Sights in Svendborg
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Naturama
Naturama, a natural history museum, is in an impressive spiral building with displays of stuffed animals and skeletons on three levels – whale bones dominate the basement, Scandinavian mammals lurk on the middle floor, while birds from the tiny Pallas’ leaf warbler to the golden eagle float on a balcony above it all. There’s state-of-the-art sound and lighting, and regular film shows and a good hands-on section where you can stroke a mole, draw a wolf or dress up in skins.
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Anne Hvides Gård
The oldest house in Svendborg, dating from 1560, is Anne Hvides Gård, a bumblebee-coloured structure that leans tipsily to one side. Its basic collection of local archaeological finds is labelled in Danish, but pop in if you’re passing to see the strangest item: a 14th-century wooden statue of the four-faced god Svantevit.
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Forsorgsmuseet Viebæltegård
Forsorgsmuseet Viebæltegård is Denmark’s only poorhouse and workhouse museum. It’s unusual –we’d certainly never seen a lice box before – and on Wednesday in high summer you can even sample poorhouse food. About a third of the information is in English.
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