We still have a few places in and around Kolding that we have free entry passes for that we haven't visited yet. We won't get to all of them and some of them are still closed, but we had time today for a quick trip to the nursing museum, Dansk Sygeplejehistorisk Museum. Ila and Mei and Freya and I went while Dean was at school and Liam stayed home. We thought it might be too creepy for Dean and Liam needed some alone time. It's a small museum showing the history of nursing in Denmark from the Middle Ages to the present. It built in 1911 as part of a sanatorium for children with tuberculosis. I initially thought it was the sanatorium but it was actually just where the nurses stayed. The sanatorium was next door in what is now a hotel.
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Hotel Koldingfjord, the location of the sanatorium, built at the beginning of the 1900s.
The children would sleep outside in their beds under the arches, fresh air being
their treatment for tuberculosis.After tuberculosis was eradicated,
the building became a psychiatric hospital for children. It then stood empty from
1983 to 1987, when the municipality sold it to an entrepreneur who turned it into
a hotel, which is now a popular place for wedding photos and receptions.
(photo taken from Wikipedia) |
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