Esbjerg
Get on board the ferry and enjoy the short trip to Esbjerg, Denmark's 5th largest city. Esbjerg offers plenty of shopping opportunities, featuring the longest pedestrian street in Denmark and many sites worth seeing.
"Mennesket ved Havet"
"Man by the Ocean"
This monument, consisting of 4 very large 9 m tall persons sitting on the beach, is completed in white concrete. The creator is the Danish artist, Svend Wiig Hansen, who produced this massive piece of art right on the beach North of Esbjerg.
Musikhuset Esbjerg
Music House of Esbjerg
Designed by the world-renowned architects Jan & Jørn Utzon, Musikhuset holds a theater for the performing arts and is a prominent cultural meeting place for the people of the southern part of Jutland.
Museums
The museums in Esbjerg are exceptional.
A 'must see' visit is Esbjerg Fiskeri- og Søfartsmuseum - an internationally renowned fisheries museum and seal aquarium.
The history of fisheries and fishermen is told in the most interesting way with a life size harbor environment.
The museum also features a huge saltwater seal aquarium (feeding times are 11 AM and 2:30 PM) and a mink farm.
"Museumsfyrskibet Horns Rev"
The worlds largest preserved wooden lighthouse-ship is another interesting museum, floating in the harbor by the fishermen's wharf.
Esbjerg Museum tells the story and the history of the city of Esbjerg. It also features the largest amber collection in Denmark, showing its history of the last 10,000 years.
The items are exhibited at Esbjerg Museum but the pictures and documents are exhibited at a different facility, Byhistorisk Arkiv - Local Historical Archives. In these archives you will also find an extraordinary collection of illegal letters sent during the German occupation of Denmark in the course of the Second World War.
Bogtrykmuseet is a working museum, where all the old-fashioned printing machines are in use.
In Vandtårnet - the Water Tower, you will find changing exhibitions and a beautiful view of the harbor and the city.
Finally Esbjerg Kunstmuseum - Esbjerg Art Museum, should also be mentioned. This museum holds one of the country's best collections of recent Danish art.
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