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The Copenhagen City-Museum is installed on the top-floor of the Town-Hall. I t contains the model chamber and mo­ dels of the recent Copenha­ gen architecture, parts of old tu rn down building, as f. i. the entrance doors and wainscots, standards of the old guilds and corporations etc. besides some topographic historical collections from the early time of the city until 18G4, well worth seeing. P ic­ tures from before 1804 are placed in different rooms of the Town-Hall. Admission Sundays 12—4. Danish School-Museum (Ponte 3) owns its own building in Stormgade 3, near the Stormbroen and was established in 1887. I t is divided in­ to 3 departments, one contai­

ning historical things, one for modern educational apparatus and one for the library and reading-room. Admission free. Open Monday, Tuesday, Wed­ nesday, Thursday and Friday The Amager-Museum in Store Magleby or the Hollajnder- by (train about every hour from the Amagerbro Station) is an old farmstead, furnis­ hed as a dwelling of an Ama- ger-family in the 18th and 19th century. The »Amagers« were im­ ported from Holland in 1521 by K ing Christian II. A num ­ ber af peasants and sailors from Holland got the island as a present on the condi­ tion of developing the ho rticulture. These new inhabitan ts until about a 100 years

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