Welcome to the multispecies museum: A town and its museum at a ford

What might we learn about our hometown’s cultural history if we focus our attention on the histories of the local river, the old ford and the city lives of animals in the past and the present?
With this project, The Cultural History Museums in Holstebro will celebrate our home town’s 750th anniversary.
We will create a lively and thought provoking exhibition about past, present and future cohabitation and mutual relationships between humans, non-human animals and the river and ford in Holstebro.
The project aims to explore an idea, which we call the multispecies museum. It is a museum that considers human beings as well as animals, plants and other non-human life forms as cultural historical actors in its storytelling.
The project is a collaboration between the museum’s archeologists, historians, anthropologists and researchers from the universities of Copenhagen and Aalborg.