LATEST NEWS FROM THE VIKING MUSEUM LADBY

Visiting the Viking Museum Ladby during summer 2023, will give you lots of impressions. During summer season the museum offers viking experiences for all ages. Viking summer: Holiday activities for the whole family During weekdays in July and until August 18 you can...

The Viking Museum Ladby is now ready for the high season with a new and bigger museum shop. Employees, volunteers and partners of the museum were invited to the opening of the new museum shop on Monday, 8th May. After an extensive remodelling the shop is now ready to...

The Museum’s Viking Ship, The Ladby Dragon, sails several trips during summer 2023 with the ship’s crew of volunteers of Ladby ship’s guild. While these trips are taking place, the ship will not berth at the Viking Museum’s pier as usual, but can be seen in other...

On Saturday 13 May 2023, the season at the Viking Museum Ladby kicks off with an open house at the museum.The Viking Museum opens its doors to an eventful day with lots of activities and life at the museum.The many volunteers will be ready with good stories, and...

Now you can hop on the bus and be driven right to the door when you visit the Viking Museum Ladby! The summer bus drives all seven days of the week in weeks 27-31. The route stretches from Fyns Hoved on Hindsholm to the Viking Museum Ladby south of Kerteminde...

Through forests, over burial mounds in the search of the strong women of the olden age ... and up until now Free storytelling workshop at local ancient tombs on North and East Funen In June, you can go hunting in the vicinity of Kerteminde, Nyborg,...

Saturday 21 May from 10 am to 2 pm the Ladby King sets all sails at the Viking Museum Ladby. Here you can meet all of the museum's volunteering groups, who work on the museum's many different Viking projects. Come and hear, see, smell, feel how the old Viking crafts...

A recently published book from Syddansk Universitetsforlag with the title From Central Space to Urban Place sheds new light on the formation of Odense in the Viking Age. In the book you can read about how Odense originated as a city around the year 900 AD in a...

Visit the Viking Museum during the Easter holidays, Monday the 11th to Monday the 18th of April, and hear about how brute warriors and beautiful women used jewellery and amulets for everyday life and parties as well as participate in two exciting children's...

During these years, the Viking Museum Ladby is working hard developing vivid presentation environments. That is why we are now looking for volunteers for a garden group that will plant, look after, and present "Frej's Nyttehave" - ​​a popular utility garden with...

The Viking Museum Ladby has just received a nice donation of as much as 150,000 DKK from Kerteminde Museumsforening. It will now be possible to archaeologically investigate the area around the burial mound. Here lies a burial mound from the Viking Age of which 11...

The Danish royal line starts with Gorm the Old, but we don't really know much about him, so why does the royal line actually start with him? And can it be, that there are no Danish kings before Gorm? In a new DR 2 series, host Cecilie Nielsen goes on a hunt to find...

After work lecture on the Christmas of the Vikings at the Viking Museum Ladby. The first three Wednesdays in December you can experience a different Christmas event at the Viking Museum Lady. You will have the opportunity to experience lectures at after work hours on...

The Ladby King's Warrior Weekend 25-26 September. Finally - after a 2-year corona break - the Viking Museum Ladby is once again hosting the Ladby King's Warrior Weekend - an experience for both old and young. The weekend of 25-26 September, the museum has gathered...

The soil north of Ullerslev has for 3.000 years been hiding rich sacrificial items from the Bronze Age. Several heavy necklaces and other women's jewellery were around the year 1100 BC sacrificed here. They have now entered into the light of present day. Fragments of...

As something completely new, the Viking Museum Ladby exhibits a horse riding prince tomb from Rosenlund at Langeskov. "The new Viking tomb" and the Ladby King's burial ship are reconstructed in the basement of the museum. The original burial findings from both the...

Viking activities between burial mound and inlet It is buzzing with life by the inlet this summer. Each Monday through Thursday during the schools' summer holidays, there are cozy and exciting Viking activities for the whole family at the Viking Museum Ladby. Try your...

Not all cities have a historical museum. Langeskov, for instance. But it's not because Langeskov doesn't have an interesting history or citizens who are interested in this history. This certainly stands out, when Kulturarvsboxen is visiting the city. Since the...

East Funen detectors are some of the best in Denmark. Three out of a total of six special metal findings from the yearbook "The National Museum's Working Field" come from East Funen. And we are very proud of that.  Every year, the National Museum publishes the...

In a wide track across all of Funen, archaeologists have carried out Funen's longest archaeological excavation prior to the construction of the Baltic Pipe.  Skeletons, a horse skull, pottery and cooking pits. All items that can tell us more about our Funen ancestors....