Take your children, grandchildren, nieces or nephews by the hand and explore together in the world of Ovartaci.

Our tour guide takes you on an exciting tour through the exhibition, where you together discover Ovartaci's exciting universe of hybrids and different creatures. Along the way, we talk about the paintings you see and how Ovartaci got the ideas for the many worlds he created in his art.

The tour lasts approx. an hour, and we recommend that you set aside time to immerse yourself in the exhibition on your own afterwards.

There are 20 tickets for the tour, which are sold on a first-come, first-served basis.

The price is DKK 75 to participate in the tour in addition to entrance to the museum (DKK 95). Children under 18 have free entry when accompanied by an adult.

During the Autumn Break (week 42) our Children & Youth workshop is open for creative activities.

So, bring your children or grandchildren and spend some time together making animals of pinecones or colourful frottages (rubbing prints) with leaves.

We look foreward to seeing you

ABOUT – an association about the artist Ovartaci

On 14 October you can experience a talk which mixes knowledge and art and sends you on a fast-paced journey of associations about the artist Ovartaci. The event takes place at Syddjurs Egnsteater - in KulturHotellet's café.

On stage, passionate experts and artists take you through mini-lectures and artistic features. Each has exactly 10 minutes to share their angle.

Host and actress Line Bie Rosenstjerne will guide you through the evening.

ABOUT is like letting your finger flick through a vivid encyclopaedia, where both knowledge and art come to life.

Please note that the talks are in Danish.

Speakers: Georg Schwarz, Museum Ovartaci – Ovartaci’s history

Singer Lise Dres – Songs – text from Ovartaci’s poems

Head nurse Jan Møller Nielsen - Schizophrenia

Actress Rikke Lylloff – Ovartaci’s word

Biologist Jens Redersen – The dust on the wings of a butterfly and other myths

Lecturer Erik Exe Christoffersen – Art and madness 

Director Magnus Grøner Errboe – Making art about an artist

Ticket for DKK 50,-

On 15 October at 19:00 and 16 October at 17.00 and 19:00 you have the opportunity of a very special theatre experience. In close collaboration with Syddjurs Egnsteater and Hakkehuset, the museum presents the performance The mind is a Butterfly in Festsalen at Bindesbøll Byen.

The Mind is a Butterfly invites the audience to enter Ovartaci's magical universe, where the mind moves like a butterfly through the stages of transformation and where the power of art transforms the clinically clean hospital room into a living landscape of colours, shapes and music. The audience is invited on a journey through Ovartaci's mind, where reality and fantasy merge in a playful and sensual staging.

The performance balances between the imaginative and limit-breaking mind and the child's play universe. To the adults, the story appears as a depiction of a vulnerable mind, where the boundaries between reality and hallucination dissolve. Children, on the other hand, will reflect themselves in imagination and play, where everything seems possible, while young people will be able to reflect themselves in the play with identities, where creative forms of expression provide an unprejudiced freedom. The performance speaks to both the analytical adult and the imaginative child and explores topics such as psychological resilience, identity and transformation.

Please note that the play is in Danish.

There is a limited number of tickets so don’t hesitate too long.

Thursday 24 October, Museum Ovartaci invites you to a book launch of a new large monograph about Ovartaci. Author and lecturer Anne Valbjørn Odgaard has written this the first comprehensive work about the artist Ovartaci.

The book partly narrates the artist's life in a chronological form and places his work in a larger context of art, culture and psychiatric history, and partly presents a broad selection of the artist's works. Important themes such as gender, identity and madness unfold the book.

The book launch is marked with a reception at Museum Ovartaci on Thursday 24 October at 16-17. You can meet the author and get your very own copy of the book signed.

The book launch is open to the public.

