Kroppedal

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Kroppedal Museum

The Kroppedal Museum is a national museum for Danish astronomy .

The museum was founded in 2003, twenty kilometers southwest of Copenhagen in the village of Vridsløsemagle. Kroppedal has extensive archaeological activities and is also involved in contemporary ethnological problems. The museum has a permanent exhibition on the history of astronomy, the astronomer and engineer Ole Rømer (1644–1710) in particular, and the collections include the only one of his pendulum clocks that survived the 1728 fire in Copenhagen.

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Coordinates: 55 ° 41 ′ 5 ″  N , 12 ° 18 ′ 42 ″  E