There’s a lot to see in the area around the Fisheries and Maritime Museum, so a trip to the Museum can be combined with other activities.
The white men
The nine-metre-high sculptures in white-painted concrete were created by Svend Viig Hansen on the occasion of the City of Esbjerg’s hundredth anniversary in 1994 and they were placed by the road Sædding Strandvej across from the museum in 1995.
The Memorial Park
The memorial park is at the roads Hjertingvej and Gravlundvej and consists of a granite rotunda where the names of the Esbjerg fishermen who have lost their lives fishing since 1900 are carved. A bronze sculpture is in the inner part of the rotunda. Its central motif is intended as an expression of the qualities which distinguish fishermen in their daily activities on the sea, namely helpfulness and comradeship. The two figures at the sides of the monument, a woman and a woman with child, symbolise the basic human values which the fishermen were setting out for: the home and the child. The monument and the design of the surroundings were created by the architect H.G. Skovgaard and the landscape architect C.Th. Sørensen. The sculptures were created by the sculptor Aug. Keil. The monument was opened on 6 November 1949.
The Brille lakes
The two hectare plantation around the Brille lakes across from the Fisheries and Maritime Museum has long been a popular tourist attraction in association with visits to the museum or a trip to the beach with “the white men”.
