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Interactive outdoor energy experimentarium
The association aims for making Mother Mill accessible to the public. Mainly because the facility will be the focus of an exhibition on sustainable energy technologies in a planned "Juuls Museum" on the mill area.
The exhibition is complemented by an "interactive outdoor energy experimentarium". Here, visitors can activate nature's sustainable energy resources (wind/sun/water) in installations from art projects. The operation and maintenance of the reconstructed Gedser Wind Turbine will be financed by electricity generation from a new rotor, for which funds are being sought in parallel.
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Prelude to an Offshore Symphony and the planned energy experimentarium
The Gedser Ginkgo Soundgarden was inaugurated in 2018 as a prelude to the Offshore Symphony (composed by Frank Pecquet in 2016 as a tribute to Eolienne de Gedser). Where the windmill converts the wind into electricity, the wind sculptures in the Soundgarden convert the wind into melodic sounds. Ginkgo biloba trees are planted between the wind sculptures, hence the name Gedser Ginkgo Soundgarden. Gedser citizens, tourists and sailors (from Gedser Marina) provide natural and recycled materials for the creation of wind sculptures.
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Prelude to the planned Juuls Museum
Also in 2018, in collaboration with Gedser citizens, a gallery and a museum were set up in the property's converted stable building. If the planned Juuls Museum is built on the mill's own expanded land register, the stable building will be converted into a cafeteria.
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Andel Elmuseum has donated Juuls's patented low-voltage stove (1936) to Juul's Museum in Gedser
On September 12, 2023, the Juul low-voltage stove was picked up at the Elmuseum in Haslev, where employees had to get a forklift to transport the 120 kg stove onto the trailer. The return to Gedser went without any problems. However, a member of the association had to use his tractor (with a hoist) to safely carry Juul's stove into what is now the gallery and museum in the property's converted barn.
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Once approvals from the Coastal Directorate and financial support are received, Juul's stove will be transferred to the planned Juuls Museum in the cadastre of the Gedser wind turbine. Photo shows Alte Stromer Berlin at their visit, September 15, 2023.
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Andel's Elmuseum has also provided Juul's technical drawings for exhibition in the converted barn.
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Household appliances from the 1950s to 1950s
2022-23. The museum is taking shape. Association members contribute to the exhibition. Among other things, a Nilfisk vacuum cleaner and a high-voltage oven, donated by Ivan Heine Snedker.
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High-voltage Baking-oven incl. transformer.
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Closeup of transformer, manufactured by LK.
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Also donated by Ivan Heine Snedker: An instruction manual. However, partially destroyed by moisture and age but still readable.
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The frontpage of the instruction manual shows Juul's low-voltage stove. Juul's patented design was put into production by the company Lauritz Knudsen (LK) in 1934 and remained popular until the late 1950s.
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Portrait paintings of windmill pioneers and their inventions
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The exhibitions in the converted barn also include portrait paintings of wind power pioneers and their inventions. Above, you can see a portrait painting of the windmill pioneer Poul la Cour (known as "the Danish Edison"). Below, paintings of the french pioneer Georges Darrieus and the german pioneer Ulrich Hütter.
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Georges Jean Marie Darrieus (1888-1979). French engineer. Famous for his invention of the Darrieus rotor.
Source: wikipedia.orgk
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Ulrich Hütter (1910- 1990) was an Austro-German aeronautical engineer and university teacher who came to wider prominence through his second career as a pioneer of wind power technology.
Source: wikipedia.org
"The OEEC (predecessor to the OECD) established a wind power research group in 1950, and held several meeting of member nations to discuss wind power. Meetings on wind power were also held in 1954 by UNESCO and the World Power Conference. In 1961, a UN Conference on New Sources of Energy would attract many wind power experts, including Juul, Hütter and Jacobs.
These efforts gradually pushed the knowledge surrounding wind-generated electricity forward.
Juul's designs, for instance, were the first to use passive stall techiques to regulated turbine speed, and Hütter's turbines were the first to use lightweight fiberglass wind turbine blades."
Source: construction-physics.com
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Enough space for the gallery and the cafeteria
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Kitchen elements and a "modern type" stove for the planned cafeteria were also donated by members of the association.
In the background you can see a flower exhibition by the artist Ingrid Kristensen.
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