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Annually, the Center is visited by almost 250.000 visitors, of which between 65.000 and 70.000 also visit the centre's exhibitions
GeoCenter Møns Klint
GeoCenter Møns Klint is today one of the region's major tourist attractions, which during the season employs more than 50 employees, corresponding to almost 25 full-time employees. Annually, the Center is visited by almost 250.000 visitors, of whom between 65.000 and 70.000 also visit the centre's exhibitions. The center has great regional economic importance and, in addition to the directly generated economy, there have been significant secondary effects over the past 10 years. Analyzes show that 174 derived man-years have been created and that these have contributed approx. DKK 140 million in taxes and charges to society.
The GeoCenter Foundation Møns Klint owns the buildings and exhibitions and leases them to GeoCenter Møns Klint AS
Store Klint historical
One may well allow oneself to say that Møns Klint tourist-historical is one of the first many beautiful Danish natural areas to be discovered by 'the people'. The development was started during the Danish golden age, when artists such as PC Skovgaard and CW Eckersberg maintained the dramatic white cliffs in their characteristic and famous paintings, thereby helping to attract guests from near and far to Østmøn.
The meeting place has always been Store Klint, close to the 128 meter high Dronningestol, and here the necessary facilities have developed over more than a hundred years in line with the changing needs for service and communication over the different decades. In the beginning, there was only a small ruf, where the locals could eat the food they had brought with them. Later, a pavilion and a hotel were added, and the increased mobility through the 1960s meant that a cafeteria had to be set up, which could serve the many guests from home and abroad.
The dramatic white cliffs have also led to the desire to have this nature unusual for Denmark explained, and in connection with the growth of tourism in the 1960s, a small geological exhibition with a focus on on the formation of the chalk and the characteristic fossils from Møns Klint.
in 1980 sold Klintholm Gods Møns Klint and the associated pastures to the State. Since then, much has been done to secure the area's unique and vulnerable nature. in 1983, large parts of Møns Klint, the forest and excessive protected. Furthermore, it was Møns Klint in 1992 designated as an EU habitat area, which is a designation for specially protected areas for protected wild animals and plants as well as habitat types.
Through the 1980s, tourism grew further and gradually it became clear to the local area and those politically responsible that Store Klint had to have new up-to-date facilities if it was to be able to maintain economically sustainable tourism.
During the 1980s and 1990s, there were various efforts to modernize the area. But it was only when the area's primary stakeholders agreed to establish a steering group, with the aim of e.g. to establish a new dissemination centre, that there was a push in the realization plans.
The steering group consisted of 1 representative from the following organisations: The Forest and Nature Agency, Møn Municipality, Storstrøms County, Denmark's Nature Conservation Association, the Outdoor Council and Tourism Region South.
The steering group was able to maintain the collaboration, so that after 9 years, in 2007, 'the new Store Klint' could be inaugurated with the GeoCenter Møns Klint, as the natural service and communication focal point for the area's guests.
GeoCenter Møns Klint was inaugurated on 29 May 2007. The silk cord decorated with beech leaves was cut by Her Majesty Queen Margrethe the Second, who today is also the patron of the place.
The pavilion at Store Klint
The pavilion was built in 1895 by hotel owner RB Christensen and has functioned as a tractor station for Møn residents and guests from the old Maribo and Præstø counties, who were on their annual excursion in a horse-drawn carriage with a food basket
Coffee shop
Through the 1900s, tourism grew strongly and the need to serve the guests changed. Therefore, in 1969, an extension was built on the old pavilion, so that a usable cafeteria was obtained that could serve the many guests.
GeoCenter Møns Klint
The building was designed by PLH Arkitekter, who won the architectural competition in 2002, and the exhibitions were designed by Team Agitator and GODesign. 'Det nye Store Klint' was inaugurated on 29 May 2007
