'Den Gamle By' is a wonderful open-air museum in the middle of Aarhus. Just like the Black Country Museum and Beamish the place is packed with original historic buildings restored and reconstructed on site.
Our favourite part is the 1970s world. It's sobering to reflect that our past has now become someone else's history lesson.
Some things don't change. A group of teenage boys on a school trip spend much time admiring the 'top-shelf' collection in this 1970s book and magazine shop.
Tame stuff by today's standards one suspects.
An apartment once occupied by an elderly couple. Their love for each other is reflected in the pristine accommodation decorated throughout with keep-sakes, nick-nacks and family memories.
The fact the apartment now stands empty lends a poignant note to the scene.
In contrast, the flat next door is occupied not by a couple but a group of Turkish immigrants seeking work so they can send back money to their families at home.
Despite their poverty their clothes are spotless, neatly pressed and in those bizarre shades of muddy brown so characteristic of 70s life.
The accommodation occupied by two teachers is far less spartan. Decorated in bright, bold colours and boasting several items of hi-fi equipment it points to a brighter future ahead.
The whirring projector in the next apartment brings back memories of the magical slide-shows my father presented in the living room of my childhood home.
Whilst he never made it to the 70s (he died in 1968) his treasured slides were rich in the same distinctive Kodak colour that so characterised that decade.
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