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Denmark's National Museum in Copenhagen has exhibitions from the Stone Age, the Viking Age, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and Modern Danish History.

The National Museum is located in The Prince’s ...

Children's Museum in Copenhagen has special offerings for children ages four to 10. The museum is ideal for family visits as well as institutions.

At the Children's Museum start your journey in time ...

History is for sale here. The shop offers many great gift-ideas, books on archaeology, replicas modelled on the Museum's original pieces, jewellery, swords etc. All items are somehow connected to the ...

In the Lindholm Høje Museum in Aalborg you will find two exciting exhibitions about the Vikings on Lindholm Høje and the antiquity around the Limfjord. Try sailing a Viking ship and visit a Vikings ho...

Experience the atmosphere in the old convent, which tells a story about monks and nuns, brave knights and fair maidens. See the many old and well-preserved items that generations of locals have protec...

Nymindegab Museum is an open air exhibition with family activities during  summer. See the skeleton of a stranded sperm whale. Visit the saw mill and the small house of the carpe...

How did the Vikings live? And how did they travel around? Take a journey 1000 years back in time!

Many brave boys and girls have since the opening of Bork Vikingehavn in the year 2000 been able to t...

Invite the family for coffee in the nice rooms, or make a reservation for the famous omelette-evenings at the little inn! Fahl Kro (Inn) is an old 4 winged thatched farm. In the inn you can ...

The museum is establised in an old farmhouse, with exhibitions showing how a fairly rich family lived in the 1800´s, with authentical furniture and china.During the season the whole family can tr...

Silkeborg Museum is housed in the oldest building in Silkeborg dating from 1767. The house has been used for privat home, church, school, post office and day care. Today it is the museum of the r...

Museum Østjylland - Cultural History Museum Randers was founded in 1872, making it one of the oldest and biggest local museums in Denmark. The exhibitions tell the story of life in the area from the f...

Gylling Kirke consists of a chancel and nave from the end of the 12th century, a late-medieval porch and a mid-16th century stilted tower.The church contains several well-preserved grave sto...

A personal museum, with changing exhibitions, offering an artistic and cultural experience and an interesting meeting with nature. The museum is created by the storyteller Gunnar Iversen and artist Su...

Jelling is home to Europe’s finest Viking-Age monuments: Denmark’s two largest grave mounds and two runic stones erected by the kings Gorm the Old and Harald Bluetooth in the eighth century. In 1994, ...

Royal Jelling - Kongernes Jelling - is a visitor’s centre under the auspices of the National Museum of Denmark. The centre relates the story of the Jelling Monuments, created by Viking-age King Gorm t...

The Museum Ribe's Vikings is beautifully situated in central Ribe overlooking the river Ribe Å. Experience the Viking era and the Middle Ages. Thousands of artifacts found during archeological excavat...

Take a journey 1300 years back in time, when the Vikings ruled Ribe. In Ribe VikingeCenter there is no glass to separate you from the adventures. History is real and you are part of it!

Brings the Vi...

What is the Ladby Ship?

It is Denmark’s only ship grave from the Viking period. Around 925 AD, the king of Ladby was buried in his ship, which was 21.5 meters long and 3 meters wide. A burial mound w...

An archaelogical area situated in the Southern part of Langeskov, which have been populated in more than 2000 years. The planting consists of tree sorts as in the Iron Age. Today the diggings have bee...

The medieval building, Helligåndshuset - "House of the Holy Spirit" - served in former times as a combined hospital, old people's home and poorhouse.After a thorough restoration in 1926-27 i...

County Museum in Maribo you will find the impressing old museum building from the year 1890. Several exhibitions with their roots in the history of the area is shown in the old museum. Among others yo...

The Maritimt Forsøgscenter (the Maritime Research Centre) offers sailing by viking ships. No pre-knowledge needed as there will be instructors on board.

The passengers play an active part in the sai...

Open on weekdays....

Learn about the vikings, their ships and their cruises at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde. The museum offers public guided tours every day during the summer season and selected holidays in Danish a...

The town museum of Roskilde tells the story of one of the most important towns of Denmark and of the area around Roskilde and Lejre from prehistoric times to the present day.

