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Kongevejen 100. Tues-Sun: mid-April to Sept 10am-5pm, Oct 10am-4pm; 40kr, Wed free. Bus #184 from the city centre stops outside the main entrance, or take the S-Tog to Sorgenfri, from where it's a ten-minute walk. Twenty minutes north from the city centre is the open-air Frilands Museum (Frilandsmuseet), a wonderful mixture of heritage park, city farm and woodland retreat; if the weather's good it's worth bringing a picnic - you could spend hours here amidst the wild flowers and thatched and sod-roofed cottages. Established on its present site in 1901, the museum displays over a hundred buildings dating back to the seventeenth century from all over Denmark, southern Sweden and the Faroe Islands, furnished according to various trades - bakers, potters, blacksmiths, and so on - and offering a vivid picture of how rural communities lived in northern Europe in times past. The lopsided ochre cottages and farmsteads are grouped together according to region; the ticket office provides a map. The museum also runs a number of well-planned events, with staff in period costume engaging in arts and crafts such as weaving and folk dancing - the programme varies from week to week, so visit for details.
A horse-drawn carriage circles the Frilands Museum every thirty minutes (Tues-Thurs & Sun 10am-3pm, leaving from near the ticket office; 20kr).
At the far end of the museum, the Brede Museum (same opening hours, and entrance with same ticket) preserves parts of the industrial community - factory workers' cottages (many with their original interiors) and vegetable allotments - that grew up around the large clothes mill that existed here from 1831 to 1956, when it was handed over to the National Museum.
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