The Angel Garden at Skovgaard Museum
Experience the beautiful Angel Garden at Skovgaard Museum, where you can help create this year's Angel Garden. You can pick up an angel at the museum, on which you can write the name of the person you might be missing. The angels are then hung on Christmas trees in the garden.
Angel Garden
Angel Garden returns this year and officially opens on Friday, 28 November. The Skovgaard Museum once again transforms its beautiful museum garden into the luminous Angel Garden, which has become a very special tradition in Viborg. Angel Garden symbolises all those we miss and carry in our hearts on Christmas Eve.
You can help create the Angel Garden throughout December.
All visitors can receive a free angel, which is provided with the name of the person they miss. The angels are then hung on Christmas trees in the garden. The angels are inspired by Joakim Skovgaard's angels from his decoration of Viborg Cathedral.
Christmas at the Museum
This year, you can also meet the angels of Englehaven inside the museum, where we will display the angels from the past five years and decorate the museum's lower floor. From 14 November, you can take a journey through the past five years of greetings, which, with the help of the angels, have been sent off to the stars.
Signs of hope for children and families
In December, the communication room on the museum's lower floor will be transformed into a poetic angel workshop where light and darkness meet. Here you can experiment with shadows, shapes and movement and discover how the absence of light creates new images and stories. Seven angel figures are placed on blue podiums as small light stations, where you can play with flashlights and see the silhouettes of the angels grow and change on the walls and on paper.
On the fabric around you, you can see selected ‘Angels of Hope’ – children's drawings created by children and young people from all over the world. The children's angel drawings and messages form a radiant sea of angels that unfolds on long curtains and envelops the room with light, colours and dreams.
The angels can be picked up during the museum's opening hours Tuesday-Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The museum is closed on 23-26 and 31 December and 1 January 2026.
Admission is free for everyone in December.