Museum to host exclusive fossil hunt after World Heritage designation

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Knudeklint on Fur was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List this weekend, together with Hanklit on Mors. (Photo: © James Brooks, AFP/Ritzau Scanpix)

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Andreas Holm Hansen ([email protected]) 53 minutes ago

In the future, tourists will be able to have a very special experience when they visit Knudeklinten on Fur, which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site this weekend.

Museum Salling will be exploring the possibility of offering exclusive fossil hunts.

> We will live up to what UNESCO expects of a World Heritage site

> Per Lunde Lauridsen, museum director at Museum Salling

According to Per Lunde Lauridsen, museum director at Museum Salling, the fossil hunt should be aimed at the more academically interested tourists. This could be, for example, a researcher.

- The designation attracts a different customer group, one that is more professionally interested in natural history and geology, and who would like a more academic explanation of the natural history story on Fur, he says.

The fossil hunt itself will not be very different from what the more ordinary museum visitors can experience.

Instead, the difference lies in the interpretation of the moler cliff and the fossils.

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Will live up to UNESCO's expectations

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To improve the experience, Museum Salling will receive an additional 850,000 kroner per year from 2027.

The more academically oriented fossil hunts may not be a goldmine for the museum, but it is about living up to the expectations of a World Heritage site.

The moler cliffs on Fur and Mors contain fossils that are many millions of years old. (Photo: © James Brooks, AFP/Ritzau Scanpix)

- We will live up to what UNESCO expects of a World Heritage site. That is that we can also deliver at all levels, including a high academic level.

- It is equally a commitment we feel that when you are designated as unique, also in research and science, it obligates us to be able to serve those who are interested in it, says the museum director.

However, the museum director does not dare to predict how many academically interested visitors will come.

- We have not been able to produce figures on whether it will be hundreds or thousands.

- But we are not unfamiliar with it, because Fur Museum receives relatively many researchers from both Denmark and abroad, says Per Lunde Lauridsen.

With the designation of both Knudeklinten on Fur and Hanklit on Mors, Denmark now has a total of 10 World Heritage sites.

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