The Tinderbox Cultural Centre for Children is part of Møntergården, which is situated in the heart of H.C. Andersen’s Odense at Møntstræde 1, Odense C. You can park in the car park under Odeon (Odense P-Øst), Hans Mules Gade 8, Odense C
Find directions here.
Please notice: We have a certain limit on visitiors allowed inside at the same time, and on especially busy days you may experience having to wait a short while to enter. This is due to safety reasons and to ensure that everyone will have a good experience here.
There is wheelchair access on the ground floor of the listed building. The first floor is not accessible. Admission is free for personal assistants who are working. Assistance dogs are welcome.
Prams/pushchairs are not permitted in the exhibition.
Photos may be taken for private use – though without the use of flash. Please show consideration for the other museum visitors, however. We would love you to share your experiences with others. Use #hcao on Instagram.
You are very welcome to enjoy your packed lunch at the picnic tables in the courtyards or in Træhytten (the wooden hut). Alternatively, the area around Møntergården is brimming with restaurants and cafés.
Rucksacks and large bags are not permitted at The Tinderbox Cultural Centre for Children. You are welcome to make use of the lockers at Møntergården.
We offer guided introductions, as well as tours for professionals or students with special interests or requests.
The tours are offered in Danish and English.
Price: 2000 DKK + entrance fee (students have free entrance).
Duration: 60 minutes.
Group maximum: 25 people.
You are welcome to arrange your birthday at the Tinderbox.
Please notice that food cannot be enjoyed inside.
Contact us for further information and booking.
We are happy to arrange the opening of the museum outside normal opening hours.
Price for 1 hour: 1500 DKK + entrance fee.
Each subsequent hour: 800 DKK
museum@odense.dk
or tel. +45 6551 4601
Business hours:
Monday-Thursday 9 am – 3 pm
Friday 9 am – 12 noon
In case of cancellation within 24 hours of the tour, we charge the full amount.
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H.C. Andersen’s Birthplace is situated in the heart of H.C. Andersen’s Odense at Hans Jensens Stræde 45, Odense C. You can park in the car park under Odeon (Odense P-Øst), Hans Mules Gade 8, Odense C
Find directions here
It is not possible to get around in the listed building in a wheelchair. Admission is free for personal assistants who are working.
Assistance dogs are welcome. Prams/pushchairs are not permitted in H.C. Andersen’s Birthplace.
Photos may be taken for private use – though without the use of flash. Please show consideration for the other museum visitors, however. We would love you to share your experiences with others. Use #hcao
There are many restaurants and cafés in the area. You are welcome to enjoy your packed lunch at Møntergården, a few minutes’ walk from H.C. Andersen’s Birthplace.
Rucksacks and large bags are not permitted at the museum. You are welcome to make use of the lockers at Møntergården. Møntergården is located just a few minutes’ walk from H.C. Andersen’s Birthplace.
We offer a guided tour where we introduce you to Hans Christian Andersen’s childhood in Odense.
On the tour we pass by the Hans Christian Andersen Museum, his Birthplace, Childhood Home, and a number of places that relates to his childhood and fairy tales.
Price for the guided walk: 750 DKK.
Group maximum: 28 persons.
The tour is about 3 km.
Meeting spot: Claus Bergs Gade 11, in front of the Hans Christian Andersen Museum.
Please notice that the tour may not be suitable for people with walking disabilities.
In case of cancellation within 24 hours of the tour, we charge the full amount.
We are happy to arrange an opening of the museum outside normal opening hours.
Price for 1 hour: 1500 DKK + entrance fee.
Each subsequent hour: 800 DKK
Including the opening of the Hans Christian Andersen Museum:
Price for 1 hour: 2000 DKK + entrance fee.
Each subsequent hour: 1000 DKK
museum@odense.dk or tel. +45 6551 4601
Business hours:
Monday-Thursday 9 am – 3 pm
Friday 9 am – 12 noon
H.C. Andersen’s Childhood Home is situated in the heart of H.C. Andersen’s Odense at Munkemøllestræde 3-5, Odense C. You can park in the underground car park at Magasin.
Find directions here.
