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 thoughtprovoking 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.

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 recognition and much more, you must find a way out for yourself through the museum - and thus escape a life in prison.

Vestsalen (the west wing) is the crowning achievement of The Prison's transformation.

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 Vestsalen, The Prison's vision of opening up a previously closed world has come full circle.

Family activity "The Hidden Stamp"

Events in 2022

The Prison is not just an award-winning museum! Did you know that there are events in and outside the prison building almost every weekend?

This year, you can attend these among others: International Convention for Crime Fiction, Horsens Medieval Festival, Grundlovsdebatten, Beers Behind Bars, Wall of Sound, the World Ballet, Habengut, Halloween and Christmas at The Prison.

Find them and more in the calendar at kystlandet.com or faengslet.dk/en.

Vestsalen (the west wing)

Lorentzen's escape tunnel

Listen to this Lorentzen spent 11 months digging a tunnel out of the prison.

The last decapitation in Denmark took place in Horsens State Prison

THE PRISON

Fussingsvej 8 8700 Horsens 76 10 00 11 kontakt@faengslet.dk faengslet.dk/en

OPENING HOURS

Find opening hours at the website. Guided tours are available in both Danish and English.

PRICES

Children 0-17 years Free Adults DKK 100-110