Current Opening Hours
April 6 - June 28
| Monday: | Closed |
| Tuesday: | at 10.00-16.00 |
| Wednesday: | Closed |
| Thursday: | at 10.00-16.00 |
| Friday: | Closed |
| Saturday: | at 10.00-14.00 |
| Sunday: | at 10.00-14.00 |
Special opening day:
Friday, May 15: 10:00 AM-4:00 PM
Friday, June 5: 10:00 AM-6:00 PM
Sorø Museum • Storgade 17 • 4180 Sorø
Tel.: +45 57 81 15 25 answered during opening hours
Children and young people under 18 years of age free admission
Joachim Burser's Pharmacy Garden at Sorø Museum is a historical garden that brings to life the work of the physician and botanist Joachim Burser with Danish plants in the early 1600th century. The garden recreates parts of his botanical garden and provides a clear insight into the plants he cultivated and used in his medical practice.
In 1625, Burser was invited to Denmark by Christian IV to teach medicine and botany at the Royal Academy of Knights in Sorø. At his home, he established a garden with medicinal plants and rare ornamental plants, some species of which still grow wild in the area. In 1631, he was also appointed the city's apothecary and was granted a license to operate a pharmacy.
His extensive work documenting plants resulted in Burser's Herbarium, Hortus Siccus, and the associated Danish Flora manuscript with descriptions of Danish species. The herbarium, which included over 3.200 plant species, ended up as war booty after the Swedish Wars and is today kept at Uppsala University.
The Pharmacy Garden conveys this botanical heritage and tells the story of how plants were used in medicine in the 1600th century.
The garden is open 24 hours a day and can be visited for free.