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Den Gamle By, the Glossary

Den Gamle By (lit. "The Old Town") is an open-air town museum located in the Aarhus Botanical Gardens, in central Aarhus, Denmark.^[1]

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1914 establishments in Denmark
Museums established in 1914
Museums in Aarhus
Museums in the Central Denmark Region
Open-air museums in Denmark
Relocated buildings and structures in Denmark
Tourist attractions in Aarhus

Aalborg

Aalborg or Ålborg is Denmark's fourth largest urban settlement (behind Copenhagen, Aarhus, and Odense) with a population of 119,862 (1 July 2022) in the town proper and an urban population of 143,598 (1 July 2022).

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Aarhus

Aarhus (officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus Municipality.

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Aarhus Botanical Gardens

Aarhus Botanical Gardens is a botanical garden in Aarhus, Denmark. Den Gamle By and Aarhus Botanical Gardens are museums in Aarhus and Tourist attractions in Aarhus.

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Aarhus City Hall

Aarhus City Hall (Aarhus Rådhus) is the city hall of Aarhus, Denmark.

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Anemone

Anemone is a genus of flowering plants in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae.

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Anise

Anise (Pimpinella anisum), also called aniseed or rarely anix, is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae native to the eastern Mediterranean region and Southwest Asia.

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Aquilegia

Aquilegia (common names: granny's bonnet, columbine) is a genus of about 130 species of perennial plants that are found in meadows, woodlands, and at higher elevations throughout the Northern Hemisphere, known for the spurred petalsPuzey, J.R., Gerbode, S.J., Hodges, S.A., Kramer, E.M., Mahadevan, L.

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Architecture

Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction.

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Atropa belladonna

Atropa belladonna, commonly known as belladonna or deadly nightshade, is a toxic perennial herbaceous plant in the nightshade family Solanaceae, which also includes tomatoes, potatoes and aubergine (eggplant).

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Baroque

The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.

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Baroque garden

The Baroque garden was a style of garden based upon symmetry and the principle of imposing order on nature.

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Bergen

Bergen, historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway.

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Bernstorff Palace

Bernstorff Palace (Bernstorff Slot) in Gentofte, Copenhagen, Denmark, was built in the middle of the 18th century for Foreign Minister Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff.

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Blacksmith

A blacksmith is a metalsmith who creates objects primarily from wrought iron or steel, but sometimes from other metals, by forging the metal, using tools to hammer, bend, and cut (cf. tinsmith).

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Consolida

Consolida is a genus of about 40 species of annual flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae, native to western Europe, the Mediterranean and Asia.

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Copenhagen

Copenhagen (København) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the urban area.

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Customs

Customs is an authority or agency in a country responsible for collecting tariffs and for controlling the flow of goods, including animals, transports, personal effects, and hazardous items, into and out of a country.

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Datura stramonium

Datura stramonium, known by the common names thornapple, jimsonweed (jimson weed), or devil's trumpet, is a poisonous flowering plant in the Daturae tribe of the nightshade family Solanaceae.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.

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Dianthus

Dianthus is a genus of about 340 species of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae, native mainly to Europe and Asia, with a few species in north Africa and in southern Africa, and one species (D. repens) in arctic North America.

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Diner

A diner is a type of restaurant found across the United States and Canada, as well as parts of Western Europe.

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Embroidery

Embroidery is the art of decorating fabric or other materials using a needle to stitch thread or yarn.

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Finland

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.

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Frederiksgade, Aarhus

Frederiksgade (lit. "Frederik's Street") is a street in the Indre By district in Aarhus, Denmark which runs north to south from Åboulevarden to Frederiks Allé.

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Frilandsmuseet

Frilandsmuseet (Open Air Museum) is an open-air museum on the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. Den Gamle By and Frilandsmuseet are open-air museums in Denmark and Relocated buildings and structures in Denmark.

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Fritillaria meleagris

Fritillaria meleagris is a Eurasian species of flowering plant in the lily family Liliaceae.

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Functionalism (architecture)

In architecture, functionalism is the principle that buildings should be designed based solely on their purpose and function.

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Georg Jensen

Georg Arthur Jensen (31 August 1866 in Rådvad – 2 October 1935 in Copenhagen) was a Danish silversmith and founder of Georg Jensen A/S (also known as Georg Jensen Sølvsmedie).

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Grocery store

A grocery store (AE), grocery shop (BE) or simply grocery is a foodservice retail store that primarily retails a general range of food products, which may be fresh or packaged.

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Henning Koppel

Henning Koppel (8 May 1918 – 27 June 1981) was a Danish artist and designer.

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Hourglass

An hourglass (or sandglass, sand timer, or sand clock) is a device used to measure the passage of time.

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Humulus lupulus

Humulus lupulus, the common hop or hops, is a species of flowering plant in the hemp family Cannabaceae, native to West Asia, Europe and North America.

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Hyoscyamus niger

Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger, also black henbane and stinking nightshade) is a poisonous plant belonging to tribe Hyoscyameae of the nightshade family Solanaceae.

