Old Town Odense
VESTERGADE, KONGENS GADE, ALBANI TORV, TOWN HALL SQUARE, HC ANDERSENS HAVE, CATHEDRAL, STATION


The Old Town is situated opposite the city center from Albani torv. Here you will find Møntergården, an open air musuem with very old buildings that can be visited inside, the HC Andersen Museum, sculptures of HC Andersen and very small, old and colourful typical Danish lowrise townhouses. This is where the famous author lived. The main street of the Old Town is Overgade, where you find many pubs and shops. I visited both Møntergården and the HC Andersen Musuem.


Side street to Overgade

 

Overgade, the main street of the Old Town
Overgade. Beware of the bikes!

 
Overgade   Overgade   Overgade

 

MØNTERGÅRDEN:

Bymuséet Møntergården is the cultural history museum at Overgade in the Old Town. It consists of old buildings from the late medieval ages and the renaissances, the most famous are half-timbered houses. You can also visit the buildings inside.


Møntergården. This red half-timbered house is one of the few buildings from the renaissance in Odense. I visited the building inside.

 



The courtyard of Møntergården

 
Møntergården, modern building        

 
Pernille Lykkes Boder (1617)       Poor people's apartment, 1600s


A narrow alley that leads to Overgade from Møntergården

 



 
Entrance to the red house, Møntergården        

 
The interior of the red half-timbered houses   The fireplace in the red half-timbered houses    

 
Møntergården is one of the few buildings from the renaissance in Odense       There is a museum inside the red half-timbered houses

 
    Møntergården's red house   The attic in Møntergården's red house

 
The Swedish King Karl Gustav conquered Funen in just a few days in 1658. He stayed in Odense for a few days before going to Sealand.      


Modern annex to the ancient museum of Møntergården. The building in the middle is called Østerbyes Gård (Easttown Courtyard) and is from 1631.

 

Østerbyes Gård to the left and a white house
The white house

 
Østerbyes Gård (1631)   Østerbyes Gård   Østerbyes Gård

 
Østerbyes Gård   Østerbyes Gård   Østerbyes Gård

 

 


Radisson HC Andersen Hotel with a statue of HC Andersen at the entrance to the Old Town. The hotel has 145 rooms.

 


Radisson HC Andersen Hotel has columns with sculptures of HC Andersen's fairytales


Radisson HC Andersen Hotel and Casino Odense

 
Sculptures in the Old Town        

 
Sculpture of HC Andersen   HC Andersen as a woman    

 


Sortebrødre Torv, just a few blocks from where HC Andersen lived. On this square he watched free theater performances that inspired him.

 


Sortebrødre Torv


Sortebrødre Torv

 

 
Sortebrødre Torv   Sortebrødre Torv   Sortebrødre Torv

 

HC ANDERSEN'S NEIGHBOURHOOD:

 
Old Town intersection: Ramsherred/Claus Bergs Gade   Odense Koncerthus (Concert Hall), a modern building built 1982 in the middle of the Old Town   Ramsherred street

 
Overstræde        

 
         


Fyns Grafiske Værkstad, Funen's Graphic Workshop. I made a short visit inside, it is a workshop for local artists that is open to public.

 


Funen's Graphic Workshop


 


HC Andersen's house is housing the HC Andersen Museum since 1908, situated in the intersection Bangs Boder/Hans Jensens Straede. Hans Christian Andersen (1805-75) was the famous Danish storyteller and poet and is the author that is most spread all over the world.

 


Sortebrødre Torv

HC Andersen's house, this is said to be the place where he was born. But he lived in a white half-timbered house at Munkemøllerstraede from the age of 2 to 14, also a museum.

 
HC Andersen Museum, entrance   HC Andersen Museum, entrance   HC Andersen Museum, himself

 
The museum documents HC's life as a child to a struggling shoemaker, as an author and later life.   HC Andersen Museum   Painted stories from his life

 
Painted stories from his life   HC Andersen Museum   HC Andersen Museum

 
HC Andersen Museum   This room is the suggested birthplace   This room is the suggested birthplace

 
HC Andersen Museum   HC Andersen Museum   HC Andersen Museum


Reconstruction of HC Andersen's apartment in Nyhavn, Copenhagen.

 


HC Andersen's apartment in Nyhavn


"The ugly duckling" is one of HC:s most famous "eventyr".


HC Andersen/Odense souvernir shop and restaurant.

 


HC Andersen's apartment in Nyhavn


"The ugly duckling" is one of HC:s most famous "eventyr".

 
Wall painting near the museum   Danske Bank seen from Old Town   The ugly duckling?


OIuf Bagers Gård.