Frihedsmuseet

The museum first opened on 15 October 1957 and was a gift from the resistance movement to the Danish state. From the very beginning, the Museum of Danish Resistance has been owned by the National Museum of Denmark and that is still the case today. The museum’s view as to how the Danish resistance fighters should be portrayed is something that has changed over time. From being presented as a single unit of anonymous patriots, today there is much more focus on the idea that the struggle was not a single, unified movement. Rather, it consisted of many different groups which spanned from the far left all across the political spectrum to the far right.

The Museum of Danish Resistance is a museum dedicated to Denmark’s resistance struggle during the occupation of 1940–45. After the museum was burnt down in an arson attack in 2013, the decision was taken to build a brand new and more contemporary museum at the same site in Churchhill Park by the Citadel (Kastellet). Fortunately, all of the irreplaceable artefacts from the occupation period survived the fire. Today, they are either on display at the museum or safely stored away in the museum’s repository. A large part of the new museum is subterranean, allowing visitors to quite literally take themselves underground on a journey back to occupied Denmark.

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