Tycho Brahe Museum
On Ven you will find one of the most fascinating museums in Sweden, it was if fact one of 28 museums in Europe, and one of three in Scandinavia, nominated for the Museum of the Year Award in 2007.
Tycho Brahe, the world famous Danish astronomer, worked on Ven from 1576 until 1597, turning the island into a centre for scientific research.
Today, two sites form memorials to Tycho Brahe: in the middle of island’s highest point lays
Uraniborg (place where a beautiful renaissance castle once was) with carefully reconstructed garden, and
Stjärneborg, the foundations of Tycho Brahe’s partially underground observatory - those crypts can be seen through cupola windows. Moreover, life-sized copies of the instruments and a multi-media performance helps understand the astronomer’s views on the universe and the observatory work.
To the Tycho Brahe heritage on Ven, counts also the
New Tycho Brahe Museum in the former All Saints Church that covers Tycho Brahe's life and work. There are 3-D films, models and two of the original instruments from Stjärneborg, brilliantly renovated by Czech craftsmen, to be seen there.
Opening hours: from 12th of April (2008) to the end of September: 10:00 to 16:00 (10 a.m. - 4 p.m.). Summertime, from the end of June to mid August, the museum close two hours later, at 18:00. Open also weekends in October (Groups are welcome to book visits all year round).
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