It is located 65 km (40 mi) south-west of Copenhagen, Denmark, between Ringsted and Roskilde.

It was established and is run entirely by unpaid volunteers in collaboration with the Danish Tram Historical Society.

[1] The museum is founded on some of the remains of Sjællandske Midtbane, a railway that was closed in 1936 and went from Næstved to Frederikssund via Ringsted and Hvalsø.

1.5 km (0.93 mi) 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge tramway is used for trams from Copenhagen, Odense, Malmö, Oslo, Prague, Düsseldorf, Rostock, Hamburg, den Haag and Melbourne.

[2] On selected days, vintage buses from Copenhagen, Aarhus and Odense are operated on a circular tour.