The plaster casts
Full size, and some are now the only surviving record.
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A small university museum inside the **Aarhus University** campus, showing antiquities from the civilisations around the Mediterranean — and one of the least-visited sites in the city despite being free. The collection was built for teaching rather than display: pieces the university bought for classical archaeology students to study, later opened to the public. So the arrangement feels closer to a laboratory than an exhibition, and that is part of its appeal. On display are **Greek pottery** in black and red figure, **Roman** portrait busts and funerary monuments, **Egyptian**, **Mesopotamian** and **Cypriot** material, and coins. Its best-known holding is a set of full-size **plaster casts** of famous Greek and Roman sculptures. The idea sounds dated, but many of these casts were taken in the nineteenth century from originals that have **since been damaged or lost**, so the copies have themselves become the surviving record. Note: **the hours are very short** and tied to the academic term — check before going.
Full size, and some are now the only surviving record.
Black and red figure, with everyday and mythological scenes.
Yellow brick and sloping lawns, a sight in itself.
Victor Albecks Vej 3, Aarhus University
It is worth it combined with **the University Park** itself, not on its own. The campus is one of Denmark's best-known architectural ensembles: **yellow brick** buildings with steep tiled roofs set across sloping lawns around a small valley and lake, designed by **Kay Fisker** and colleagues from the 1930s onward, with a strikingly strict unity of materials. Walking the park is free and beautiful in any season, and the museum inside it is free too. Make the two one half-day, and check the museum's hours before you make the walk.
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