The museum founded by Michael Ancher and his friends opened in 1928, and contains 1 500 paintings, drawings and sculptures by Skagen School artists. The painters, fascinated by the ever-changing light of the windswept landscape, came to work in Ska..

The painters, Michael and Anna Ancher came to live in the house in 1884. After the death of their daughter Helga, also a painter, in 1964, the house was carefully restored to recreate the atmosphere of creativity that permeated the place at the tim..

The poet and painter Holger Drachmann (1846-1908) lived in the house that he called Villa Pax from 1902 until his death. There are many paintings by Drachmann himself and by his friends from the Skagen School.

The open-air museum illustrates the hard life of Skagen's fishermen, who had to battle against the winds and the drifting sands in days gone by. You can see the house of a poor fisherman and that of a rich one side by side, as well as a section on sh..

The 14C church of St Lawrence, patron saint of sailors, was buried by drifting sand in the late 18C and closed by royal decree in 1795. In 1810 the nave was removed and today only the tower is visible, rising above the sand.