Curated playlist
Viking Age museums
- Viking Ship Museum (Oslo)Oslo's Viking Ship Museum holds the largest known ship burial ever excavated. Reopening is not planned until 2027.
- Sagnlandet LejreFamilies spend a week living in a reconstructed Iron Age village in Denmark.
- Ladby shipThe Ladby ship is the only Viking Age ship burial found inside Denmark's modern borders.
- Lindholm HøjeDrifting sand buried a Danish Viking settlement around 1200. That sand also shielded its graves for centuries.
- Lofotr Viking MuseumIn 1983, archaeologists in Norway found the largest Viking Age building ever discovered there.
- Foteviken MuseumFoteviken Museum has a border gate where Sweden ends and a Viking Age settlement begins.
- Jorvik Viking CentreJorvik Viking Centre in York is built right over a dug-up Viking street.
- BirkaNo one today knows what the Vikings of Birka called their own town. It stood on an island west of modern Stockholm.
- L'Anse aux MeadowsL'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland is the only undisputed Norse site in the Americas outside Greenland.
- Jelling stonesEvery Danish passport shows a carving of Christ from a Jelling runestone.
- National Museum of DenmarkTwo gold horns in Denmark's National Museum are only copies. The originals were stolen and melted down in 1802.