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Museum · Aarhus · Updated on 1 November 2026.

Museum The Old Town, Aarhus

The Old Town, Aarhus is a museum in Aarhus, Central Denmark Region. This place has a story in the app. 7 of the 28 well-known points of interest nearby are within 1 km. Within 170 m you'll find a bench, a public toilet and a water point.

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Story · The Old Town, Aarhus

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You're standing at Den Gamle By, which means The Old Town. It sits right inside the Botanical Gardens of Aarhus, and it really is a whole little town, put together piece by piece. Have a look around: crooked half-timbered houses, small shops, a mill. Almost none of this was built here. The seventy-five buildings come from twenty Danish towns and were moved here over the years.

Read the whole story in the Outdoor Pitstop app: check in at this place and it is yours (with Pro; new users are Pro for the first 4 weeks).

Opening hours and admission

Admission
Paid
Wheelchair
Partly accessible
Visitors
546,485 a year (2018)

Source: OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.

Photos

10 photos from Wikimedia Commons. In the app you add your own photo when you are there.

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Facilities near The Old Town, Aarhus

The nearest pitstop of each kind within 1 km, as the crow flies.

Well-known points of interest nearby

28 well-known points of interest nearby, those with an audio tour first. 7 of the 28 well-known points of interest nearby are within 1 km.

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CastleStory

Marselisborg Slot · 3.5 km

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Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Pred assumed (based on copyright claims). · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.5View the photo on Wikimedia Commons
ARoS Art Museum
MuseumStory

ARoS Art Museum · 750 m

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Photo: Jon Wickmann · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0View the photo on Wikimedia Commons
Moesgaard
MuseumStory

Moesgaard · 8.1 km

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Photo: Nanda Sluijsmans from Den Haag, Nederland · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0View the photo on Wikimedia Commons

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Frequently asked questions

Is The Old Town, Aarhus wheelchair accessible?

Partly: according to OpenStreetMap it is only partly wheelchair accessible.

Is there a toilet or drinking water nearby?

Yes: a public toilet at 30 m and a water point at 170 m.

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