If you haven't visited before, Danes absolutely worship HCA. You can't go two blocks without stumbling on a statue of him, while walking on a street named for him.
If you haven't visited before, Danes absolutely worship HCA. You can't go two blocks without stumbling on a statue of him, while walking on a street named for him.
I visited Denmark a few years ago and went to the Hans Christian Anderson museum in his home town of Odense.
It's absolutely fantastic, the museum is presented like a story you walk through his life.
Highly recommend!
A funny thing about Odense is that HCA was known as a quintessential Copenhagener by his contemporaries. He left the his providential birth town as soon as possible and harbored no tender feelings for his origin. That hasn't stopped Odense putting his name and likeness everywhere in the city, so much that HCA nowadays is closely linked with Odense - even though his person and work never actually was beside his childhood.