Venue
Vartov, Farvergade 27, 1463 Copenhagen K, Denmark
The MumAE conference is being held at the picturesque Vartov.
Vartov was built from 1724-1755, and is situated next to Copenhagen’s city hall. The building is a large redbrick edifice with four buildings arranged around a placid courtyard. Vartov is known mostly because of Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig who was a pastor in Vartov Church from 1839 till his death in 1872. In earlier days Vartov was a hospital for poor and elderly people. The sickbays were placed in the southern wing of the building - with an open view to the Vartov Church placed right in the middle of the wing. In its heyday about 500 people lived in Vartov.
Today Vartov is owned by Grundtvigsk Forum, a grundtvigian society started in 1898 and still dedicated to reinterpret Grundtvig’s thoughts and make him known in Denmark and abroad. The Grundtvig-Library and the Grundtvig-Academy are based in Vartov.Vartov also houses three children’s institutions and several NGO’s such as The Danish Cultural Institute and the Association of Danish Museums. Two university centres are based in Vartov, namely Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre and The Grundtvig Study Centre.
About Grundtvig and Vartov
Map of Vartov and its surroundings