It is owned by neighbouring Sorø Academy and contains an exhibition of physical instruments from before 1800 in its ground floor.

[1] The first floor contains offices and meeting rooms for the director of the foundation that owns the academy.

The collection was gathered by the scientist Adam Wilhelm Hauch (1753–1833) on his journeys abroad.

He sold it to the crown, and Frederick VI donated it to Sorø Academy in 1827.

[2] Vænget was used as a location in the 1995 film Kun en pige [da], an adaption of Lise Nørgaard's autobiographical novel of the same title.