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Aarhus - Den Gamle By
Visited June 3, 1974
Village of normal world houses in a recreation of a Late Renaissance Danish Market Town. (See Denmark)
Many assembled room fragments, very good but a bit artificial as no natural museum type setting because on the interior there are many room settings.
Moesgaard
Archaeological museum housed in former outbuilding of a manor. Home of Dept. of Archaeology & V. of Aarhus.
Very open building - typically a good organization.
Some contemporary archaeol - Afghanstan & Eskimos.
Reconstructed house, photomural of setting.
The rest is a period typified racing, Denmark's prehistoric Culture. Old stone time, Iron Age from etc.
Underground both enclosed by a long leading into the photo murals.
Grabrulle man so good at site and excavations.
A very well done up cartoon flow of cleanup - Frandsen showing large photomural of site, part of the digging process, mixed with real display of objects.
Objects Good display of damage from finding process.