June 16, 2010
By Felicia R. Lee
Elvis Presley’s Graceland estate in Memphis is being duplicated in Denmark and is set to open in 2011 as part of a Presley museum, Agence France-Presse reported. Workers laid the first brick on Tuesday in the small western town of Randers, which already has an Elvis Presley museum that opened 15 years ago and now receives around 25,000 visitors a year.
The Danish Graceland is an “exact copy” of the Memphis estate, the Presley museum director, Henrik Knudsen, said in an interview with the news agency. It will include some 6,000 of Presley’s possessions, including clothes, boots, guitars, letters and contracts, Mr. Knudsen said. In addition, the new museum will have a shop, a restaurant and a theater that will screen films about Presley on a loop. The town’s tourist office estimated that between 75,000 and 125,000 visitors a year would make the pilgrimage to yet another homage to the King.
Article Source: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/the-king-gets-his-castle-in-denmark/
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