Off the Beaten Path:Vintage Boat & Open-Air Museum

This tour will take you on a lovely cruise on the Lyngby Lake and you will also explore some of the Danish history in the Open-Air Museum. On the way, your guide will tell you about the sights and history. Once you arrive at the lake, embark on a boat to enjoy a leisurely cruise. This cruise gives you the perfect opportunity to lean back and enjoy while listening to the low throbbing of an engine from another time. After this refreshing cruise, we’ll take a short drive to the Open-Air Museum. The Open-Air Museum, north of Copenhagen, is one of the largest and oldest in the world. Spread across 86 acres of land, the museum houses more than 50 farms, mills and houses from the period of 1650-1950. Virtually every region in Denmark and the Faeroe Islands as well as the former Danish provinces of southern Sweden and northern Germany is represented, so at the Open-Air Museum you can travel the length and breadth of Denmark in a single afternoon – just a stone's throw from Copenhagen center. Visitors are invited inside a smallholder's cottage, a water mill and a country manor. All the buildings are fully furnished and equipped, and surrounded by the museum's ducks and sheep. The museum is recreating scenes from daily life by reviving old work processes and handicraft and by readings. Meet the kitchen maid, fishwife or shopkeeper and enjoy the pantomimes in the summertime. Driving back to Copenhagen we will drive along the Oeresound.