“Stop Slavery!”

For nearly 250 years Denmark was a colonial power in the West Indies, now known as the US Virgin Islands. 2017 marks the centenary of the sale of the West Indies to the United States and a number of museums in and around Copenhagen have used this occasion to shed light on Denmark’s colonial past. Delve into the enlightening and diverse exhibitions. At The Workers Museum the colonial history of Denmark is used as the point of departure for a broader exhibition on human enslavement.