The habitat scenes
Animals shown in reproductions of their habitats โ visual and direct for children.
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Yes โ both are inside the same campus minutes apart on foot, and their subjects complement each other: this one nature, the other the history of science and medicine with a planetarium. Together they make a logical half day with children.
Den Gamle By, the open-air museum in central Aarhus, rebuilds Danish streets from different eras and is spent outdoors โ the better choice on a clear day. The woods and beaches south of the city are close too. Keep the indoor museums for a wet day.
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Aarhus's natural history museum, inside the university campus a short way from the city centre. The collection concentrates on the nature of Denmark and northern Europe: mounted animals displayed in scenes reproducing their habitats, birds, insects and skeletons, and sections on the ice age and the formation of the Danish landscape. This is a university museum, meaning the collections are research collections that were then put on display, which gives it more precision than a science entertainment centre but makes it quieter and less interactive. It works particularly well with primary-school-age children: the habitat scenes are visual and direct and need little reading, and the museum is a size that can be finished without exhaustion. The campus itself is worth walking through: yellow brick buildings of a single unified design set among grassy hills, among the best-known works of twentieth-century Danish architecture, and free to walk.
Animals shown in reproductions of their habitats โ visual and direct for children.
Sections on the ice age and the shaping of the Danish landscape.
Yellow brick and grassy hills โ among modern Danish architecture's best-known works.
Aarhus University campus, north of the centre