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The permanent exhibition will inform about the Jelling monuments, their origin, their importance and the research which has been carried out for more than 400 years, since the end of the 1500s, when the importance of the magnificent monuments was understood.
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The aim of the exhibition is to explain the importance of the monuments as royal prestige buildings and monumental architecture. It also tells about the royal family, the Kingdom of Denmark - Norway, a king's acceptance of the new faith and about the old and new times for the people of the Viking Age.
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The Runic Park
Jelling has Europe's finest monuments from the Viking age: Denmark's two largest grave mounds, the two runis stones and two rows of bauta stones.
The small runis stone is King Gorm's stone in honour of his Queen Thyra. The large stone is King Harald Bluetooth's elaborately decorated in memorial stone in memory of his parents Gorm and Thyra and of his own great achievements: to unify the Danish kingdom and make the Danes Christian. The stone is therefore known as Denmark's birth certificate
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