The Farm Karensminde
Quick introduction
The Museum Farm Karensminde
It smells with fresh air, hay, and a bit of manure. From inside the barn, you can hear the pigs grunting with joy, because the manager is bringing the food. In the meadow you can glimpse the cows munching on juicy meadow grass. The sheep will meet you bleating and the geese will hiss sourly as you approach their enclosure by the lake. The children are preoccupied with soft rabbits - and have no idea that it is the rabbit's cousin, they ate with great relish in Kaffestuen's tartlet filling last time they were here for an activity day. You can see the heavy workhorses in the meadow, and in front of the machine house, you notice the gray Massey Ferguson, which later replaced the horses in the field. The Museum Farm Karensminde is a tribute to history and a starting point for the future.
The meadow, the moor and the plantation
The Museum Farm Karensminde exudes coziness and idyllic scenes of happy summer days, with rolling fields of grain, festivities, holidays, traditions, and well-stocked pantries. But life hasn't always been this way. Over the past 400 years, life on the farm has also included child labor, hunger, fear of witches, goblins and fires, people living in earth shelters, covered in lice.
You can feel the history in all its forms when you visit the Museum Farm Karensminde, experiencing Danish agriculture as it was practiced from the 1930s to the 1950s. During this period, agriculture underwent mechanical and operational leaps forward, which also greatly affected farming at Karensminde, where traditional farming methods were adopted. Marshall Aid after World War II, for example, made it possible to purchase a tractor, thus streamlining and industrializing agriculture.
During a tour of the Museum Farm Karensminde, you'll also experience the exhibition 'Man and Nature,' which focuses on humanity's use and exploitation of nature. The landscape around Karensminde bears clear signs of how humans have utilized nature's resources over time: the traces of meadow irrigation channels in the field; the long straight rows of fir trees in the plantation; the heath, created by the first Danes' forest burning thousands of years ago, are all signs of the interaction between humans and nature, which is a highly relevant topic today.
