The Viking Museum
One of the best places to go to get an impression of the city's original size, location and early development, is the Viking Museum which is housed in the basement of Nordea Bank at Clemens Torv. It would not be wrong to say that Århus’ birth certificate is located in this basement.

When excavating the foundations for this building a large number of artefacts and other traces leading back to the Viking Age were found, and similarly the excavations at the Main Square (Store Torv) have provided us with a great deal of information about the city during the Viking Age.

Vikings in Århus
When visiting Århus, the Bispetorv Square is the perfect place to begin. Starting anywhere else would be historically incorrect as this is the location of the city’s “birth certificate”.

The area around the ‘Store Torv’ Main Square, the ‘Bispetorv’ Square and the ‘Sct. Clemens Torv’ Square has always been the heart of Århus. This has been the case ever since the Vikings chose to settle on this spot by the bay more than 1200 years ago.

The Moesgård Viking Moot
You can also meet the Vikings in their everyday-life at the large Viking Moot which is held by the Moesgård Museum at the beach in Moesgård every year during the last weekend of July. This is a get-together for "Vikings" from Denmark, Scandinavia, and the British Isles where they demonstrate their skills with Viking weaponry, riding, craftwork, early "convenience goods", food and much more. It is a colourful and fascinating event where you can walk around and see, smell, taste and purchase the various goods - making you feel that you are back in a different area.

Moesgård Museum
At the Moesgård Museum you can also encounter the Vikings in the hall with the runic stones, at the Viking exhibition, in the reconstructed wooden church - a replica of one of the first small wooden churches in Denmark dating back to the late Viking Age - and in the reconstructed Viking houses.