Visit to Aarhus

On 10th of February we went for a college excursion to Aarhus. We made a special plan before: we were divided to groups and every group had to introduce one of the following attractions:

• the old town - Den Gamle By
• the Cathedral
• the latin quarter
• the Art Museum - ARoS

The first attraction was the old town, which is not the in it's origin place: all of the old houses (from XVI.-XIX. centuries) - around 70 - were moved from all parts of Denmark to here. There are some exhibitions about the old life - e.g. school, pharmacy - , but the place also introduce the life of craftmen. I really liked the signs of craftmen, which are on almost every houses. My favourite part was the old watermill and stream with the geese...

We also saw the old windmill, but after that we rushed to the citycentre to see the Cathedral. It was a long way, but it was worthy, because this gothic cathedral has the longest nave in Denmark.

After this we little bit lost: we tried to find the latin quarter, but I'm still not quite sure we did or not...

Then we visited - in my opinion - the most interesting attraction in Aarhus: the ARoS, which one of the largest art museums in Northen Europe. It was our group job to make questions about this attractions. We diveded the group to 2 parts and the competition has started...
There are different kind of galleries: one shows the Golden Age - XVIII-XIX. century - of Danish art, but the most exciting one the galleries of modern art, contemporary art and digital art. The strangest statue I have ever seen is "The boy", which face and gaze shows different kinds of feelings if you look at it from different angles.
Unfortunatelly I haven't seen the Golden Age part of the exhibition, because we had to rush to the train.




There we corrected the questionnaire and the results of the two groups were drawn.

I really enjoyed my first excursion in Denmark. The only critic I have is the lack of time...