Køge Museum

The museum itself occupies a merchant's house from 1619 on Nørregade, which has had several lives: grocery store, garrison billet, poorhouse, and finally museum since 1909. The building is as interesting as the collection.

The permanent displays cover local history from the Stone Age through to the modern era. Highlights include the coin hoard, an exhibition on the ill-fated 17th-century warship Dannebroge, and material from a 4000 BC multiple-burial site at Strøby Egede nearby. The archaeology rooms are genuinely good — concise, well-labelled, and not trying to do too much. Children get in free.

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A story
In 1987, two electricians digging in a courtyard at Brogade 17 hit something hard. It turned out to be 32 kilograms of 17th-century silver coins — Denmark's largest coin hoard. The whole story, from the dig to the cataloguing to the question of who the silver belonged to, is told at Køge Museum.