The cellar
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A Journey Back to the Early 1900s
In the cellars beneath the main building of the house, you enter the world of the servants – a world rarely visited by the noble family.
Here are many of the functions that were associated with the manor house’s household. In Gammel Estrup’s cellar you can thus see a srevant's hall decorated with long tables, where the servants ate and relaxed in their sparse leisure.
In the room next door, you find an activity room for children, where you can explore the world of the servants. You can, among other things, look in through the door in the large stove, lift the heavy iron pots, open the drawers in the maid’s chest of drawers, listen to the servants’ own stories and experience the people’s everyday life on the manors more than 100 years ago.







The Cellar
The servants’ hall in the cellar, with long tables and benches, served as both a dining hall and a common room for the manor’s servants
The basement tower room is furnished as a beer cellar
Explore the world of the servants with all your senses
Other exhibitions
The Lord’s Manor
Renaissance nobleman Eske Brock's Parlour and manor Chapel
The Countess’s Elegant Rooms
The Countess's elegant Baroque interiors from the early 1700s
The Great Hall
The manor’s grand hall, which hosted large parties and celebrations
The Count’s Apartments
The Count's elegant rooms in cohesive Rococo style
The Great Cabinet & The Count’s Roundel
Magnificent interiors from the late 18th century
Rooms for Science & Pastimes
The Wild Count’s fabulous study and family living room
The Gentlemen’s Manor
Rooms where gentlemen relaxed with a fine cigar in the late 19th century
The Manor of Family & Private Life
The count’s family bedrooms and living spaces in the mid-19th century
Modern Times
Old heirlooms side by side with modern conveniences in the 1920s
The Attic
The invisible world of the servants, drying loft and storage room
The servant’s domain
The manor kitchen and the servants’ quarters at the beginning of the 20th century
Gardens & Cultural Landscape
Magnificent Baroque garden and a complete manorial landscape
Kitchen Garden & Greenhouse
Utility gardens and the socalled 'vine and peach house'
The Forester’s Cottage
Workers house, showing the lives of the forest workers in the 1930s
Christmas Upstairs & Downstairs
Experience Christmas at the Manor 100 Years Ago
The Manor Garden
Summer Exhibition About the Manor Garden at Gammel Estrup