Nymindegab Museum

Distance: 30.38 Km

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Nymindegab Museum offers a wealth of art, activities and insight into West Jutland's local history. Visit the outdoor garden or the old sawmill, let the kids build their own little sailboat, and enjoy the fantastic paintings in the footsteps of the Nymindegabmalerne.

At the Nymindegab Museum, art and cultural history merge when works by artists such as Laurits Tuxen, Maria Thymann, Oscar Matthiesen, Johannes Larsen are joined by stories about the cultural encounter between the local fishing population and the big city's painters and bathers.

Come and hear stories about the work of the seamaids, the fates of the fishermen and Dorthea's songs about life and death by the great sea. Hear also stories about the bathers' holidays in the area, the local artisans, the diverse life of the inn - and not least: the painters who, like Laurits Tuxen, found their motifs by the fjord, the sea and among the brave West Jutland people they met here.

In the outdoor garden, you can enjoy a cup of coffee from the café or go exploring in the old sawmill, which is full of history. The children can frolic in the playground, build their own little boat or dress up like they did in the old days.

The new memorial gap painters

In 1879, the painter Laurits Tuxen came on a journey from an artist colony in France up along the west coast of Jutland and stopped in Nymindegab. The young artist fell head over heels for the enterprising fishing village, which at the time was the West Coast's largest. The area at Nymindegab was a completely untouched part of Denmark. Here, life took its course in harmony with the sea. Tuxen was deeply fascinated by the endless golden dunes, the roaring sea and the local people. For an artist in search of motifs, it was a magical place to land. Since then, Laurits Tuxen returned to the area again and again, and he founded the artist colony Nymindegabmalerne, which attracted artists from Copenhagen.