The Home Guard Museum

A voyage of discovery into the history of Denmark’s voluntary defence forces.

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Opening hours

09.00 – 17.00 daily
From 01. April to 31. October

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Enterance

It’s free
to visit the exhibition

Barrack H2 of Frøslev Camp houses Hjemmeværnsmuseet (the Home Guard Museum). This museum was established in 1988 by a group of passionate Home Guardsmen with a historic interest. They wanted to spread the knowledge of the Home Guard and its history over the years.

Exhibition of the development of the Home Guard

Visit this museum to explore the history of the Danish Home Guard. The exhibition informs you of the development of the Home Guard from its establishment just after World War II and until today, including the development of uniforms, equipment and machinery of the different sub-units of the Home Guard over the years. For instance, you can see the equipment handed out to a Home Guardsman in 1957, in 1987 and until today.

The exhibition also holds some surprises for you. Did you know, for instance, that voluntary Home Guardsmen have been on duty outside Denmark? They have independently or as a support to the Danish Defence solved tasks far away from home. That is also part of the exhibition which is divided into nine parts:

Guarding in Afghanistan
Guarding in Kosovo
Civil construction in Afghanistan
Structuring a Home Guard in the Baltic States
Education in sea rescue services in Africa etc.
Structuring a National Guard in Georgia
Guarding of planes in Mali
Education of soldiers in Kenya
Education of soldiers in Iraq

Blue and green borders

2018 saw the opening of a new special exhibition at the museum. This exhibition shows how the Home Guard has assisted the policy in connection with the temporary border control. Together with text and pictures, exhibits from the two Home Guard border control units at “the green border” in Southern Jutland and “the blue border” in Rødby and Gedser tell the story of the border control. The exhibition shows a relevant Home Guard task with specially trained Home Guardsmen. Together with the police they have been trained to handle tasks which may appear in connection with the border control.

Movable exhibition

Parts of the exhibition at the Hjemmeværnsmuseum are doubled and used for recruitment campaigns with local units of the Home Guard. The posters telling the story of the efforts abroad and the support to the Danish border control travel around the country to help disseminate the most recent stories of the Home Guard, so the museum.

Contact our custodian for a guidet tour