A Journey Back to the Mid-18th Century
The Count’s Apartments show his accommodation as it could have appeared in the mid-18th century. These rooms tell the story of the life and times of Crown Equerry, Count Jørgen Scheel and his second wife Charlotte Louise von Plessen.
The rooms are decorated in the rococo’s light pastel colours, elegant simplicity and asymmetrical idiom. They reflect Jørgen Scheel’s wealth and life of luxury, with expensive food and wines, sumptuous robes and wigs.
They include the magnificent dining room, which was the setting for the couple’s entertaining. Here are beautiful ivory-coloured silk tapestries, gold decorations and an exquisite parquet floor, which became fashionable in castles and manors at this time. In addition to The Dining Room, the Count’s Apartments also include the Count’s Bedchamber, where the count slept, The Small Cabinet with its desk, where the count could retire to work, and the connecting Butler’s Pantry.
The Count’s Apartments
The elegant dining room provided the setting for the count and countess’s representative life. Here, one can see, among other things, beautiful ivory-colored silk wallpapers, gilded decorations, and a magnificent parquet floor, which became fashionable in castles and manor houses during this period
The count’s elegantly furnished rooms, where he could both rest and sleep, as well as work, for example managing the estate accounts
The Butler’s Pantry with cabinets for tableware functioned as a serving corridor, where meals were prepared for service in the dining room
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
The cellar
Activity room and the servants’ hall
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