Press release
March 2009

Industrial museum Brede Værk opens its doors

A new museum, Brede Værk, opens its doors on 21 May. It shows the huge industrial development that has radically changed the everyday lives of the Danes over the past few centuries.

Where can the family go if there has to be something both for the little engineer and for the playful of all ages? The new museum Brede Værk is an obvious possibility: see old machinery, hear how Denmark became an industrial country - from the first watermills to LEGO. Allow yourself to be shown around by your own virtual guide and join in the work on the assembly line! And it's all free.

In May 2009, at Denmark's biggest protected industrial plant, Brede Værk, the National Museum will be opening the doors of a brand new museum with exhibi­tions and workshops to offer the public a range of all-round experiences show­ing the huge industrial development that has radically changed the everyday lives of the Danes over the past few centuries.

With Mother at the factory

The museum is divided up into three very different new experience sections. The first is an exhibition which uses objects, sounds, light and film among other things to describe the everyday history of ordinary Danes on their way towards modern society, the importance of the industrial products for everyday life and see the inventors' ideas. And finally the exhibition dares to take a stab at what the future will be like.

In the second part you quite literally go with Mother to the factory! For this is where you visit one of the biggest women's workplaces of the nineteenth century, the cloth mill with huge machines and the related dye-works and management office.

Make the steam engine work!

In the third part of the museum, "the Engine Room", the whole family can work together to shovel "coal" to create energy, produce goods on the assembly line and finally try to manage the sales of clothing as well as possible. If the collaboration works in the small textile plant the reward is that the little steam engine starts up! If you have established a profile with the Active Ticket it is possible to go into more detail with themes and people when you get home.

In connection with the exhibition there will be a special micro-website where you can prepare yourself for the experience of the museum or digest impressions and images when you get home.

Find the museum:
I.C. Modewegsvej
2800 Kongens Lyngby
Tel.: +45 33 13 44 11

Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. from 21st May until 18th October 2009. After which the museum will be open from Easter up to and including the school autumn holidays. See more here.   

Further information:
Head Curator Annette Vasström
Tel.: +45 33 47 34 17
E-Mail: ava@natmus.dk

For high res. photos:
PR and Marketing Coordinator Jesper T. Møller
Tel.: +45 33 47 30 06
E-Mail: jtm@natmus.dk