Danmarks Forsorgsmuseum - The Danish Welfare Museum

Denmark's welfare museum from the past for the poorest people! A must see in Svendborg.

Visited Svendborg last week of July 2020 and came to see the museum with my 12 year old daughter and I was surprised how big the welfare museum was. This is great place to experienced to discover how ...

Great museum to understand treatment of poor

The wellfare museum is a great experience to discover how the welfare state Denmark treated the poorest up until 1974. It gives a glmipse of an understanding of how life must have been for the underpr...

Underwhelming

I found the site rather underwhelming with information boards that could easily be read and/or found anywhere. There was no real sense of the institution's routines, and apart from a board with some h...

A strong story from our own time - believe or not - here is the proof!

If you are a tourist in Svendborg, you must not leave the town without having paid a visit to Forsorgsmuseet/The Welfare Museum. As late as 45 years ago it was inhabited by old and poor people, who to...

Das Armenhaus mit einer weitreichenden Geschichte

Leider sind viele Geschichten nur auf Dänisch, Deutsch findet man gar nicht. Einige auch auf Englisch, aber leider nicht alles! Die Innenräume sind sehr hübsch gestaltet. Es war eine wunderschöne alte...