What's on

In Ribe VikingeCenter we want you to experience history with all your senses! Learn how to play the old Viking games and invent your own games on the historical playground. Make wooden nails and visit the horses, cows, cats and the rest of the animals on the farm. Let your imagination run free and play along when the Vikings improvise and make history come to life. All these activities are free.

27.04.-24.06. Mon-Fri 11am-2:30pm. In the marketplace in Ribe Viking Centre you can make yourself a copy of the Ripa coin which was used in the marketplace some 1300 years ago. DKK 30.00 or buy an activity card.

The language is rough when the warriors teach the young recruits how to fight like Vikings with sword and shield. You have better be ready and do as your told. Free activity.

There is a busy trade going at the stalls, horses are whinnying, smoke from the fireplaces is in the air, and the troublemakers amongst the Vikings just cannot help picking a fight. Enjoy a few days of fantastic market atmosphere as it would have been 1300 years ago in Ripa. Take your time to explore the place, chat with the stallholders and strike a good bargain.

Join us on a little walk around Ribe VikingeCenter and learn more about some of the herbs used by the Vikings in cooking and medicine. Free activity.

Experience the very special atmosphere in the Viking church 860 AD during a short historical ceremony.

Meet up with the archaeologist in Ribe VikingeCenter and learn more about the background for the buildings that we have been reconstructing since 1992. With the different Viking settings, we're able to showcase the town Ribe's development from the foundation around 700 AD till the end of the 900s. In order to give a complete picture and make history even more hands-on to our visitors, historical interpreters are always on site to recreate everyday life, crafts, trade, farming and customs. All this is based on a huge research work and new knowledge keep turning up with every archaeological dig in old Ribe.