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The Kerteminde Museums of Local History include the Johannes Larsen Museum, the Ladby Viking Ship Museum and the Kerteminde Museum at Farvergården, a museum of cultural history.
Kerteminde Museum is a museum of local history, housed in the Farvergården merchant''s house, built in 1630. This Renaissance building belonged to the Hinke family of dyers for a century. The museum contains a farmhouse room and a living room dating from c. 1850, as well as exhibitions dealing with themes such as the world of children, fishing and crafts and trades, etc.
The Ladby Viking Ship is the only surviving Viking-Age ship burial in Denmark. In around the year 925, a Viking ship was pulled up from the fjord, and a chieftain was buried in it, along with his horses, dogs and other valuables. The grave was later robbed, but the remains of the ship still lie on the spot where the find was uncovered in 1935. The museum is actually located underground, installed in a vault that was created beneath the burial mound that covers the ship.
The Johannes Larsen Museum consists partly of the artist''s home, and partly of a more recent exhibition building. Johannes Larsen''s home at Møllebakken was opened to the public in 1986, 25 years after the death of the artist. The home remains unchanged, full of furniture and other items - and of course a great many paintings on the walls.'"The Workshop'" in which Johannes and his wife Alhed each had a studio is housed in an annex, and the lovely conservatory can still be seen, filled with flowers, on the south side of the building. In addition to works by the Larsens, the museum displays works by approx. 50 artists with links to Johannes Larsen, the Kerteminde scene and the area in general
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