Facts about...

...Visitors

1908: 4.020 visitors

1930: 28.014 visitors 
         (after the extension)

1950: 80.420 visitors

1977: 151.221 visitors  
         (after the rebuilding 1976)

1990: 148.297 visitors

2005: 183.563 visitors  
         (after the rebuilding 2002-04)

2008: 88.195 visitors

2009: 85.297 visitors

The visitor-numbers quoted for The Hans Christian Andersen Museum and The Hans Christian Andersen Childhood Home.  

 
 
Did you know that...

...The President of USA Harry S. Truman (1884-1972)

 

 

 

 

 

 

sent a greeting to the museum on April 2 1952. Harry S. Truman was the 33th President of USA from 1945 to 1953.

 
 

Publications on Hans Christian Andersen

There are a great number of publications concerning Hans Christian Andersen. In the Museum Shop’s web shop you find a great selection of books in several languages by and about Hans Christian Andersen.

Here you can read articles from Odense City Museum’s yearbook, Fynske Minder.

Portrait photograph by George E. Hansen 1862