Silkeborg Museum

Museum Silkeborg is located at three different sites: Manor House (Hovedgården) and the Paper Mill Museum (Papirmuseet) in Silkeborg and Blicheregnen farm in the village of Thorning.

Silkeborg Hovedgård is also home to the Tollund Man, one of the most well-preserved naturally mummified Pre-Roman Iron Age bog bodies found in Denmark.

At Blicheregnen, the permanent exhibitions tell about noted poet and parson Steen Steensen Blicher (1782–1848) and about country life in general during the 19th century.

Blicher grew up in the parish next to the museum, and he was parson in Thorning from 1819 to 1825 where he wrote one of his most famous novels.

The museum also tells the story about the end of the civil war in the 12th century, which took place nearby the museum at the Battle of Grathe Heath (Slaget på Grathe Hede) where one of the Danish kings was killed.