Pause before the facade and look upward. Each floor projects slightly beyond the one below, carried by visible beam ends and carved brackets. This was both skilled construction and a confident display on a prominent street in the old town.
The house was built around 1580 and is one of Middelfart's best-preserved Renaissance buildings. From 1705 to 1870 it served as an inn, welcoming travellers in a town animated by the ferry crossing. Imagine the mixture of sailors, merchants, officials and strangers passing through its rooms.
During restoration in 1927–28, well-preserved wall paintings were discovered upstairs. The house then became a museum. Its exhibitions now connect the building's own story with Middelfart's wider history, especially the relationship between the town, the Little Belt and the harbour porpoise hunt.