Gråbrødrekloster Museum

Traditionally Lindholm Høje was considered to be Aalborg’s predecessor, but a number of random finds and archaeological studies have shown that there was a Viking Age settlement from about 700 to 1000 at Bejsebakken on the southern edge of Aalborg. Thus, given that the oldest finds from Aalborg date to 1000, it’s not unreasonable to believe that the Bejsebakken settlement developed to become Aalborg. The very oldest part of Aalborg can be experienced right beneath your feet at Gråbrødrekloster Museum as an elevator lowers you through cultural layers a thousand years deep – these are the waste layers left by dwellers in all that time. This stratigraphy is revealed thought two layers of glass: bones and waste that haven’t degraded to humus, protrude from the ground. The museum chronicles the history of a Viking marketplace, which emerged in Aalborg in the late 900s. Among the objects in the exhibition you will also see the skull of a man who suffered a violent death around the year 1000. The museum is self-service. Access via the elevator in Salling’s warehouse entrance – Algade 19, Aalborg.