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The Museum
on Jens Winthers Vej
Archaeological exhibition displaying finds from Langeland, Strynø and Ærø.
A thrall tied up and decapitated before being buried with his master. One of the earliest documented uses of a dental drill – performed 3000 years ago using a drill with a flint tip (a find from Hulbjerg Passage Grave). The skull of a man from the same period living with a big hole in his cranium, the likely result of a blow to the head …
These unique finds made on Langeland, dating from the Viking Age and the Neolithic Age are only small parts of the extensive archaeological collection on permanent display on Langelands Museums’ exhibition on Jens Winthers Vej 12 in Rudkøbing. The exhibition also contains finds from flooded settlements examined by marine archaeologists from Arkæologi Sydfyn.
In addition, the museum on Jens Winthers Vej also has a variety of permanent and temporary exhibitions focusing on more recent periods.
Click to see the Calendar for information on current temporary exhibitions on Jens Winthers Vej.
Jens Winther and Langelands Museum
The museum was founded and built from the ground by merchant Jens Winther, born in Rudkøbing in 1863. Possessing from early on a great interest in things ancient, he soon began collecting.
Fortunately, Jens Winther also possessed a great gift for the merchant business, providing him with the means necessary to found and build a museum in 1905.
In the decades to come, Jens Winther headed several excavations on Langeland. The finds were added to the museum’s collection, earning the museum a reputation at home as well as abroad.
Jens Winther took an active part in the museum’s work until his death in 1955.
“The Yellow Building”
Drawn by architect P. Baumann, the yellow building was constructed in a style typical of its time. Originally, the museum consisted only of the one building facing the road. But as the archaeological collection rapidly grew in size, a new building was added, identical and connected to the first by a smaller building. And so the museum’s ground floor level got its characteristic H-shape.
Contact
Langelands Museum
Jens Winthers Vej 12
5900 Rudkøbing
Phone: +45 63 51 63 00
NB! Limited access for wheel chair users and people with a walking disability.
Click to see the Calendar for information on current temporary exhibitions on Jens Winthers Vej.
Prices:
Free entry.
Current exhibitions on Jens Winthersvej:
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