The Viking Museum in Aarhus

You wouldn’t see it if you didn’t know it was there. 50m south of the cathedral, in the basement beneath the Nordea Bank building on Skt. Clemens Torv, lies a small museum dedicated to the Aros of the Viking Age. The bank is quite literally built on top of the Viking town, so each of the steps you take to descend the 3m beneath the ground feels like a journey back in time. Here you can see ramparts, plank roads and huts in the places where they were built. Archaeologists excavated the site in 1963-64, which was the first time they acquired proper knowledge of the town in the Viking Age. In the exhibition you can learn more about Aros as it looked around the year 980, the time of King Harald Bluetooth.