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14. February 2025
The fuss about breasts
The Cultural Heritage Association of Nykøbing F. invites you to a lecture on March 9th at the Theatre in Nykøbing F.
Historically, women's breasts have been the subject of outrage, of groping, of commercial interests, of negative comments, of admiration – and condemnation. In recent years, in particular, there has been an increasing focus on women's opportunities to look as they want, to assert their sexuality and the right to their own bodies (and their own breasts).
Why do breasts arouse such great interest? Today's speaker, Mette Byriel-Thygesen, ethnologist and curator at the National Museum, has explored this question.
Photo: Afternoon speaker Mette Byriel-Thygesen. Photographer: Mads Joakim Rimer Rasmussen
13. February 2025
Calling all superheroes, princesses and dragons!!!
On Sunday, March 2, Maribo Cathedral and the open-air museum De Gamle Huse in Maribo will hold a joint Shrove Tuesday event.
It has become a tradition that De Gamle Huse joins forces with Pabst Bakery in Maribo and Bog & Ide – Legekæden in Maribo to invite all happy children to a free Shrove Tuesday event at the open-air museum in Maribo. But this year something new is happening. Another partner has joined the fold, namely Maribo Cathedral.
We have been happy to form the framework for the Shrove Tuesday event and greatly appreciate that this year there are more people who want to be a part of it.
Photo: Museum Lolland-Falster.
30 January 2025
Museum Obscurum expands its opening hours
From week 6 you can visit Museum Obscurum late on Thursdays.
Museum Lolland-Falster has decided to extend the opening hours of Museum Obscurum from week 6 until the end of June. Every Thursday you can visit the museum in Nykøbing F. until 18.00:XNUMX p.m.
This extension of Museum Obscurum's opening hours may mean that citizens who cannot visit the museum during the current opening hours will now have a real opportunity to visit their local museum.
Photo: Museum Lolland-Falster.
29 January 2025
New special exhibition at Museum Obscurum opens in week 7
1800th-century explorers occupy Museum Obscurum
During the winter break, a brand new special exhibition opens at Museum Obscurum with stories about 1800th-century explorers. In Cornelius's surviving records, we have found his seven favorite discoveries and explorers, and they form the framework and narrative of the exhibition.
Cornelius disappeared into the explorers’ stories and created meticulous dioramas of distant destinations he only knew from travelogues. When guests visited him, they could “travel” through these small worlds and immortalize the moment with a photograph. We have recreated some of these dioramas in connection with the special exhibition, and like any modern globetrotter, you can of course take a selfie and let your imagination take you on an adventure.
Photos: Museum Lolland-Falster
29 January 2025
New research into Stone Age fishing changes understanding of the introduction of agriculture
The development of farmers in Denmark was slower than previously thought. New research into Stone Age fishing in an ancient fjord near Rødbyhavn shows that it was a complex development.
New research into fish traps in Syltholm Fjord near Rødbyhavn, which contains one of Europe's largest concentrations of investigated fish traps, shows that the transition from hunter-gatherer to agriculturist was more gradual. Agriculture did not come as an overnight revolution. Instead, it was a long and complex process, in which nature's pantry played a major role in the security of supply for more than 1000 years.
Photos 1 and 2: Archaeologists excavate a fishing facility in Syltholm Fjord. Photo Museum Lolland-Falster.
Photo 3 -4: Footprints left by Stone Age fishermen 5.500 – 4.500 years ago. Photo Museum Lolland-Falster.
Photo 5: Excavation Syltholm Fjord. Photo Museum Lolland-Falster.