For kids
Parents, relax
We know that spending time with your children is invaluable. So you shouldn’t have to rack your brains for ideas when visiting Esrum Kloster & Møllegård. In fact, we’ve made everything easy for you. You can spend a whole day together. Start by taking a fun photo at the stocks and keep it as a souvenir. Enjoy an ice cream in the shop or grab a child-friendly bite in the Møllecafé. In the summer, sheep graze in the meadows – they love being patted.
Welcome to a place where – briefly – time stands still and those small moments become treasured family memories.
For the little ones
Go on a nature adventure
In the ‘Nature Adventure’ app, you’ll meet a boy by the name of Eskild. His task is to rescue a poor farmer from the stocks. This takes Eskild on an adventurous journey through the area surrounding Esrum Kloster & Møllegård. Together with Eskild, you have to find the wise woman who can use magic to help unlock the stocks. The app is your passport to taking part in Eskild’s adventurous day, which turns out to be a treasure hunt in the great outdoors. Together, on a 1.4-kilometre, child-friendly route, you have to see, hear and touch nature to solve all sorts of challenges. The app makes giving children aged 4-9 an experience of nature fun and easy. The adventure ends in our large Nature Playground, which whisks you and your children back to the Middle Ages. If the adventure makes you hungry, you can drop by the Møllecafé, where the children can colour a drawing of Eskild while you are eating. The ‘Nature Adventure’ is funded by the Royal North Zealand National Park in collaboration with Esrum Kloster & Møllegård.
Nature Playground
Entering the Nature Playground is like entering a medieval village. Together, you can pretend you are living in the Middle Ages. Stormandsgården is an amazing fortress where children are nobles. They have to scale a moat or ride the zip line to get in. You can also attack the fortress on a swing that looks like a trebuchet – a medieval war machine. In the marketplace, children can play the role of craftsman’s apprentice and bake bread in an ancient oven. They can crawl around in the old herring barrels or climb on the pigs at the farmer’s house. When the kids need a break, you can all relax in the picnic shelter or make twist bread or other tasty bonfire food in the Nature Playground, using ingredients you brought from home. Admission to the Nature Playground is free, and it is open 24 hours a day.
For older children
Digital time travel
VIRTUAL REALITY GLASSES
Make yourself comfortable, put on our virtual reality glasses and join us on a voyage back through the centuries, discovering the abbey buildings that no longer exist. The virtual reality glasses enable you to travel back in time: explore the abbey corridors, walk outside in the beautiful abbey garden and enter the huge abbey church. Get ready to fly! To end the trip, you will soar skywards for a stunning aerial view of the area. You can pick up a pair of virtual reality glasses on the 1st floor of the abbey. Digital journey through time with an iPad
Meet the ‘Spirit of Esrum Kloster’. This is an opportunity to see how big Esrum Kloster actually was more than 500 years ago. Using an iPad, you will visit the area around Esrum Kloster and see all the lost abbey buildings rising from today’s landscape. On your journey, you will meet the ‘Spirit of Esrum Kloster’, brought to life by the voice of the famous actor Lars Mikkelsen. The Spirit will tell you all about the monks’ life and guide you on a tour of the abbey’s library and dormitory – even down into a coffin where a monk is buried. You can get an iPad at the abbey shop by the entrance.
Dilemma Game: decide Denmark’s future
You are in the Middle Ages. Chaos reigns in society. The German monk Martin Luther has stirred up a debate about the future of the Church. He has just hung 95 theses on the door of the church in Wittenberg. The theses add up to a harsh criticism of the Church’s view of sin and salvation. As a result, the wealthiest families – the nobility – and the Church are fighting each other over what being a ‘real’ Christian in Denmark means. In the Dilemma Game, you play the role of a noble family. At the very centre of power and faith, you must determine who will have the power. Come up with the solutions, enter into clever alliances and determine the future of Denmark! The Dilemma Game is most fun when played in a group, but you can also play it alone. Play the Dilemma Game on the 1st floor of the abbey.
School holiday
