H. C. Andersen's Odense

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Go on a wondrous journey through Hans Christian Andersen’s Odense. Visit the poet’s birth- and childhood homes or the Hans Christian Andersen Museum. If you need an even bigger dose of the poet, fear not. There is lots more to see.

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Green ExperienceHans Christian Andersen House
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Hans Christian Andersen House

H.C. Andersen's House - a world you think you know - Visit the popular Hans Christian Andersen House in the historic quarter.

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Soveværelse med gammeldags slagbænk af træ, himmelseng med stribet sengebetræk og træspisesæt for to.
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H. C. Andersen's Childhood Home

From 1807 to 1819 H. C. Andersen lived in one of the three little apartments in this house with his parents. The house became a museum in 1930 and here you can experience several of his original manuscripts and diaries. One of the living rooms houses a small exhibition which shows the poet’s childhood in Odense.

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To børn fodrer en flok høns med grønt.
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Møntergården

Take a trip back in time and experience the authentic city environment from the 19th century, where Hans Christian Andersen ran around and played as a child. Feel the history in the narrow streets, on the cobblestones, in the courtyards behind the houses and in the exhibitions build by Museum Odense.

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In the Footstep of Hans Christian Andersen
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In the Footstep of Hans Christian Andersen

We invite you to take a stroll through the heart of old Odense, Hans Christian Andersen’s birthplace, where you can encounter numerous things to remind you of Denmark’s world-famous writer of fairy ta...

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Foran et træ står en skulptur af svaner og en kvinde
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Fairy tale sculptures in Odense

Watch the fairy tale figures of H. C. Andersen come to live all over Odense – in parks and in the streets and alleys you can meet 16 sculptures, all inspired by the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen.

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The Funen Village

In the Funen Village you will experience a village milieu as it could have appeared at the time when Hans Christian Andersen wrote his famous fairy tales.

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