When the flowers burst out in yellow, white and purple and the scent of meadowsweet wafts through the air, when the earth warms up and the bees start buzzing, little hands can explore all that grows wild and quiet right in front of us.
Esrum at children's height
Experience Esrum Monastery for children with activities for the whole family - every weekend, all year round. Here, the history of the monastery is something you don't just hear about, but feel, play with and explore together. Inside the monastery and out in the countryside, there are changing children's activities that follow the seasons. This means new experiences every time you visit Esrum.
Here you can see the current children's activities:
Every weekend, children's activities await you at Esrum Kloster & Møllegård.
Children's activities change with the seasons - so there's always a new experience for you
Tickets are available in the monastery shop
May & June
Early summer flowers
Sat. & Sun. 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Adults: 110 Kr.
Children: Free
All children's activities are included in the ticket
July & August
Landscape fabric
Sat. + Sun. 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Adult: 110 kr.
Children: Free
All children's activities are included in the ticket
May & June: Early summer flowers
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Borrow a Children’s Bag
Borrow a children’s bag from the Eye for Landscape exhibition and take it outside. Find, collect and get to know the flowers of early summer with fun little exercises -
Flower pressing in the exhibition
Bring your flower finds into the exhibition. Browse the books, press your flowers and get to know them. See also how you can make small pictures with the flowers -
Children’s tour
At 10:30 on Saturday and Sunday you can hear about Brother Stefan in the monastery cellar and follow his first day at the monastery. A fun tour at children’s level, where the senses come into play -
Treasure hunt, nature playground and VR glasses
Explore history together
July & August: Landscape fabric
It is full of grass, flowers, straw and branches all over the place. Some catch the light, others hide in the shade. Now it’s time for curious little hands to collect, select and weave all the green around your feet.
Slowly, a small woven landscape emerges – bound by everything you’ve seen and what you took the time to spot and collect
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Borrow a Children’s Bag
Pick up a Children’s Bag from the exhibition and head out into the landscape. Find a place to sit, look around and weave with what you find – grass, leaves and small things from nature -
Make your own Landscape Tapestry
In the exhibition Eye for Landscape you can make a simple cardboard landscape tapestry and see examples of what others have created -
Children’s tour
At 10:30 on Saturday and Sunday you can hear about Brother Stefan in the monastery cellar and follow his first day at the monastery. A fun tour at children’s level, where the senses come into play -
Treasure hunt, nature playground and VR glasses
Explore history together
Kids' activities every weekend - all year round
Every weekend, all year round, you can try children’s activities that bring history to life. Depending on the seasons, the children’s activities change so that the experiences always reflect the seasons. This means that you will always experience something new when you visit Esrum, whether you visit us when the sun shines or the snow lies like a thick duvet on Klosterengen.
All right here in Esrum – and of course at children’s height.












