Visit Rudersdal Museums north of Copenhagen
At Rudersdal Museum's exhibitions, tours and lectures, you can experience the region's history from ancient times to the present, from wooded farmland to a green housing municipality.
Visit The Vedbæk Finds at Gl. Holtegaard where you can experience unique finds from Danish prehistory. Vedbaek 'The swan's wing burial' is the most famous of the burials, containing a young woman, who may have died in childbirth, and a premature baby.
Mothsgården in Søllerød has changing exhibitions which shed light on Rudersdal Municipality's history from both a local and international perspective. Mothsgården itself was, at the end of the 17th century, the luxury property of privy councilor to the King and linguist Matthias Moth.
MOTHSGÅRDEN
The house of the King's councilor
Mothsgården itself was, at the end of the 17th century, the luxury property of councilor to the King and linguist Matthias Moth. Several original elements have been preserved in the farm's main building. Mothsgården is located between the church and the inn in Søllerød and is a good starting point for a trip in Kirkeskoven (the forest) or along the Søllerød lake.
Shop and garden
In Mothsgården's museum shop, you can buy coffee and ice cream, which can be enjoyed either in the museum's garden or in the kitchen, which has been restored to its appearance in 1917.
How to get to Mothsgården
Take the S train “Holte og Hillerød” from Nørreport, central Copenhagen (approx. 25 min.).
Train stop: Holte St.
The bus 195 to Vedbæk St. is waiting just outside the station (10 minutes)
Bus stop: Søllerød Kro
Walk approx. 3 min. to Mothsgården
THE VEDBÆK FINDS
Travel 7.000 years back in time
At the museum Vedbækfundene you can experience unique finds from Danish prehistory. In our main exhibition a reconstruction of the life in the Stone Age Denmark, containing both graves and lifelike dioramas, will bring you back in time. The Special Exhibitions gives you the opportunity of meeting Jacob – a bog skeleton from the Iron Age, admiring beautiful neckpieces from the Bronze Age and much more.
The Vedbæk finds – A 7000 year old hunting culture
In the permanent exhibition you can see unique graves and stone implements from the time during the Stone Age, where Hunter-Gatherers settled the Vedbæk area here in Zeeland. The temperature was at the time 2-3°C higher than it is today when a fjord was formed in the present Vedbæk Maglemose. It was around this fjord people settled and where archaeologists in the 1970s and 1980s found tools of stone and bone from hunted game. These finds have given an insight into, not only how the hunter and food-gatherers lived, but also in how they died.
A young woman and child
A young woman from Vedbaek, Denmark, buried with her newborn child who had been placed on the wing of a swan, 4000 BC.
Vedbaek 'The swan's wing burial' Tomb 8 is the most famous of the burials, containing a young woman, who may have died in childbirth, and a premature baby.
The symbolism of the baby on the swan wing has been much debated with suggestions including purity and a waterfowl's ability to transcend water, land, and air.
Indeed, both bodies were cared for in death (the disordered state of the mother's ribs suggests that she may have been resting on an organic "pillow"), suggesting the belief that the spirit remained with the body.
Tours and shop
The Vedbæk finds offer tours in English for groups of all ages. On a tour you will achieve knowledge about the climate, nature, tools, burial customs, and life conditions in the Danish Stone Age 7000 years ago. A guided tour takes about one hour and is easily combined with a visit in the neighbouring Restaurant Spiseriet , the artexhibition Gl. Holtegaard, or perhaps at nice walk in Thurah’s Baroque Garden behind the exhibtion. If you want to book a guided tour, weekdays or weekends just give us a call.
Our shop has a collection of different souvenirs, rabbit-furs and t-shirts. You can also buy postcards, posters and different kinds of literature about the archaeological and historical periods. Please note - you cannot pay with foreign creditcards - please pay in cash in DKK.
How to get to the Vedbæk Finds
Take the bus 150S from Nørreport, central Copenhagen (approx. 25 min.).
Bus stop: Øverødvej
Walk approx. 10 min. to Gl. Holtegaard /The Vedbæk Finds
