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Brede Værk - The factory in the countryside
New major attraction just north of Copenhagen.
Opening 21st May 2009
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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.
The factory in the countryside
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 exhibi¬tions and workshops to offer the public a range of all-round experiences show¬ing the huge industrial development that has radically changed the everyday lives of the Danes over the past few centuries.
New technology gives you a personal experience
Each visitor is given an “Active Ticket” that can be used to activate the exhibits, get customized information and register the results of games and activities. For example in a dramatized section you can choose a virtual guide who will appear in various places and talk about his or her working life at the factory. You can follow the weaver, the mill girl and the general manager.
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 (how many people today can imagine a life without electric light?) and see the inventors’ ideas – both the hits and the misses. 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 produce goods on the assembly line and follow the world prices. If the collaboration works in the small plant 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.
Experiences for a whole day
At Brede Værk there are enough experiences for a whole day at the factory in a unique cultural landscape. If you really want to make a gastronomical feast of it you may be tempted by the Brede ‘Dining House’ with its romantic view of the lake and its French cuisine.
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.
Further information
About the exhibition: Head Curator Annette Vasström, +45 33 47 34 17,
About photos: PR and Marketing Coordinator Jesper T. Møller,+45 33 47 30 06,
The history of Brede Værk
Along the millstream Mølleåen there have been watermills since the Middle Ages. Over time they have helped to process copper, grain, gunpowder etc. From 1832 until it was closed down in 1956 textiles were produced at Brede Værk. The unique historic industrial plant Brede Værk gives you an impression of a tightly-knit factory community with production buildings, workers’ and master-craftsmen’s homes, the factory-owner’s country home, an eating house, a day nursery for the children, a plant nursery and park. Today the buildings house the museum, stores and the National Museum’s Conservation Department.
Active Ticket
With the Active Ticket you can have your very own experience of the museum. The ticket can be used to activate exhibits, to get customized information and to register the results of games and activities. Visitors will be able to set up a profile that makes it possible to go into more detail with the material, either at the museum or back home.
Brede Værk, permanent exhibition
I.C. Modewegsvej, 2800 Kongens Lyngby
Tel. +45 33 13 44 11
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
www.natmus.dk
NB! Free admission
Bus: 194. S-train to Jægersborg, then local train to Brede
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