Facts about...

...The Dentures

delivered to the museum in the early 1970s - in a small white box, described: Hans Christian Andersen's disinfected teeth from the upper part of his mouth. Hans Christian Andersen got new dentures in March 1873 after loosing his last tooth in January that same year. One of Hans Christian Andersen's last fairy-tales, "Aunty Toothache", from 1872 is about toothache as well as dentures. 

 
 
Did you know that...

...The Museum collection contains the poet's shoe trees which measure 33 cm. That corresponds to a shoe size 47.

 
 

2 April 1964

Photo: The Hans Christian Andersen Museum/Odense City Museums

After Hans Christian Andersen's birthday on 2 April 1964, Danish, German, and French newspapers wrote about the Swedish, internationally known actress, Ingrid Bergman (1915-92) who had spellbound everybody by her "female grace, her bright smile, and her natural kindness". The actress read the fairy tale "Little Claus and Big Claus" and this was broadcast on Eurovision. The newspaper Information wrote, "She killed grandmothers with her peerless grace".