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culture<br />
This DSB Trans-Europ-Express was in operation until 1990.<br />
North Sea<br />
Altona<br />
Viborg<br />
Alborg<br />
Ringkobing<br />
Ahrus<br />
SWED SWEDEN<br />
EN<br />
D E N M A R K<br />
Ribe<br />
Odense<br />
FYN<br />
Copenhagen<br />
Roskilde<br />
Ringsted<br />
Koge<br />
ALS<br />
SJÆLLAND<br />
MØN<br />
Baltic<br />
LOLLAND<br />
Kiel<br />
FALSTER Sea<br />
GERMANY<br />
Hamburg<br />
50 km<br />
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their husbands can play with the children.<br />
We therefore take great care to make<br />
sure everyone really enjoys our collections<br />
and has a good time.”<br />
The museum’s gems<br />
In the middle of the collection stands an<br />
enormous grey and red snowplough from<br />
the 1930s. The room, entirely devoted<br />
to models of ferries, notably ice-breakers,<br />
as well as an identical reconstruction<br />
of a saloon occupied by ladies during<br />
a crossing, offers a striking impression<br />
of the manner in which the Danes travelled<br />
by train between the islands which form<br />
their country long before the opening of<br />
the gigantic bridges and tunnels which link<br />
them today. A series of posters show<br />
these huge concrete and steel structures,<br />
which now enable the crossing of Denmark’s<br />
many straights in minutes instead of hours,<br />
almost without one being aware of it.<br />
A model explains how one of these<br />
engineering feats was accomplished:<br />
the Great Belt Tunnel (Storebælt).<br />
In a further tribute to Danish ingenuity,<br />
the collection offers numerous examples of<br />
their striking innovations. It explains, notably,<br />
how imperial suburban trains were able<br />
to offer mass transport solutions in densely<br />
populated environments. It also exhibits<br />
platform-wagons with twelve terra cotta<br />
demijohns, each a cubic metre, used<br />
for transporting dangerous chemical<br />
products such as acids. If three or four DSB<br />
employees, responsible for inspecting<br />
the track, needed to see our work,<br />
the solution was to take a limousine and<br />
to replace its wheels with those of a rail car…<br />
“Although it had become useless,we left<br />
the steering wheel in place so that it didn’t<br />
disturb the passengers!” remarks<br />
Poul Thestrup.<br />
The Odense museum reminds us that<br />
Denmark has a history of elegant<br />
design and decoration. Three generations<br />
of royal cars are exhibited here as well<br />
as the museum’s star attraction, if we are