Permanent exhibitions
Opening hours
April 2 - June 30
| Monday: | Closed |
| Tuesday: | at 10.00-16.00 |
| Wednesday: | Closed |
| Thursday: | at 10.00-16.00 |
| Friday: | Closed |
| Saturday: | at 10.00-16.00 |
| Sunday: | at 10.00-16.00 |
Special opening:
Thursday 9 May at 10.00-16.00
Friday 10 May at 10.00-16.00
Exhibition about the American B-17 bomber Mad Money II, which had to make an emergency landing at Asnæs near Kalundborg on 4 January 1944. In the exhibition you can e.g. see a Browning M2 machine gun, an oxygen tank, ammunition from the plane's nine machine guns and many other exciting items.
By a miracle, the crew survived attacks by German fighter jets and the dramatic emergency landing without a scratch. Shortly afterwards, they were captured by the German occupying forces and placed in Kalundborg Arrest, where they had to spend their first night as prisoners of war. The next day they were sent to a concentration camp in Germany and were not released until May 1945.
The exhibition tells about the crew's previous 16 bombing missions, the emergency landing in Denmark, Museum Vestsjælland's search for the crew's descendants in the USA, and the collaboration with American aircraft specialists, authors and aviation museums, etc.
Kalundborg Crusader wallpaper
The woven and colorful wallpaper tells the exciting story of Esbern Snare, Bishop Absalon and the kings Valdemar the Great, Knud Valdemar's son and Valdemar Sejr's crusade to the area around the Baltic Sea in the 11th and 1200th centuries. The tapestry is 7,2 meters long and divided into 12 individually woven picture scenes. Central to the story is the Battle of Rügen against the Vendors in 1168 and the Battle of Lyndanisse in Estonia in 1219, where Dannebrog fell from the sky.
Scenes from Esbern Snare's foundation of Kalundborg, Vestborgen and Højbyen and his daughter Ingeborg's construction of the five-tower church naturally also appear. The scenes are based on the artist Claus Jørgensen Muldstrup, and are woven by 12 members of the association Weavers in West Zealand.
In the Sign of the Cross
Medieval exhibition about 200 years of Danish crusades to Palestine, northern Germany and the Baltics with a focus on the role of the White Family and Central and West Zealand in this.
In 1095, Pope Urban II called the first crusade to liberate the Holy Land. This ushered in nearly 200 years of repeated crusades; not only against Jerusalem, but also in Moorish (Muslim) Spain and against the pagan turners in the Baltic Sea.
The Kalundborg region's antiquity: Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Viking Age
In three small exhibitions, you will be presented with objects from the hunter-gatherer and peasant stone age, magnificent objects from the Bronze Age and ornamental and everyday objects from the Viking-era great manor at Tissø.
"Living relics"
The museum's six spectacle beds are the first in Denmark to contain only “monk plants” or “ancient monuments” that have been found on the site. This makes the garden the only authentic cultural botanical garden in Denmark. Here are a total of 37 different species of old medicinal, spice, ornamental, kitchen, color and poison plants. All the species were originally introduced to Denmark in the Middle Ages or earlier, and they still grow wild in or around Højbyen in Kalundborg. The cultural botanical garden was created by Hans Guldager Christiansen and Birger Prehn in 1997.
In the garden you will also find the famous ceramic model of the fortress town and market town of Kalundborg around 1650. The model was made in 1951 by Pastor Steen Andersen.
Eat the packed lunch at the garden tables, while you enjoy the old mulberry tree, the view of the church and the fjord and sense Højbyen's enormous ramparts from Valdemar Atterdag's time.
