For kids
Parents, relax
We know that time with your children is priceless. That’s why you don’t have to invent the deep dish when you visit Esrum Kloster & Møllegård.
Spend a whole day
We’ve made it easy for you to spend a whole day together: Start by taking a fun photo at the concession stand and save it as a memory. Have an ice cream in the shop or grab a kid-friendly lunch in the Mill Café. In the summer there are sheep in the meadow that want to be petted. Welcome to a place where – briefly – time stands still and those small moments become treasured family memories.
Events all year round
During all school holidays, we have plenty of family activities based on the history, nature and cultural heritage of the area. We host events all year round for children and young minds, and we believe that learning and play go hand in hand.
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 app ‘Nature Adventure’ you meet the boy Eskild, who has to help a poor farmer out of a jam. This takes Eskild on a journey around the area of Esrum Kloster & Møllegård.
With the app in hand, join Eskild’s adventurous day, a treasure hunt in nature. Together you’ll see, hear and touch nature to solve a series of challenges on a 1.4 km child-friendly route. The app makes it fun and easy to take children aged 4-9 years out into nature. The adventure ends at our large nature playground. If the adventure makes you hungry, you can stop by Møllecaféen, where the kids can color a drawing of Eskild while you eat.
The Nature Adventure app is supported by Nationalpark Kongernes Nordsjælland and developed in collaboration with Esrum Kloster & Møllegård.
Nature Playground
At the nature playground you can pretend you live in a medieval village. At the cool fortress, Stormandsgården, the children are nobles. Here they have to climb a moat or take a ride on the cable car to get inside. You can also attack the fortress by swinging on a swing that looks like a gentleman, which was a war machine in the Middle Ages. In the marketplace, kids can play apprentice to a craftsman, crawl around in the old herring barrels or climb on the pigs at the farmer’s house.
When the little ones need a break, you can relax in the packed lunch house or make snow bread or other campfire food with what you’ve brought from home.
The nature playground is free to enter and is open around the clock.
For the big ones
Digital time travel
VIRTUAL REALITY GOGGLES
Make yourself comfortable, put on our Virtual Reality goggles and join us on a fantastic time-travel tour of the now lost monastery buildings. The Virtual Reality glasses allow you to travel back in time and explore the corridors of the monastery, outside in the beautiful courtyard and inside the mighty monastery church. Prepare for a bit of a glide! Because at the end of the tour, you’ll ascend to the sky and get an impressive view of the area. You’ll find the Virtual Reality glasses on the first floor inside the monastery.
DIGITAL TIME TRAVEL WITH AN IPAD
Meet ‘The Spirit of Esrum Monastery’: See how big Esrum Monastery really was in the Middle Ages. With an iPad in hand, you’ll tour the area and see the disappeared monastery buildings grow up in today’s landscape. On your journey you will meet the ‘Spirit of Esrum Monastery’, brought to life by the voice of well-known actor Lars Mikkelsen. The spirit tells you how the monks lived and takes you to the monastery’s library, dormitory and even into a coffin where a monk is buried. You can get an iPad in the shop at Møllegården.
Dilemma Game: decide Denmark’s future
You are in the middle of the Middle Ages: Society is in chaos because the German monk Martin Luther has caused great debate about the future of the church. He has just posted 95 theses on the church door in Wittenberg. The theses are a harsh criticism of the church’s view of sin, and they cause the nobility and the church to fight each other over what it means to be a “real” Christian in Denmark.
In the dilemma game, you are a noble family. You are at the center of power and faith and you must decide who should be in power. Find the solutions, make wise alliances and decide the future of Denmark!
The dilemma game is most fun to play with others, but it can also be completed alone.
The dilemma game is located on the 1st floor inside the monastery.
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