Roskilde Museum

Roskilde Museum is a local records museum primarily based in Roskilde, Denmark. The museum, that's run through the municipalities of Roskilde, Frederikssund and Lejre, has 8 separate branches. The important department in Roskilde, at the nook of Sankt Olsgade and Sankt Olsstræde, is based in indexed homes, the Sugar House and the Liebe House, a former sugar refinery and a former merchant's residence respectively. The sugar house changed into constructed through a consortium led with the aid of Johan Jørgen Holst as a facility for the processing of raw sugar from the Danish West Indies.

The other traders, a mixture of businessmen from Copenhagen and nearby merchants, had been individuals of his circle of relatives. The sugar business enterprise additionally had its very own deliver, Roskilde Ark. After stress from the sugar business enterprise the city agreed to assemble a brand new pier which enabled the ship to hold all the way to Roskilde. Larger vessels had previously only been capable of journey as some distance up Roskilde Fjord as Frederikssund wherein goods had to be transferred onto smaller boats. Roskilde Ark, additionally called the Sugar Ship, brought raw sugar and coal to the factory and shipped processed sugar to ports on Zealand in which it become offered.