In Nykøbing there is a street -Østergade. The street is 600 meters long. Here live and lived some of the poorest and richest people on the island. Else Mathiassen was born in the old hospital. Now she lives in the residence obliquely opposite. Here the doctors to the east lived in the larger apartments and the nurses to the west in the smaller ones. The dividing line of the street between the richest and the poorest went right through this house.
Østergade is a street that, with side streets, contains the history of Else, her family and her city. The history of the provincial town, the citizen, has many names: Korsbæk or Jante or... In Else's tale it is Nykøbing.
Else Mathiassen: Narrator, dancer and lecturer. Head of the “Tell the Academy” Mors High School. Former high school superintendent.
The lecture consists of two parts, first a lecture at the Støberimuseet and then a walk through Østergade.
Lectures and guided street walks
Museum Mors is a state-recognized cultural history and geological museum with geographical responsibility for Morsø Municipality. The museum was founded in 1901 and moved in 1909 to Dueholm Kloster, where it still has its main address and administration. The old market town museum was expanded from the 1980s with several departments. In 2025, the museum consists of Dueholm Monastery, Morsø Local History Archive, Fossil and Moler Museum and Foundry Museum.