Between Heaven and Earth

Between Heaven and Earth is Royal Danish Library's new special exhibition, where the history of magic emerges from the darkness of the collections for the first time as a shared narrative. The doors are opened to rare books of sorcery, alchemical writings, occult photographs and ritual objects – works that have been hidden from the public for generations.

In seven sensuous rooms, the library's most mysterious treasures are brought to life. The recipe for the Philosopher's Stone; the story of the mermaid captured in Borneo; original books of sorcery written in code and enigmatic signs; spirit photographs from the early 1900s with ectoplasm and floating tables; manuals for divination and future prophecies, protective amulets - and unique works from the Middle Ages transport the viewer into a completely different time. Let your imagination run wild and at the same time learn about magic and the meaning of magic from past to present.

Dannie Druehyld's workshop

The exhibition also houses a real witch's workshop. For more than 40 years, the witch Dannie Druehyld lived in Rold Skov, where she had her workshop filled with herbs, rarities and magical objects. In collaboration with Dannie Druehyld's daughter, Marie Druehyld, the exhibition recreates a piece of the original workshop that Dannie Druehyld used until her death in 2021. It is a special and rare opportunity to see how one of the few witches from our time worked.

Join us on a journey through tjousands of years of fascination with what might exist between heaven and earth.

The exhibition is supported by

Aage and Johanne Louis-Hansen's Foundation / Augustinus Foundation / Knud Højgaard's Foundation / Handelsgartner Harry Opstrup's Foundation / Consul George Jorck and Wife Emma Jorck's Foundation / William Demant Foundation.