Curated category
Viking Age museums
- Viking Ship Museum (Oslo)The Viking Ship Museum on the Bygdøy peninsula in Oslo holds something that most museums can only dream of: a burial ship so completely preserved it stands…
- Sagnlandet LejreSagnlandet Lejre sits on the island of Zealand in Denmark, just 4 km northwest of the town of Lejre and 1 km west of Gammel Lejre.
- Ladby shipThe Ladby ship rests at the village of Ladby, close to Kerteminde in Denmark. It is the only ship burial from the Viking Age ever discovered within the…
- Lindholm HøjeArchaeologists have opened 589 of the roughly 700 graves cut into the hillside at Lindholm Høje, a burial ground north of Aalborg, Denmark.
- Lofotr Viking MuseumLofotr Viking Museum stands on a windswept hill on the island of Vestvågøya, in Norway's Lofoten archipelago, where an 83-metre longhouse once ruled the…
- Foteviken MuseumThe Foteviken Museum marks its entrance with a sign the staff call a border gate. It sits on the museum map as the line where Sweden ends and a reconstructed…
- Jorvik Viking CentreJorvik Viking Centre sits beneath the streets of York, England, built on ground that once held one of the most remarkably preserved Viking settlements ever…
- BirkaBirka disappeared so thoroughly that no one today knows what the Vikings who lived there actually called it. The settlement stood on Björkö, an island in…
- L'Anse aux MeadowsL'Anse aux Meadows sits on the northernmost tip of Newfoundland, and it holds a secret that rewrote the story of who first crossed the Atlantic.
- Jelling stonesThe word "Danmark" appears on the Jelling stones in two different runic forms, carved in a small Danish town more than a thousand years ago.
- National Museum of DenmarkThe National Museum of Denmark, known in Danish as Nationalmuseet, holds 14,000 years of human history within its walls in central Copenhagen.