Wheelchair access is limited in the listed building. Admission is free for personal assistants who are working. Assistance dogs are welcome. Prams/pushchairs are not permitted at the museum.
Photos may be taken for private use – though without the use of flash. Please show consideration for the other museum visitors, however. We would love you to share your experiences with others. Use #hcao
You are welcome to enjoy your packed lunch in the fairy-tale garden of H.C. Andersen’s Childhood Home. Alternatively, the area around H.C. Andersen’s Childhood Home is brimming with restaurants and cafés.
Rucksacks and large bags are not permitted at the museum.
We offer a guided tour where we introduce you to Hans Christian Andersen’s childhood in Odense.
On the tour we pass by the Hans Christian Andersen Museum, his Birthplace, Childhoodhome, and a number of places that relates to his childhood and fairy tales.
Price for the guided walk: 750 DKK.
Group maximum: 28 persons.
The tour is about 3 km.
Meeting spot: Claus Bergs Gade 11, in front of the Hans Christian Andersen Museum.
Please notice that the tour may not be suitable for people with walking disabilities.
In case of cancellation within 24 hours of the tour, we charge the full amount.
We are happy to arrange an opening of the museum outside normal opening hours.
Price for 1 hour: 1.500 DKK + entrance fee.
Each subsequent hour: 800 DKK
museum@odense.dk or call +45 6551 4601
Business hours:
Monday-Thursday 9 am – 3 pm
Friday 9 am – 12:00 noon
H.C. Andersen Museum is a treasure trove filled with everything that constituted the fairy tale writer’s life and art. This is where you will find all the authentic and unique items – all the things he kept because they meant something to him, or that have been kept because he meant something to others: the manuscripts, the paper cuts, his belongings, the hat.
Learn about the artist and get right up close to the man that was Hans Christian Andersen.
H.C. Andersen Museum is situated in the heart of H.C. Andersen’s Odense at Claus Bergs Gade 11, Odense C.
You can park in the car park under Odeon (Odense P-Øst), Hans Mules Gade 8, Odense C.
Find directions here.
The entire museum is accessible by wheelchair. There is a lift between the ground floor and the first floor. Admission is free for personal assistants who are working.
Assistance dogs are welcome.
Prams/pushchairs are not permitted in the exhibition.
Photos may be taken for private use – though without the use of flash. Please show consideration for the other museum visitors, however.
We would love you to share your experiences with others. Use #hcao
There are many restaurants and cafés in the area. You are welcome to enjoy your packed lunch at Møntergården, a few minutes’ walk from the museum.
Rucksacks and large bags are not permitted in the exhibition. Unfortunately, we do not have lockers, but you are welcome to make use of the lockers at Møntergården. Møntergården is located just a few minutes’ walk from the museum. You can also make use of our unlocked storage shelves.
Get closer to Hans Christian Andersen, his life and work through our guided tours.
Guide from Odense City Museums:
Price: 550 DKK + entrance fee.
A tour lasts 45 min.
Maximum 25 participants.
If you have special requests for your tour, you can book a museum curator:
Price: 2000 DKK + entrance fee.
In case of cancellation within 24 hours of the tour, we charge the full amount.
We are happy to arrange the opening of the museum outside normal opening hours.
Price for 1 hour: 1500 DKK + entrance fee.
Each subsequent hour: 800 DKK
Including opening of Hans Christian Andersen’s Birthplace:
Price for 1 hour: 2000 DKK + entrance fee.
Each subsequent hour: 1000 DKK
museum@odense.dk
or call +45 6551 4601.
Business hours:
Monday-Thursday 9 am – 3 pm
Friday 9 am – 12 noon
Møntergården is situated in the heart of H.C. Andersen’s Odense at Møntestræde 1, Odense C. You can park in the car park under Odeon (Odense P-Øst), Hans Mules Gade 8, Odense C.
Find directions here.
The new exhibition building is accessible by wheelchair. It is not possible to get around the Life of the City, Histotoriet and the Children’s Backyard in a wheelchair. Admission is free for personal assistants who are working. Assistance dogs are welcome. Prams/pushchairs are not permitted in the exhibitions.
