Please Note: The Library Hall (and the exhibition) closes at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, May 20, due to a special event.

Open today 10-20

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The round tower is an old tower with many hidden nooks and crannies, so sometimes things are not exactly where you think they would be.

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A Car on the Spiral Ramp

Listen to the story about the time the German engineer Lorenzen decided to demonstrate the powers of his car by driving up the Round Tower’s Spiral Ramp. Duration: 4:56 minutes Read more about the car…

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Fell with a Screw

“I walked up through it I walked higher and higher up through it/ This man-made fell’s inner screw walk”, a young Greenlander sang in 1724, returning from a journey to far-off Denmark. It was the Round Tower that he sang about.

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