Kroppedal is a cultural-historical and astronomical museum in Vridsløsemagle from

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

, Denmark. Kroppedal is the national museum of Danish astronomy, has a large archaeological unit, and an ethnological unit specializing in modern society.

History

Kroppedal was established in 2002 by an amalgamation of the Ole Rømer Museum and the Antiquarian Unit in Copenhagen County. The museum has a permanent exhibition centred on noted astronomer and engineer

Ole Rømer Ole Christensen Rømer (; 25 September 1644 – 19 September 1710) was a Danish astronomer who, in 1676, made the first measurement of the speed of light. Rømer also invented the modern thermometer showing the temperature between two fix ...

(1644–1710). Kroppedal is located near the site of Ole Rømer's Tusculanum Observatory. Its collections include his only surviving pendulum clock.

References

External links

Kroppedal Museum website
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