A Journey Back to the Late 19th Century
The Manor of Family and Private Life comprises five rooms, furnished and decorated for the modern family at the end of the 19th century. They focus on Count Jørgen Scheel, his wife Christiane Munk and their eight children. The home was the setting for the nuclear family – it was here that the deeply emotional family bonds between husband and wife, and between parents and children, were to be nourished, and the lady of the house was the loving centrepiece.
The five rooms comprise The Drawing Room, where the family could spend time together, The Bedroom, where the parents – unlike previously – now slept together, The Children’s Room, which was close to the parents’ bedroom, The Butler’s Gallery, which links the three rooms and the private room of the nurse, who took care of the small children in the family.
The rooms are furnished and decorated with the late-Victorian era’s soft furniture, velour tapestries, dark, heavy curtains and carpets in the same dark colours.
The Manor of Family & Private Life
The Drawing Room was the gathering place for the entire family. Here, people could relax and spend time together, play a game, or play the piano
The parents’ shared bedroom, with a large double bed and a bathtub that the servants could fill with water, which had to be carried up from the ground floor
In accordance with the family ideals of the time, the children’s room was located next to the parents’ bedroom. However, it was still the nanny—whose room was next to the children’s room—who, together with the governess and the tutor, took care of the children on a daily basis
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
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