a museum on the move
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Københavns Museum - the museum of the city - is between homes as building work moves forward on what will be their new home close to City Hall at Stormgade 18 but for the harbour festival they have had a temporary display in the harbour park at Islands Brygge.
Staff and archaeologists were there with historic maps and with archaeological finds to talk to people about the history of the harbour and about the amazing finds from their work at the major engineering excavations for the new metro. They have uncovered major sections of the defences at the old gates of the city and on the site of the historic wharfs along Gammel Strand … and this is not just about the extensive banks and ditches that protected the city but about the day-to-day life of the citizens with incredibly well-preserved finds that include shoes, a woolly hat, pottery vessels and glass ware and even a needle for mending fishing nets.
