The museum is located in Frederiksberg area of Copenhagen, which allows the visitors to get an authentic feeling for the atmosphere that the house would exude at the time. The Bakkehus Museum was opened in 1925 under the name of The Rahbek Memorial Rooms. The museum was then extended with memorial accommodation facility for the poets Johannes Ewald and Adam Oehlenschläger. In 2002, museum opened with a new wing for public showing the place for Rahbeks’ kitchen. There is one of the museum library of antique articles and two rooms that are used for temporary exhibitions. The building is today owned by Frederiksberg Municipality and is surrounded by an old-fashioned public park and a private museum with garden.
The museum story depicts that Rahbaek family lived here upto1802 to 1830, hosting a popular salon for Danish literary personalities - Hans Christian Andersen and Adam Oehlenschlager (author of the Danish national anthem) were frequent guests. The peaceful museum preserves the house more or less as the Rahbaek left it, and provides an interesting insight into the literary setting of the Golden Age. A visit to these rooms of this Museum gives a vivid and beautiful look into the time, environment and atmosphere at the beginning of the 19th century.
There is a place known as glass case room where visitors can see many of Kamma Rahbek’s fine boxes and a collection of drawings revealing both a deep interest in art and a multifaceted talent. The suburb of Frederiksberg played a significant role during the Golden Age, and the mythical cultural-historical Bakkehus Museum that contain authentic Golden Age interiors, where the part of the most visited place where the visitor sense the presence of history and of the bel sprits that frequent visit these very rooms.