Photos may be taken for private use – though without the use of flash. Please show consideration for the other museum visitors, however. We would love you to share your experiences with others. Use #HCAO
You are very welcome to enjoy your packed lunch at the picnic tables in the courtyards or in Træhytten (the wooden hut). Alternatively, the area around Møntergården is brimming with restaurants and cafés.
Rucksacks and large bags are not permitted in the exhibitions. You are welcome to make use of the lockers.
We offer guided tours of all the exhibitions at Møntergården.
Guide from Odense City Museums:
Price: 550 DKK + entrance fee.
Maximum 25 participants.
If you have special requests for your tour, you can book a museum curator:
Price: 2000 DKK + entrance fee.
We are happy to arrange the opening of the museum outside normal opening hours.
Price for 1 hour: 1500 DKK + entrance fee.
Each subsequent hour: 800 DKK
museum@odense.dk
or tel. +45 6551 4601
Reach us:
Monday-Thursday 9 am – 3 pm
Friday 9 am – 12 noon
In case of cancellation within 24 hours of the tour, we charge the full amount.
From the age of 2 to 14, Hans Christian Andersen lived in a small house on Munkemøllestræde. A couple of hundred years have passed since then, and the puppet theatre is no longer played with. There is no father waiting to read Holberg to the young boy. And no one sees the snow queen in the ice crystals on the window panes on cold winter mornings. The stove burns in vain.
And yet, you will find it all in the little childhood home. Everything that inspired Hans Christian Andersen’s dreams.
Will-o’-the-wisps. Goblins. Elves. Bone-horses and talking lizards. Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Elf Mound is full of magical creatures. At The Tinder-Box Cultural House for Children’s exhibition at Møntergården, you become part of the story. Step inside the mound and discover gnarled tree roots, fire under the pots and mountain caves to sleep in, as well as weird and wonderful costumes. Elf shops entice, and board games stand ready.
You’re allowed to touch everything. Listen, play, transform. Let time stand still and spend it with those you love in a whole new world.
Visit the cultural history museum Møntergården, where the old houses and courtyard are just as they were in Hans Christian Andersen’s day. Discover and experience the narrow alleyways and backyards that were part of Hans Christian Andersen’s childhood reality. And get right up close to Odense and Funen – from antiquity to the present day – at the museum’s exhibitions and the children’s museum, Histotoriet, where visitors are allowed to touch and try everything.
In what was then the poorest part of Odense, behind the windows of the now iconic yellow house on the corner. This was where Hans Christian Andersen was born on Tuesday 2 April 1805, at 1 o’clock in the morning. As the son of a poor washerwoman and a not-yet-qualified cobbler, there was nothing at that time to suggest that Hans Christian Andersen would break from his social heritage to become the world’s greatest fairy tale writer.
On Sortebrødre Torv lay a theatre that enchanted Hans Christian Andersen. Here his dreams of the theatre were born.
On the first floor at the Poor House lay the charity school. Here Hans Christian Andersen received instruction during his final years in Odense.
Hans Christian Andersen’s mother worked as a washerwoman at the washing site down by the river. The harsh conditions are described in the tale ‘She was Worthless’.
The large bronze statue in Eventyrhaven overlooks the deepest spot in the river, where, according to Andersen’s tale “The Bell-Deep”, the River-Man lives.
Hans Christian Andersen has been in Odense prison. Though only as a visitor. For his parents knew the caretakers there. The terrible prison is describe in the novel ‘O.T.’
Hans Christian Andersen was confirmed in Odense Cathedral. This experience inspired him to later write “The Red Shoes”.
The square in front of the Town Hall was torch-lit when people gathered to pay their tribute to Hans Christian Andersen when he was made an honorary citizen of Odense in 1867.
Grey Friars was a complex of buildings with a church, hospital and lunatic asylum. Here Andersen listened to old stories and the ravings of the insane.
Hans Christian Andersen’s mother worked at the castle as a washer-woman and often took her boy with her. In the courtyard there he used to play with the future Frederik VII.
In 1805 Hans Christian Andersen was presented to the vicar in Sct. Hans Kirke. According to the clergyman he shrieked ‘like a cat’. The writer hans a commemorative plaque in the church.
