Historical HUNT FOR YOUR CLASS

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You can pick up the Mystery Hunt game boxes at the Freedom Museum, a 2-minute walk from the Citadel and a 15-minute walk from the King's Garden. You are welcome to pick up the packs before the day you need them. When planning the pick-up of the puzzle material, please note the following Opening hours of the Freedom Museum. 

You will typically receive four Mystery Hunt game boxes to divide your class into smaller groups of 4-8 participants. The game box contains all the material you need to complete the mystery hunt.

You can be up to 100 participants divided into smaller groups of 4-8 participants.

You need to book the experience and divide your class into smaller groups depending on what you book. Beyond that, you just need to be the confident guide who takes them to and from the experience. Whether you want to participate in the experience or be an observer is entirely up to you.

You can talk about the structure of the material and the tools that determine how the text is read. You can dive into specific sentences or discuss the proverbs and sayings you've come across along the way. What does it mean?"that whom you chastise, you love"?  Or, What does it mean to jeopardise something?

The tour fits well with a programme about key developments and events in Denmark's history around the royal lineage. You'll also meet Struensee, Caroline Amalie and other historical characters on your tour of the King's Garden.

Hidden in the stories you'll be introduced to several examples of power, political behaviour and intrigue. You can discuss the different cases and contextualise them to similar cases in the present day and how they would be dealt with and resolved.

If you want to make the tour part of your English lessons, you can get the material in English.

The backdrop for many of the royal intrigues is often about betrayal or love. You can discuss how forbidden love due to family relationships or status is still very much a part of contemporary life. You can talk about arranged marriages, identity and forbidden love in different religious contexts.
There's also a character who has chosen to enter a monastery - why does she do it and what does it really mean?

Take photos of the sculptures and statues you come across on your trip so you can analyse them later in your visual culture and traditional art forms classes. Or dive into a single sculpture together:

For example The Lion and the Horse
Discuss political art that's not just something from the present.