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Danish Cold War bunker museum ‘sold out until summer’

A Cold War-era bunker in the northern Danish forest is experiencing high demand after opening to the public as a museum.

Danish Cold War bunker museum 'sold out until summer'
A Danish Cold War nuclear bunker, preserved for decades, can now be toured by the public. Viewings are in high demand. Photo: Henning Bagger/Ritzau Scanpix

A sprawling top secret Danish nuclear bunker opened to the public for the first time on Monday, shedding light on the Nordic country’s emergency provisions during the Cold War.

The underground shelter, where everything is still intact as in a time capsule, was taken out of service in 2003 and first revealed to the world in 2012.

Museum visitors can now walk two kilometres during a 90-minute tour of the bunker in North Jutland’s Roldskoven forest, but the waiting list to see the Cold War facility is considerable according to broadcaster DR.

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Tickets for the museum can be reserved with the Historical Museum of Northern Jutland, which is responsible for the new museum.

But the North Jutland museum is reporting that almost all tickets for visits in the next few months have been snapped up.

“We opened ticket sales on November 1st and have so far sold almost 27,000 of the 28,800 tickets we have put on sale until the summer,” head of publicity Lars Enevold Pedersen told news wire Ritzau.

Space in the nuclear-safe bunker is limited, meaning advance reservations are needed for the tours, which have a capacity of 10 visitors.

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IN PICTURES: Northern Lights over Denmark

An unusually active solar wind and clear skies meant that the Northern Lights could be seen across swathes of Denmark on Monday night.

IN PICTURES: Northern Lights over Denmark

Many Danes rushed to the northern coasts of Jutland and Zealand to catch a rare appearance of the phenomenon in Denmark. 

The Northern Lights seen from Hornbæk Beach. Photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix

“For us to see the northern lights in Denmark, the solar wind must be more active than usual”, Pagh Nielsen, a physicist who works with weather models at the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), said on the agency’s website.

The Northern Lights seen from Hornbæk Beach. Photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix

“That way, there are more electric particles that penetrate the magnetic field and hit the Earth’s atmosphere,” he said.

The Northern Lights seen from Hornbæk Beach. Photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix

The Northern Lights are not usually visible in Denmark more than once or twice per year. They are regularly visible in northern Scandinavia, Iceland and Greenland.

Photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix
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