Aarhus City Museum – a local museum

The year 2005 was a year of change for Aarhus’s local museum. A new exhibition build-ing was inaugurated, the museum had a new and very stylish logo designed and changed its name from Aarhus Bymuseum to Bymuseet.
The new museum building is a beautiful, spa-cious, light and modern building designed by Exners Tegnestue A/S and clearly influenced by contemporary architecture with large window sections overlooking the Aarhus River. The new building is made from red brick like the mu-seum’s existing building, a former railway station building from Hammelbanen, and the two build-ings are connected by a glass corridor.

The building will house exhibitions about the history of Aarhus and the Municipality of Aarhus from Viking times until the present day with the emphasis on the past few centuries. The first part of the exhibition was ready for the opening, the story of the modern Aarhus, i.e. the period from 1919 until 2005. At the beginning of 2006, the museum completed a model of Aarhus within the ring roads as it looked in 2005. In the coming years, the museum will continue to create exhibitions which tell the story of the city and the municipality, and there will be plenty of opportunity to follow its work on the new exhi-bitions.

The town museum organises a number of changing special exhibitions each year as well as various events, including talks on cultural history, song, dancing and activities for children. The town museum also participates in numerous projects together with the city’s other cultural institutions, the business community, educational institutions and the Municipality of Aarhus.

The museum, which has access for the dis-abled, also has a museum shop, a café with a view of the river and outdoor serving in the summer. The museum also has facilities for receptions of up to 350 guests.

See our website: www.bymuseet.dk