Skjoldenæsholm Tram Museum (
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: Sporvejsmuseet Skjoldenæsholm), also referred to as the Danish Tramway Museum, is an open-air museum dedicated to vintage
trams and
bus
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es. It is located south-west of
Copenhagen,
Denmark, between
Ringsted and
Roskilde.
The museum opened on land which belongs to
Skjoldenæsholm Castle on 26 May 1978. It was established and is run entirely by unpaid volunteers in collaboration with the
Danish Tram Historical Society.
The museum is founded on some of the remains of
Sjællandske Midtbane, a railway that was closed in 1936 and went from
Næstved to
Frederikssund over
Ringsted and
Hvalsø
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.
The museum's goal is to preserve and restore trams (and now also buses and trolleybuses) in running condition: ''Right from the inaugural meeting, the idea of preserving and restoring the fast-disappearing trams was conceived, so that future generations might be able to see and experience the old trams.''
Collection
The collection was founded in 1965. It consists mainly of rolling stock and related artifacts from
Copenhagen,
Aarhus
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and
Odense, the three Danish cities which historically operated tram systems, but also include trams from a number of other countries.
In 2003 the museum took over a collection of historic trams and buses when a museum run by HT (Hovedstadens Trafikselskab), the local bus company in Copenhagen, closed. Several other collections have followed since.
Tram lines
The museum has two tramways. A tramway is used for rolling stock from
Aarhus
Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and approximately northwest ...
,
Flensburg
Flensburg (; Danish, Low Saxon: ''Flensborg''; North Frisian: ''Flansborj''; South Jutlandic: ''Flensborre'') is an independent town (''kreisfreie Stadt'') in the north of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Flensburg is the centre of the ...
and
Basel. An app. tramway is used for trams from
Copenhagen,
Odense,
Malmö,
Oslo,
Prague,
Düsseldorf,
Rostock,
Hamburg,
den Haag,
Oslo and
Melbourne.
On selected days, vintage buses from Copenhagen, Aarhus and Odense are operated on a circular tour.
References
External links
Official websiteTram Travels: Tram Museum Skjoldenæsholm
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Transport museums in Denmark
Tourist attractions in the Øresund Region
Railway museums in Denmark
Ringsted Municipality
Museums in Region Zealand
Tram museums