The museum, which is run by the municipalities of Roskilde, Frederikssund and Lejre, has eight separate branches.

After pressure from the sugar company the city agreed to construct a new pier which enabled the ship to continue all the way to Roskilde.

Larger vessels had formerly only been able to travel as far up Roskilde Fjord as Frederikssund where goods had to be transferred onto smaller boats.

The company could not sell its sugar in Copenhagen and other towns that had their own refineries and only in portions of at least 20 pounds.

In 1764, the factory employed a bookkeeper, a sugar master by the name of Niels Andersen Breegaard, four workers, three boys, one farmhand and a woman who catered for the other employees.

The property was then acquired by Jacob Borch, a merchant, who used the sugar factory as storage for his grocer's shop in Algade.

It replaced a modest house with timber framing and a straw roof dating from the 17th century.

[4] On the occasion of his death in 1900, Liebe left the entire building complex to Roskilde Municipality.

Roskilde Local History Museum was founded on 12 November 1929 on the ground floor of the Liebe House.

Fjordcenter Jyllinge is dedicated to the local history of Gundsø, that is the northernmost part of Roskilde Municipality.