The book is available in the Museum webshop from 11. October

8 October, the exhibition Ovartaci: Art and life events – The (un)forgotten Sketches opened at Maltfabrikken in Ebeltoft. It is a great pleasure for the museum to be able to present Ovartaci's art at an exhibition in Ebeltoft - his hometown. The exhibition can be experienced independently of or as a supplement to the special exhibition at Museum Ovartaci: Ovartaci ≠ Isolotto. Both exhibitions focus on atypical and lesser-known works by Ovartaci and give the audience the opportunity to create a more nuanced view of Ovartaci as an artist. So do stop by Ebeltoft to experience Ovartaci at home.

A day around Ovartaci

Saturday 26. October at 11-18 you can come close to Ovartaci, when the museum together with Maltfabrikken invite you to an exciting day around the homeboy Ovartaci.

During the day the following three events take place:

11:00 -12:00 · Ovartaci’s Life and universe

Talk between Mia Lejsted, museum director Museum Ovartaci, og Kristian Krog, director Maltfabrikken

Place: Støbesalen, Maltfabrikken, Ebeltoft

14:00 -15:30 · GENDER

Presentation and discussion by Brian Benjamin Hansen, docent VIA University College and Marie Bendtsen, psychologist and gender theorist

Place: Støbesalen, Maltfabrikken, Ebeltoft

17:00-18:00 · Tales of Ovartaci

Lecture with Brian Benjamin Hansen followed by interview with Kristian Krog as well as inauguration and premiere of sound and video installation about Dalstrup by Brian Benjamin Hansen, Anders Ruby and Georg Schwarz

Place: Kølle 1, Maltfabrikken, Ebeltoft

And don’t forget! – on 8 November at 15-18 the museum invites you to a plant dying workshop for children at Spiren, Maltfabrikken to mark the children’s culture night.

Museum Ovartaci has made a partnership with Earth Miles, which is a bonus program for everybody, who use sustainable forms of transportation. At the museum, we focus on sustainable behaviour in everything we do, so the partnership with Earth Miles is a natural extension of the efforts we have at the museum.

To use Earth Miles, you download the app and registering as a member and you are well on your way to earning bonus points, which you can exchange amongst others for a discount on the entrance fee to Museum Ovartaci.

Right now, the Museum Shop is packed with activities for the Autumn break or a quiet moment with a good book.

If you're into fun and games, you can compete against family and friends in Jenga, Shut the box, flip game or the escape room game: The mysterious museum.

If you like to play and have fun, we offer creative DIY sets for every age and creative interest such as making bats like the ones seen right now in the special exhibition Ovartaci ≠ Isolotto.

Or how about making the most delicious candies like the ones Ovartaci fed his guardian spirit the Sinhu horse with. Or make the most beautiful cheat doughnuts, just like the cheat cakes you could experience in the performance ‘Lyden af ​​en fandens fantast’.

If you are looking for a quiet time with a good book, you will find, among other things, Michael Kamber's fantastic book ‘Gå godt’ about the joy of walking and gaining a deeper understanding of what walking does to us humans.

Walks and walking brings us back to man's two-legged history and reveals that there is a connection between walking and the fact that it "goes well". Our organism thrives best when we are in motion. We think and remember better and get more brain cells when we walk. Our senses are calibrated to walking pace. We experience and recognize the world most intensely when we are not moving too fast. It is also about regaining the pace of walking. Both in everyday life and in a larger perspective. And the author's walks in the company of follow walkers such as Bente Klarlund Pedersen, Tor Nørretranders and Rane Willerslev add new and surprising perspectives to the importance of walking.

Members of Friends of Museum Ovartaci help ensure the continued existence of the museum and help make a difference by eliminating prejudices and create an understanding of mental illness through art and history of art.

In other words: Museum Ovartaci needs you!

As a member of Friends of Museum Ovartaci you get special benefits. You will be invited to events, openings, pre-views, special friend-events and a discount to selected events. Furthermore, a membership in Museum Ovartaci’s Friends grants free admission to the museum. Membership price 225 DKK per year.
Sign up and become a part of Museum Ovartaci’s Friends by following the link below.