Location: Roskilde
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6 Specialty Museums in Roskilde That You Shouldn't Miss
Home to the four-day Roskilde Festival, arguably the best European rock festival, hilly Roskilde is less than 20 miles from Copenhagen. If hordes of rock stars aren't pillaging the town of 50,000, the excellent Viking ship museum is Roskilde's prime attraction. Featuring five ships discovered at the bottom of the fjord, you can add to the Viking experience by rowing the fjord on an hour-long longboat trip. The town is also famed for its much adapted 12th-century Roskilde Domkirke Cathedral.
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1. Viking Ship Museum
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4.5 based on 1,858 reviews
Warships await you at the Viking Ship Museum. Don't worry, they won't open fire. This museum is dedicated to education about boat building, archaeology and Viking life. It's a favorite among kids, and visitors of all ages can take to the water in traditional vessels. Open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. seven days a week, until 5 p.m. in summer months.
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Don’t miss this amazing educational, informational and interactive opportunity to learn everything about Vikings. Ships, ropes, sails, costumes, tools, a boat ride out into the Sea, build your own miniature ship, watch blacksmiths work metal with bellows and anvil. Five authentic ships excavated and saved from the channel. Very nice gift shop. Museum exhibitions and films on the recovery of the five ancient ships. Great for adults, kids, families.
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3. Lutzhofts Kobmandsgard
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4.5 based on 29 reviews
Lutzhøfts Købmandsgard is both a museum, but also a little store. More than 1,000 different items are available in the store, and the goods are copies of the original range in 1920. You are welcome to go behind the counter and look into the merchant's office as well as in the back room of grain, feed and grain weight. In the yard the warehouses from the 1700s and 1800s, where you can experience the atmosphere of the days when cobblestones, carriages and free-range chickens which were part of the urban environment.
4. Roskilde Museum
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4.0 based on 63 reviews
Roskilde Museum in the center of Roskilde City, is housed in two of the city's oldest historic houses - "Sukkerhuset" and "Liebes Gard". At the museum you can in a modern and interactive exhibtion experience the dramatic history of the city and the cultural heritage of the region through unique archaeological finds and exciting newer objects. You are also close to the story of one of Denmark's oldest and most important cities - a history of national importance. In addition to the museum's exhibitions, the museum offers year round an exciting and varied event program for all age groups and interests. At the museum you will also find a museumshop and a cafe
5. RAGNAROCK - Museet for pop, rock og youth culture
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4.0 based on 167 reviews
RAGNAROCK, listed on National Geographic 2017 bucketlist of the 15 must-sees museums in the world, is Denmark's national and cultural contemporary museum in Roskilde. With music as the focal museum traces the history of youth culture from the 1950s until now. RAGNAROCK is a vibrant cultural center with an ambitious event program, concerts, a cafe, a fascinating museum shop and temporary exhibitions besides the permanent exhibitions.
