Museum Silkeborg - Tollund ManMuseum Silkeborg's website. Read more about Tollundmanden. How he was found, how he died, and why he is so well preserved. He was found in Bjældskovdal Mose in 1950, and has been at Hovedgården in Silkeborg since 1952, to which thousands of people from all over the world make a pilgrimage every year to see him. A meeting with the Tollund man is a meeting with the past - face to face.