AARHUS, Denmark: The Old Town and Viking Museum
Posted by: kirsty_wilson in Europe, tags: Beaches, City, Denmark, Medieval Town, Museum, VikingsWhere is Aarhus?
Aarhus Old Town
Aarhus is Denmark’s second largest city and is a busy industrial and commercial centre on the east coast of Jutland where the Aarhus River flows out into Aarhus Bay. There’s plenty to see in Aarhus ranging from the beaches, nearby woodlands, the towns many parks, Viking Museum, the 12th century cathedral and the most well known, ‘Aarhus Old Town’.
The Old Town is an open air museum in which construction began during 1909 in the southern area of the Botanical Gardens. It comprises 75 historical houses, exhibitions, gardens, shops and workshops. The buildings have been collected from a number of Danish towns, dismantled and re-erected for the purpose of preserving history. The museum is a living experience of what it was like to live and work in a Danish market town some 500 years ago. It is full of character and charm and a must see if in Denmark.
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One great reason to visit Aarhus is to visit ‘The Old Town’.
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Good choice Kirsty. I love the “open-air” museums that are dotted about the scandinavian countries !
Some day I will go to Aarhus
To see his peat-brown head
from ‘The Tollund Man’ by Seamus Heaney – http://www.tollundman.dk/heaney.asp
Wikipedia tells us that “The Tollund Man is the naturally mummified corpse of a man who lived during the 4th century BC… He was found in 1950 buried in a peat bog on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark”
You can see him just down the road from Aarhus in the Silkeborg Museum.
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