriculture as it was practiced from the 1930s to the 1950s. During this period, agriculture underwent mechanical and operational leaps forward, which also greatly affected farming at Karensminde, where traditional farming methods were adopted. Marshall Aid after World War II, for example, made it possible to purchase a tractor, thus streamlining and industrializing agriculture.

During a tour of the Museum Farm Karensminde, you'll also experience the exhibition 'Man and Nature,' which focuses on humanity's use and exploitation of nature. The landscape around Karensminde bears clear signs of how humans have utilized nature's resources over time: the traces of meadow irrigation channels in the field; the long straight rows of fir trees in the plantation; the heath, created by the first Danes' forest burning thousands of years ago, are all signs of the interaction between humans and nature, which is a highly relevant topic today.

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The old farm in the meadow, Karensminde, owed its prosperity to the stream and the meadow. The possibility of digging an irrigation system provided abundant and lush grass for the cattle herd, which was the farm's main source of income. It was hard work! Today, one of the museum farm's fun activities is to help dig meadow irrigation ditches...
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Cultivation of the moor was initiated with little success in the 1760s, when Frederik V invited the so-called potato-Germans. The transformation from moorland to agricultural land began in the wake of the war in 1864, when Denmark lost the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenborg.
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At the farm Karensminde, the post-war trend was followed after 1864 and a plantation was created to provide shelter and wood production.