The Viking Museum Ladby — Attraction in Kerteminde Kommune

What a fantastic place! Awesome little gift shop with a wide range of souvenir ideas, museum if full of little known facts and many replicas and recovered pieces. The attractions continue to behind the museum, down a woodchip pathway to the 'viking ship graveyard' where you will find the ship grave entombed under a hill with an automatic set of doors that open once you push the button.. terrified both of us if I'm honest but would be less scary in a group. It seems some of the museum staff were also involved in building a full-scale ship, which was available for viewing in a green shed about 10 metres further. Looked genuinely authentic and very impressive. The woman (apologies for not asking a name) on duty was very helpful and friendly, despite being a bit under the weather. We both absolutely loved this place and all the great gifts I managed to find in the store. Would definitely recommend a visit to anyone passing through Funen looking for a great way to spend a few hours and learn some interesting facts about...

We visited the museum on the day the Lady Ladby was being launched into the water for 2019 (May 16th).

The museum was very quite that afternoon when we arrived and we weren't sure exactly what was there. We eventually figured out the museum and the downstairs video, and then went to see the burial mound.

Inside the burial mound it was pretty dark for photographs, but we discovered if the door to the chamber was open, then the glass around the ship gave off a blue-ish light that made pictures look really cool.

When we were leaving, we noticed that many people were arriving and some were dressed in viking costumes. When we asked the docents if something was going on they told us about the launching that would happen a couple hours later.

We came back for the launching and the...

The museum seeks to sit on two chairs at the same time without success: The focus of the museum is the story of the ship as well as contemporary viking society. The presentations are mostly mediated towards the younger audience, but lacks immersion to be truly entertaining as well complexity to be truly educating. The well preserved ship is the true master piece of the museum, but a modern visitor would expect more than a dark dungeon encasing the ship, which gives the museum a somewhat 'dusty' atmosphere. The general surroundings of the museum(especially the fiord in the 'backyard') are definitly able to provide visitors a more interesting experience, if the museum sought to include these in future...