Stiftsmuseum Maribo, also known as the Maribo County Museum, is a museum located in the centre of Maribo on the

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island of

Lolland Lolland (; formerly spelled ''Laaland'', literally "low land") is the fourth largest island of Denmark, with an area of . Located in the Baltic Sea, it is part of Region Sjælland (Region Zealand). As of 1 January 2022, it has 57,618 inhabitant ...

. Its archeological and cultural heritage collections are housed in a specially designed building completed in 1890. Currently the exhibits include rustic furniture from Toreby, a variety of old clocks and the Maribo book collection consisting of some 2,000 volumes. There is also a complete set of the 18th-century

Flora Danica ''Flora Danica'' is a comprehensive atlas of botany from the Age of Enlightenment, containing folio-sized pictures of all the wild plants native to Denmark, in the period from 1761 to 1883. History ''Flora Danica'' was proposed by G. C. Oede ...

illustrations of plants and flowers. Funded by donations from the local population, the museum was designed by the architect Ove Petersen (1830–1892) who also designed the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen."Stiftsmuseet kommer til Maribo"
Museum Lolland-Falster. Retrieved 23 June 2013.

References

External links

Official website
{{WikidataCoord, display=title Museums in Region Zealand Museums established in 1890 Lolland Tourist attractions in Region Zealand Buildings and structures completed in 1890 Maribo 1890 establishments in Denmark