The museum received a N...

Roskilde Cathedral is inscribed on the UNESCO world heritage list. It is a unique and beautiful medieval cathedral. The Viking kings Harold Bluetooth (d. 985) and his son, Sweyn Forkbeard (d. 1014) co...

Frederikssund VikingebopladsThe Frederikssund archaeological settlement is a historically accurate, reconstructed village showing how the Vikings worked, rested and played. Sunken houses, a ...

Lejre Museum is located in Gl. Lejre, about 10 km southwest of Roskilde in the middle of a historically unique landscape, which has been protected by law since 1992.

The historic landscape shows over...

The Land of Legends offers new sustainable conference rooms with ultramodern AV equipment. A range of packages including meals are available for meetings for 2 - 80 persons. 

Vibrant Vikings and Iron...

Near Lejre a chieftains tomb was found.Two rows of highstanding stones in the form of a ship from the Viking period - one of the largest tombs of its kind in Scandinavia.Roski...

Odder Museum is situated right in the centre of Odder in a lovely green area close to the high street of Odder. The area is a great cultural environment with the historical Odder Water and Steam Mill....

Housed in the oldest house in Hobro, from 1821. The history of the region. From market town to industrial centre. The Fyrkat findings....

The Viking Museum is a window to the Viking town of Aros.
Some 1200 years ago the Vikings founded Aarhus – at the very same spot and level where The Viking Museum is situated in the basement underneat...

Learn about the vikings, their ships and their cruises at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde! Public guided tours every day in the peak season in Danish or English. 

The public guided tours are free ...

The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde offers an incredible insight into the world of the Vikings and their era. You will be amazed by the five original Viking vessels from the 11th-century, as well as "T...

The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde is the Danish museum for ships, seafaring and boatbuilding culture in ancient and medieval times. The Viking Ship Hall, the oldest part of the museum, was designed b...

1-2 December, 8-9 December & 15-16 December 2012

Visit the Viking Ship Museum for some holiday fun.

There will be a Christmas bazaar and activities for the children at the museum shop. Test your kn...

The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde offers plenty of exciting activities for adults and children!

E.g.:
- Launching of the viking ships (always first weekend of April)
- Landing of the viking ships (...

Land of Legends is the land you must explore. It is a 106 acre archaeological open air museum located in the Lejre Municipality, few kilometers west of Roskilde.

Land of Legends comprises reconstruc...

The Land of Legends is the land, you MUST explore. Here you can sense 15,000 years living past and meet your ancestors in the Stone Age settlement, the Iron Age village, the Viking area or in the that...

Land of Legends is an outstanding excursion spot for the family where you experience bygone times in the flesh and chat to the Grauballe Man's cousin.

Recurring events:
- Meet the animals
- Tales for...

Experience 1000 years’ Christmas spirit in the Land of Legends from the Vikings’ celebration of solstice to Christmas in your great-great-grandmother’s childhood.

You can visit the historic workshop...

The island of Alrø in Horsens fiord can be reached by car over a 1 km long dam which was constructed in 1929. The island is 7 km long and 5 km wide.

It has been inhabited since the stoneage and alon...

Rock'n'Gold is all about skulls and viking age art. You can even design your own personalised jewellery.

On Læderstræde close to Strøget you will find the jewellery maker Rock'n'Gold, where you can ...

The Viking Village in Albertslund, just outside Copenhagen, is a historical place located with a beautiful view of Store Vejleådalen.

In the village, you will find three small houses and a unique far...

Local museum placed in an old building from about 1619.

From April 1 - ist clossed for renovation...

Trelleborg - monument - museum - and centre of experience. Just to the west of Slagelse you will find one of Denmark's most important and very beautifully situated monuments from the Viking age. ...

In Ravning Enge, you will find a reconstruction of two pier heads from the mighty bridge established by Harald Bluetooth across Vejle river valley in the year 979. The bridge was 760 ms long and ...

Odder has been inhabited for centuries and in this exhibition we take a closer look at the discoveries made in the coastal area.
At the same time the audience will learn more on how the archaelogist ...