Copenhagen Day 2

Stayed close to home today visiting the Open Air Museum and Brede industrial museum that is a 5min bus ride away. From there we went to the larger shopping area of Lyngby.

Pond/Lake at Brede - this is the one that powered the Textile Mill prior to steam engines

The water from the lake going into the inner courtyard of the mill.

one of the old textile machines

There are over 80 buildings at the Open Air Museum - all farm/ manor houses from around Denmark. They range from 16th century to late 19th century.

It is also still a productive farm - so there were pigs, sheep, geese, chickens, horses and 

goats! In addition they have quite a few vegetable gardens scattered around and a small very young orchard.

The insides of the houses varied greatly, from very poor to quite wealthy. This is a smithy.

Sleeping chambers inside a 'manor house'. 

This is the oven in the middle of a building that is a pottery making centre. It belonged to no one person, but to the town as they all supplemented their farming incomes by potting, apparently this is an area of Denmark known for its high quality pottery. Most of the buildings had thatched roofs, but this roof was brick shingles, for safety given the heat of the kilns.

As the farmers had additional sources of income the houses became more refined and larger . This house belonged to a farmer whose wife supplemented their income by teaching local girls to tat lace. This is the front room used for the lessons - the glass ball was used to magnify the candle light so that they could better see their work.

Tiles in the living room of another 'manor house'. These are hand painted with various farm animals.

We also had the chance to try our hand at spinning wool.

Jacob needed a bit of a hand - he did the spinning, I did the feeding of the wool.

All of the buildings had tools, furnishings and equipment that would have been used in the house at the time - this is a butter mould we found in the scullery/kitchen of one of the manor houses - there were 4 or 5 others with different designs.

Mosaic tiles on the wall of a building.

The whole museum covers hectares and hectares - so plenty of gardens, fields and woodland areas.