Has anyone out there been there? I ran across a mention in the NY Times-featured as one of "52 Best Places to Go" for 2023. It looks like I can take a train from Copenhagen? I am doing a quick trip to Copenhagen and Oslo in the spring....I wonder if it will be worth a side trip. It looks like the museum has an interactive and hands on approach, whick I find intriguing.
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Uppsala, Sweden
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I've never been to the museum myself, but Odense in general is a nice town well worth a visit. Easy to reach by train from Copenhagen.
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OP
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Thanks so much!
Posted by
Paris
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I have heard that this museum is absolutely fantastic. i would love to go next time I am in Copenhagen.
Posted by
Uppsala, Sweden
7760 posts
I've also heard many good things about the museum, unfortunately I haven't been to Odense since before the pandemic so I haven't been able to visit it (yet).
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Paris
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Posted by
Glostrup, Denmark
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We are going to Odense today and have tickets for HCA House tomorrow. I'l be back some time after that with my opinion :-)
Some years ago we visited the old HCA House and found it interesting. We also visited the Railway museum, which - honestly - was more interesting to me, but I am looking forward to the visit to HCA House tomorrow.
Posted by
Glostrup, Denmark
1499 posts
We visited the HCA Museum yesterday.
IMO it has too much video and audio and too little solid written information. You get a headset which gives you audio sound based on your position. The visual is a mix of confusing lights and pictures and video and stretches with cool white walls and soothing lights.
I'm so old I prefer written information, I can digest in my own speed - rather than talk from many voices, some of them talking over each other.
I stand by my opinion that the Raiway Museum is more interesting: https://www.jernbanemuseet.dk/en/
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We visited the museum in August 2022 and really enjoyed it. You did have to buy timed entry tickets which may still be the case. We did not know that at the time so we had a bit of a wait to get in. During that wait we walked over to the house he grew up in which was very small and wouldn't be something I would go out of my way for. The museum itself we really enjoyed. We were given headsets which narrated our tour through the museum. We really thought the layout of the museum was cool, displays were unique and we learned a lot. I could see where the museum may not be for everyone as it has a kind of modern Danish design vibe but our family (2 adults, 2 teens) had a good time. And we enjoyed just walking around Odense too.