Denmark
Central Jutland
Aarhus Municipality

The Old Town

Den Gamle By is an open-air town museum located in the , in central , . In 1914, the museum opened as the Denmark's first open-air museum of its kind, concentrating on town culture rather than village culture, and to this day it remains one of just a few top rated Danish museums outside , serving more than 400,000 visitors pr. year.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: open-air town museum in Aarhus, Denmark
  • Also known as: “Den Gamle By”, “The Old Town Museum”, and “The Old Town, Aarhus”
  • Wheelchair access: limited

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Lille Torv and Legetøjsmuseet.

Square
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is a square.

Museum
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is a museum.

Museum
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The Danish: Det Danske Plakatmuseum in , is a museum dedicated to the history of poster art. The museum is situated in the open air museum The Old Town in the Town Center neighbourhood in central Aarhus. is situated 110 metres southeast of The Old Town.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Midtbyen and Latin Quarter.

Neighborhood
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, also known as Aarhus Center or City, is the inner part of . is part of district Aarhus C, mainly with postal code 8000, together with Vesterbro, Trøjborg and and has a population of around 90000.

Neighborhood
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The in is the oldest part of the city and is itself part of the inner city. The quarter comprise the streets of Badstuegade, Klostergade, Volden, Studsgade, Borggade, Rosensgade, Mejlgade and Graven, with Pustervig Torv as the main square.

Neighborhood
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is a small neighborhood in the city of , home to some 3,000 residents. The neighborhood is part of the Aarhus C district and borders the neighborhoods of Indre By south and west, in the east and Trøjborg north.

The Old Town

Latitude
56.15895° or 56° 9′ 32″ north
Longitude
10.19182° or 10° 11′ 31″ east
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
Inception
1914
Open location code
9F8G555R+HP
Open­Street­Map ID
way 143766187
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­limited
Geo­Names ID
6940233
Wiki­data ID
Q1186756
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Swedish—“The Old Town” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Den Gamle By (Århus)”
  • Basque: “Den Gamle By”
  • Catalan: “Den Gamle By”
  • Chinese: “Den Gamle By”
  • Chinese: “奧胡斯舊城”
  • Croatian: “Den Gamle By”
  • Czech: “Den Gamle By”
  • Danish: “Danmarks Købstadmuseum”
  • Danish: “Den Gamle By”
  • Dutch: “Den Gamle By”
  • Esperanto: “Den Gamle By”
  • Finnish: “Den Gamle By”
  • French: “Den Gamle By”
  • German: “Den Gamle By”
  • Hungarian: “Den Gamle By”
  • Icelandic: “Den Gamle By”
  • Italian: “Den Gamle By”
  • Japanese: “オーフス旧市街”
  • Japanese: “デン・ガムレ・ビュー”
  • Japanese: “デン・ガムレ・ビュ国立野外民俗博物館”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den gamle by”
  • Norwegian: “Den Gamle By”
  • Persian: “Den Gamle By”
  • Polish: “Den Gamle By”
  • Portuguese: “Den gamle by”
  • Portuguese: “Den Gamle By”
  • Romanian: “Den Gamle By”
  • Russian: “Старый город в Орхусе (музей)”
  • Russian: “Старый город в Орхусе”
  • Serbian: “Den Gamle By”
  • Slovenian: “Den Gamle By”
  • Spanish: “Den Gamle By”
  • Swedish: “Den Gamle By”

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