Glud Museum

Visit the exciting open-air museum

Glud Museum is an open-air museum where you can experience 350 years of village history. Here, among other things, there is a timbered house built around a square, a small fisherman’s house and smallholdings to explore. The museum tells of life in the small rural communities from the 17th century up to the 1950s.

The old farm

The many historic buildings each tell their story. Come into Rasmus Thomesøn’s farmhouse from 1662, where you can have a look in the dark living rooms where alcoves, fireplaces and long tables stood close. In the small fisherman’s house, fishing nets hang in the living rooms and the mattresses are stuffed with seaweed. In the tall transformer tower, you can experience what a revolution electricity was.

Visit the master painter’s house

The local master painter, Søren Knudsen, founded Glud Museum in 1912 and the museum also has Søren Knudsen’s home, Hildesheim, where you can go behind the museum’s history and in many ways, the unusual life of the museum founder.

Children’s Village – village life in the 1940s

At the new Children’s Village, children can step into an East Jutland village as it looked in the 1940s. Here, they are free to explore, play and discover their surroundings while experiencing history up close.

Visit the village post office, hair salon and barn, and gain an insight into everyday life in a rural community during the Second World War. The Children’s Village offers an active museum experience for the whole family, where play and cultural history go hand in hand.

The history of forgotten things

In the big exhibition hall there hides stories of children’s births, the fire service and everyday many pursuits. Here you can see mail carriages, butcher’s blocks, alderman batons and maternity pots, objects that were once an important part of society but are now almost forgotten.

Life in the village

There are plenty of exciting events at Glud Museum throughout the year.

Easter is celebrated with Easter in the Village, while heritage livestock breeds take over the museum during Animal Day (Dyrenes Dag) in spring. The harvest is brought in at Harvest Weekend in August. September brings Plant Day, the autumn holidays feature Legends and Myths, and in December, Christmas is celebrated with traditional customs at Christmas in the Village.

During the summer season, there are holiday activities for the whole family. Meet blacksmiths, woodturners and weavers as the museum’s many skilled volunteers demonstrate traditional crafts and handicrafts while sharing stories from days gone by.

Live summer activities

During the children's summer holiday, escape the busy tourist spots and head out where there's room to play and sky as far as the eye can see. Join in on traditional games like skittles and stilt walking—or take a journey back in time with fun, family-friendly activities.

Every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, you can take part in cozy family events, where kids and adults alike can dive into historical crafts or play like in the old days at the museum’s interactive Pilfingermuseum.

On Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday afternoons, skilled volunteers demonstrate traditional crafts in the museum’s working workshops. Chat with the knitting ladies, watch the blacksmith at work by the glowing forge, and see the spinning wheel in action as yarn comes to life the old-fashioned way.

Open during the summer season

Glud Museum is open from April to October. During the winter season, seasonal events will take place—for example, around Christmas.

You can find opening hours and ticket prices on this page.

Created by Destination Kystlandet. Last updated on June 11, 2026 by Louise Klint Nielsen.