Quietly understated but highly prosperous and advanced in its own right, Denmark has been making steady progress even as other countries in the EU decline. It is becoming more attractive as a business and a tourist destination. If you plan on doing business with the Danes or plan to visit this beautiful country, knowledge of [...]
Celestial Christmas arrives our homes and fills them with incredible wishes, warmest thoughts, fun and happiness. And the bells… they are so loudly, yet sweetly acclaiming about the Holiday of love and peace. The entire Christian World does every possible and impossible to celebrate this unique and special day surrounded by loved ones making it most fascinating [...]
Place of the Cultural center in Helsingyor is one of the best ones – opposite to Kronborg Castle, on the place of an old shipyard. The cultural center with an area of 1300 sq. m has been opened in October, 2010. At that time inside there some repair works were still being proceeded – painting [...]
It is more difficult to Danish children to construct a lexicon, rather than to their contemporaries of other countries. Last research spent at University of Southern Denmark, confirms this fact and offers a possible explanation to the fact why languages can be more difficult or easier for studying. When the Danish children reach an age of [...]
Thousand Danes have taken part in the research of the Danish dialects made by linguist Michael Ejstrup on the web- site videnskab.dk. Research shows that the Danish dialects are in safety though they constantly change. About 30.000 Danes who have learned about the project through the Danish School of Media and Journalism, heard online audio [...]
On April 7, 2004 the official opening of a new building in Aarhus – Museum of Arts ARoS – took place. Among other high-ranking officials at Museum opening ceremony Her Majesty The Queen of Denmark II was present there. On April 8, the new building of the Museum of Arts with an area of 17700 sq. [...]
In the period from May 22 till May 28, 2011 in the Danish city of Aalborg located in northern part of Jutland, the Aalborg Carnival was held. Founders of the Aalborg Carnival are Kirsti Thorvaldsen, Ebbe Lauridsen, Kaj Steensgård and Bramwell Flyckt, who organized the first Carnival in 1983 and created association called “Carnival in [...]
“We know about our ancestors only the things which they have left – their instruments of labor and their sacrifice, their dwelling and their tombs. We know only dead. Can they tell us something about living, breathing people?” (The Inscription from Mosgard Museum exposition, Aarhus) Many secrets store in themselves peat bogs. A lot from [...]
The state Museum of Arts is the Danish national gallery and the main museum of the fine arts in Denmark. It is located on Sølvgade in the center of Copenhagen. Primarily the goal of the museum was to collect, store, register and expose for display the collections of the Danish and foreign art. Among foreign [...]
In 2010 short excavations of the Castle in Timmesyoberg on island Maine came to an end, however before that archeologists were many times required to obtain the permit for excavation. As a result the group of Danish archeologists has made a rare discovery. The castle in Maine has appeared to be much more ancient than [...]
Christian music in Denmark is listen to not only by small groups of religious-adjusted Danes. Last years more and more musicians are observed who don’t hide their religious beliefs and their music even more often is played on charts and festivals. It concerns the musical project “Kloster” (“Monastery”) and group “Hymns from Nineveh” («Hymns from Ninevii»). «Religious [...]
«Ordkraft» (translated as «Force of a word») is the largest literary event which, since 2009, annually is held in the Danish city of Aalborg. This year to festival “Ordkraft” three days were provided from April, 7 till April, 9th, and the festival took place in the cultural center Nordkraft. In the festival program have been [...]
The conservatory has moved to a building belonging to masterpieces of the Danish architecture of the XX-th century. Wilhelm Lauritzen in 30-s constructed a building which has easily been altered according to new problems and realities, but at the same time hasn’t lost its architectural value at all. Initially State radio shared the so called [...]
Judging by images, men’s shirts and tunics could be both fitting and wide. They could be carried with a belt or without it. Fragments of fabrics from thin wool and flax, a part of a beautiful fringing, a belt with elegant buckles have been found. Raincoats were made from a more dense fabric. They were square breed [...]
The archaeological excavations made in York (England), reveal that in cities of that time people lived in conditions which under modern standards can’t be considered hygienic. However, it, undoubtedly, was characteristic for that period and even later. If to look at it from the point of view of the Europeans of that time, representation about [...]