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Immervad

Immervad, previously Emmervad, is a pedestrian street in Aarhus, Denmark, which runs north to south from Lille Torv to Åboulevarden and Frederiksgade.

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Interior design

Interior design is the art and science of enhancing the interior of a building to achieve a healthier and more aesthetically pleasing environment for the people using the space.

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Kitchen garden

The traditional kitchen garden, vegetable garden, also known as a potager (from the French jardin potager) or in Scotland a kailyaird, is a space separate from the rest of the residential garden – the ornamental plants and lawn areas.

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Lavandula

Lavandula (common name lavender) is a genus of 47 known species of perennial flowering plants in the mints family, Lamiaceae.

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Leaf

A leaf (leaves) is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis.

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Lemvig

Lemvig is a market town located on the Limfjord in North Jutland, Denmark.

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LGB (trains)

LGB stands for Lehmann Gross Bahn - the "Lehmann Big Train" in German.

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Lilium

Lilium is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants growing from bulbs, all with large and often prominent flowers.

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Lonicera periclymenum, common names honeysuckle, common honeysuckle, European honeysuckle, or woodbine, is a species of flowering plant in the family Caprifoliaceae native to much of Europe, North Africa, Turkey and the Caucasus.

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Märklin

Gebr.

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Merchant

A merchant is a person who trades in commodities produced by other people, especially one who trades with foreign countries.

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Mistletoe

Mistletoe is the common name for obligate hemiparasitic plants in the order Santalales.

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Myosotis

Myosotis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae.

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National Museum of Denmark

The National Museum of Denmark (Nationalmuseet) in Copenhagen is Denmark's largest museum of cultural history, comprising the histories of Danish and foreign cultures, alike.

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Næstved

Næstved is a town in the municipality of the same name, located in the southern part of the island of Zealand in Denmark.

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Open-air museum

An open-air museum is a museum that exhibits collections of buildings and artifacts outdoors.

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Pedagogy

Pedagogy, most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political, and psychological development of learners.

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Pelargonium

Pelargonium is a genus of flowering plants that includes about 280 species of perennials, succulents, and shrubs, commonly called geraniums, pelargoniums, or storksbills.

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Peter Holm (museum director)

Peter Holm (14 May 1873 – 1 February 1950) was a Danish museum director and curator.

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Philosophy

Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.

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Physician

A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.

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Post office

A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery.

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Renaissance architecture

Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture.

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Rose

A rose is either a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus Rosa, in the family Rosaceae, or the flower it bears.

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Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a subregion of Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples.

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School

A school is both the educational institution and building designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers.

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Stove

A stove or range is a device that generates heat inside or on top of the device, for local heating or cooking.

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Sundial

A sundial is a horological device that tells the time of day (referred to as civil time in modern usage) when direct sunlight shines by the apparent position of the Sun in the sky.

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Syringa vulgaris

Syringa vulgaris, the lilac or common lilac, is a species of flowering plant in the olive family Oleaceae, native to the Balkan Peninsula, where it grows on rocky hills.

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Teacher

A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching.

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The Funen Village

The Funen Village (Den Fynske Landsby) is an open-air museum located in the neighborhood of Fruens Bøge in Odense, Denmark. Den Gamle By and the Funen Village are open-air museums in Denmark.

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Theatre

Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.

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Timber framing

Timber framing and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs.

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Translation

Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text.

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Tulip

Tulips are spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes in the Tulipa genus.

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Turku

Turku (Åbo) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Southwest Finland.

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Valeriana rubra

Valeriana rubra (synonym Centranthus ruber), the red valerian, spur valerian, kiss-me-quick, fox's brush, devil's beard or Jupiter's beard, is a popular garden plant grown for its ornamental flowers.

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Vestergade, Aarhus

Vestergade (lit: Westward-street) is a street in Aarhus, Denmark, which runs east to west from the central square of Store Torv to the city park of Åparken at Carl Blochs Gade, intersecting the main streets of Grønnegade and Vester Allé along its course.

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Workshop

Beginning with the Industrial Revolution era, a workshop may be a room, rooms or building which provides both the area and tools (or machinery) that may be required for the manufacture or repair of manufactured goods.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den_Gamle_By

Also known as Den Gamle By, Aarhus, Old Town Museum, Aarhus, The Old Town, The Old Town, Aarhus.

, Pedagogy, Pelargonium, Peter Holm (museum director), Philosophy, Physician, Post office, Renaissance, Renaissance architecture, Rose, Scandinavia, School, Stove, Sundial, Syringa vulgaris, Teacher, The Funen Village, Theatre, Timber framing, Translation, Tulip, Turku, Valeriana rubra, Vestergade, Aarhus, Workshop.

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See also

1914 establishments in Denmark

Museums established in 1914

Museums in Aarhus

Museums in the Central Denmark Region

Open-air museums in Denmark

Relocated buildings and structures in Denmark

Tourist attractions in Aarhus

References