Tåsinge Museum

About the museum

It began with master painter Povl Fredholm, who from 1957 had two older buildings dismantled on the island and rebuilt on his property in the Bregninge Bakker, opposite the church of Bregninge: the rear building of the dissolved Frederik Juel School in Eskær and a skipper's house from Vemmenæs. In 1958 he opened his private collection of farming and maritime objects from Tåsinge there as a Skipperhjem and Folkemindesamling (skipper's home and folklore collection).

In 1967 Fredholm donated his museum to the island's population. The specially founded Taasinge Museumslaug took over operations on January 1, 1968, and has since run the museum as an independent institution with volunteers, as well as the island's local archive in the village of Landet.

In the following decades the complex grew: in 1971/72 the rope-making workshop from Troense, whose ropewalk had supplied the shipyards of the skippers' town with rope, was moved to Bregninge. Volunteers built the two-story house for the folk-life collection in 1976 and 1993. A bequest from the USA finally made possible a separate music house, where since 2013 the instrument and sheet music collection of the teacher and fiddler Bent Nielsen has been displayed.

Today the museum comprises five exhibition buildings and about 18,000 square meters of the protected Bregninge Bakker with views over the South Funen Archipelago. A focus in the front building is the drama of the tightrope walker Elvira Madigan and the Swedish lieutenant Sixten Sparre, who died in 1889 in the forest Nørreskoven on Tåsinge.

Highlights

• Captain's residence from the late 19th century with original furnishings
• Exhibition on Elvira Madigan and Sixten Sparre (1889)
• Bent Nielsen's instrument and sheet music collection in the music house
• One of the few rope-making workshops in Denmark open to visitors
• Grocer's shop from 1917 in the front building
• Lookout hill Bregninge Bakker above the South Funen Archipelago

Permanent exhibitions

• Elvira Madigan og Sixten Sparre – In three rooms of the front building, the flight of the circus artist and the Swedish lieutenant in 1889 up to their deaths on Tåsinge is traced, with personal belongings and the common interpretations of the tragedy.
• Bent Nielsens musiksamling – Folk music instruments, songbooks and sheet music of a teacher and fiddler from Tåsinge, showing how music was made on the island's dance floors.
• Folkemindesamlingen – Traditional costumes, textiles and needlework, the exhibition "De 4 aldre" on baptism, confirmation, wedding and burial, as well as workshops, a school room and the history of ferry traffic before the bridge was built in 1966.

Founded

1958

Operated by

Taasinge Museumslaug (Verein, ehrenamtlich)

Admission & discounts

Payment by Visa/Dankort and MobilePay. Admission is free on the museum's birthday celebration on July 4.

Accessibility

The museum hasn’t published any information on this – please ask the museum directly.

Kids & families

• Family tours & workshops
• Hands-on stations

During the autumn holidays, children can make ropes themselves in the rope-making workshop on open days. In the folk-life collection, the exhibition "Fra børns verden" shows cradles, strollers and old toys. In summer, sheep graze on the Bregninge Bakker (dogs not allowed, feeding prohibited).

Getting there & parking

The museum is located in the village of Bregninge on Tåsinge opposite Bregninge Kirke.

Amenities & dining

• Café: not available
• Restaurant: not available
• Museum shop

Museum shop in the front building, which also sells drinks. In the pavilion (Lysthuset) with a view of the small lake and at tables and benches in the Bregninge Bakker, you may eat food you bring yourself. Member of Bike/Hike Friends for cycling and hiking tourists.

Events & venue rental

As far as we know, the museum does not rent out spaces for external events.

No room rental; for birthdays and celebrations, tours with storytelling can be booked.

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