Since 1910, Køge Museum has been housed in a listed merchant''s house built in 1619. One of the oldest half-timbered houses in Denmark can be seen in the museum''s garden. The house was built in around 1500 and was moved to the museum from the Køge Torv square in 1914.
The museum''s exhibitions shed light on the cultural history of the town and surrounding areas from the Stone Age until recent times.
Artefacts from the Scandinavian Palaeolithic Age include the Strøby Egede burial site with its eight skeletons - the largest number of burials ever found in a grave from the period. Burial finds from this period are rare to begin with.
A new exhibition dealing with the wealth of prehistoric finds from the Køge area is being prepared.
The history of Køge as a medieval market town is displayed along with several large treasure finds containing silver coins dating from the seventeenth century.
The museum also displays farmhouse rooms, halls and kitchens in order to illustrate urban and rural culture.
Køge Museum possesses a large collection of local traditional costumes and utensils, including embroidered wagon-seat cushions from c. 1800 and a considerable number of Hedebo textiles with their distinctive stitching. These works can be examined up close in the museum''s study collection.
Visitors to the Vallø Castle stables can trace the history of Vallø Castle, the castle grounds, and agriculture and forestry in the diocese. In addition to a smith''s workshop - which is sometimes actually in operation - there is an archaeology exhibition dealing with the rich prehistory of the Vallø area.
Schoolrooms are available for lectures and as common rooms in both the Køge Museum and the stables.