The first part of the street passes the Jewish Northern Cemetery to the west and De Gamles By to the east.
The public space Guldbergs Plads with a landscaped playground, is located close to its north end.
The name referred to Garvernes Barkmølle ("The Tanners' Bark Mill") at Sankt Hans Torv, one of three windmills in the area.
It occupies a dense site between Guldbergsgade, Mimersgade, Nørrebrogade and Peter Fabers Gade and was established in 2011–2013.
It is partly based in a complex of old, industrial buildings which were adapted for their current use by Bertelsen & Scheving Arkitekter.
The installations are all painted in the same blue colour to lend a sense of place to the formerly rather deserted public space.