Press releases

Lance find from Boeslunde is included in this year's Top 10 archaeological finds
Gold-decorated iron lances found at a spring in Boeslunde have been included in the Danish Agency for Palaces and Culture's Top 10 of the museums' most significant archaeological finds and discoveries in 2025.

Great donation for research
Museum Vestsjælland is participating in a research group that receives 4,5 million kroner from the Augustinus Foundation for research into the sustainable preservation of Viking ships. Old oak structures, such as

Great fund donation for floating exhibition
Museum Vestsjælland has received a generous grant of 2 million from A/S Dampskibsselskabet Orient's Fond for the project "Vestsjælland and the World Sea". The project focuses on Westsjælland

New discovery of gold-decorated iron lances sacrificed at sacred spring 2800 years ago
During a targeted excavation in August 2025, archaeologists from Museum Vestsjælland located a spring immediately next to and below Boeslunde's famous gold deposits, and produced a new

Museum Vestsjælland has a new head of outreach and communications
It is with great pleasure that we can welcome Nadja Ramseyer Krog. She brings experience in dissemination, communication, fundraising and management.

TV2 Øst report on the hunt for Viking castles
Together with the National Museum, Museum Vestsjælland is currently working on a large project that will attempt to reveal Viking castles and mounds on West Zealand from precisely that time.

Record numbers at museums during the autumn holidays!
There was a lot of activity all around during the school autumn holidays – at Museum Vestsjælland we had 25 percent more visitors than last year! Exactly!

TV2 Øst visits Kalundborg Museum
Kalundborg Museum was decorated for horror and horror on Monday evening when there was Night at the Museum. TV2 Øst came by – see

The Art Museum and the Painter's Garden receive great reviews
The art museum gets a great review Kulturinformation has visited Odsherred's Art Museum and got an enthusiastic review! Here it is described how the museum is 'close

Exhibition at Odsherreds Kunstmuseum receives prestigious award
Frederik Næblerød and Casper Aguila – two prominent voices in contemporary art – shared a passion when they painted giant works of art on the large, white facade of

Museum West Zealand enters into collaboration with Vetektor Buddy
Museum Vestsjælland enters into collaboration with Vetektor Buddy It began with a lecture about war – now veterans with metal detectors will help Museum Vestsjælland's archaeologists with

Museum Vestsjælland determines concept for new visitor center at Sct. Bendts Kirke
Museum Vestsjælland determines concept for new visitor center at Sct. Bendts Kirke Museum Vestsjælland has now chosen the concept for a future visitor center at Sct. Bendts Kirke