The Prison
Would you like to put your life into perspective? Visit The Prison (“Fængslet”) and experience the illuminating history and events that played out here.
As soon as you get behind the thick prison walls, you are enthralled with the stories and adventures of this special place. With an award-winning museum, concerts, festivals and the opportunity for accommodation in old prison cells, The Prison has so much to offer.
Enter an unknown world, now full of life, history and authentic personal tales. The museum has won several awards for its exciting exhibitions, which give you a different and thought- provoking experience. Here you get an extraordinary opportunity to get behind bars and meet former
inmates as shadows on the walls or follow an employee through the museum via interactive ID-cards or follow in the footsteps of the great escape artist Carl Lorentzen through an 18-meter-long tunnel. But don’t worry. The Prison will not lock you up. Contrary to Lorentzen, you are free to leave again.
recognition and much more, you must find a way out for yourself through the museum - and thus escape a life in prison.
The activity "The Hidden Stamp" has in record time become a big favorite among the youngest guests! As a newly arrived prisoner, you and your family will be handed a notebook from a previous prisoner with several tasks that you must solve in order to gain access to the hidden stamp that gets you out into freedom. With the help of Morse code, pattern
In 2021, Vestsalen opened a new spectacular culture, event and conference hall, which opens up for experiences in a league of its own. The unique architecture merges with raw prison aesthetics and creates an extraordinary setting. With V estsalen, The Prison's vision of opening up a previously closed world has come full circle.
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Vestsalen (the west wing) is the crowning achievement of The Prison's transformation.
