The Mjessing House is from the village of Mjessing near Skanderborg in the eastern part of Jutland. It was built in 1770 as the village’s first school.

It originally had only two rooms, a school room and a room in which the teacher lived. The school was closed in 1822 and the house became the home of a smallholder. In the period 1936-1968 it was used as a museum in Mjessing, housing the collection of shoemaker Ansgar Andersen, a then well-known collector.

A village painter’s workshop from 1900 is now in the east end of the building. The painter prepared his materials in the workshop, but the painting as such was mainly done on site at local farms.