Viking Museum — Attraction in Aarhus Municipality

Viking Museum is a treasure trove of historical information. The entrance is easy to miss at the moment due to the renovation and lift partially obscuring the entrance. We happened to stumble on the sign posted outside welcoming to The Viking Museum. The museum is steps away from the Sankt Clemens Torv cathedral and offers a window into Aarhus' past. Found during excavation, there are four homes (huts) that were carefully extracted during an archeological dig since the mid-1990s. Some artifacts go back thousands of years and rightfully so. One can imagine the shoreline and past lives through the informative displays. Fee is 30K pp and children are free. Stop into the Viking Museum and support Aros historical society and...

This is probably not the Viking museum you are looking for. It's ok for a quick look, but it really is just a single room in the basement of a city building. It didn't even have a ticket attendant, just a machine. It features artifacts dug out on theb museum site and its surroundings. On Google maps you may see photos of magnificent Viking ships in a light airy white gallery - those ships are NOT here. Such photos are misplaced, they are images of the Viking museum in Roskilde. If you're nearby this museum do drop in, but don't travel a long way hoping to see grand ancient ships, they aren't here. This is a set of more mundane artifacts and some interesting graphic panels to put it all in context,...

A nice small museum with an interesting point of view: trying to depict the 800 year old buildings/ areas in real ancient times,where these were, and relate this to the places in the present. The fee is not high, but it is also only a small exhibition. Interesting the stairs at the entrance, leading ca. 2.3 m downstairs, to the level people lived in that ancient time, one stair covering approx. 30 to 50 years. I liked it, everything is available in Danish and English, some also in German One disadvantage is the opening hours: It is only open on a bankday, on the other hand it's a non-guarded museum, to keep the costs...