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Day trips

Are you planning a day trip? On this page you can find inspiration and get ideas for what an exciting day trip for the whole family can offer.

Kaj Munks Præstegård
photo: Levende Historie

Below you will find a list of inspiration, and by clicking on "map", it is easy to get an overview of which activities there is close to you.

Iskunsten - Ice Art
photo: VisitNordvestkysten, Lemvig

Iskunsten - Ice Art

Ice sculptures | Attraction | The ice art Thyborøn | Iskunsten

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Fiskeri og Søfart Esbjerg
photo: Fiskeri- og Søfartsmuseet

Fisheries and Maritime Museum - Denmark's museum of the Sea

Fisheries and Maritime Museum - Denmark's museum of the sea. Get stories about life in and with the sea and meet the seals and fish from the sea.

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HEART - Herning Museum of Contemporary Art
photo: Iwan Baan© HEART

HEART - Herning Museum of Contemporary Art

Visit HEART - Herning museum of Contemporary Art and experience an artistic universe in a unique setting. The museum is internationally recognized and locally valued with the aim of exhibiting, disseminating, preserving and collecting contemporary art.

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Facade to Blå Kors thrift shop in Esbjerg
photo: Blå Kors Genbrug

Blå Kors thrift shop Esbjerg

At Blå Kors thrift shop in Esbjerg has a large selection of recycled items for the whole family.

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Vadehavscentret
photo: YDE Media

Wadden Sea Centre - The Gate to UNESCO World Heritage

The Wadden Sea Centre is located right by the Wadden Sea, which is Denmark's largest, flattest and wettest National Park.
It is a unique natural area in Denmark, which was named a National Park in 2010.

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Strandingsmuseum St. George
photo: VisitNordvestkysten, Flying October

Strandingsmuseum St. George

At the Strandingsmuseum St. George you can experience and hear about the many ships, crews and estates that ran aground and drifted onto the dangerous west coast of Jutland. Get close to disaster when the English liner HMS Defense and HMS St. George sank here in 1811. Dive into the stranding stories, and live with how the violent events affected the coastal population.

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The ship on Ribe's Vikings
photo: Museet Ribes Vikinger

Museet Ribes Vikinger

Revealing Ribe’s history from the Viking period and Middle Ages to the year 1700 in the very spot where the very first town in the Nordic region was founded in around the year 700 A.D.

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Skull in the exhibition | Hex Museum | By the Wadden Sea
photo: Gitte Lindeborg© Sydvestjyske Museer

HEX! Museum of Witch Hunt in Ribe

HEX! this new museum in Ribe tells the story of witch-hunting in Denmark and Europe in the 1500s and 1600s.

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Model of Ribe Cathedral
photo: Ribe Domkirke

Ribe Cathedral Museum

The building of Ribe Cathedral and the religious life before and after the Reformation.

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Big picture at Jacob A. Riis Museum
photo: Sydvestjyske Museer

Jacob A. Riis Museum in Ribe

The story of Jacob A. Riis is the story of almost hitting rock bottom in the worst of New York’s neighbourhoods, and the story of how toil, the will to create a better society and belief in himself turned the boy from Ribe into what the President called “the ideal American”.

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Occupied - Esbjerg Museum
photo: Red Star© Sydvestjyske Museer

Esbjerg Museum - the city's history from 1900-1950

Esbjerg Museum - shows Esbjerg in the 1930's and during the 2. World War

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Nørre Vosborg Manor
photo: Herregården Nørre Vosborg

Nørre Vosborg Manor

Cultural history | Nørre Vosborg | Manor house at Holstebro | Hotel | Restaurant

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Hjerl Hede
photo: VisitNordvestkysten, Holstebro

Open Air Museum Hjerl Hede

Visit the Open Air Museum Hjerl Hede and experience a part of the Danish heritage where you travel back in time and experience the daily life of the country 150 years ago...

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Jyllands Park Zoo
photo: Jyllands Park Zoo

Jyllands Park Zoo

Jylland Park Zoo has existed sicne 1969 and is a popular excursion destination and probably Denmark's coziest Zoo where you can get close to the animals.

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Baboon City
photo: VisitHerning

Baboon City

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GIVSKUD ZOO
photo: Givskud ZOO

GIVSKUD ZOO

GIVSKUD ZOO has plenty of room for both animals and guests, making it easy to enjoy a great day.

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Loch Nees Football Golf
photo: Loch Nees Fodboldgolf

Loch Nees Football Golf

Take the whole family under your arm and take them to Loch Nees Football Golf. Here is a beautiful 18-hole football golf course, so you can once and for all find out who the family's most talented football player is.

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