What's on

Time: 26.04.2023 - 23.06.2023

DateTimeEventMeeting place
26.04 - 22.0613:00 Tue, Wed, ThuMarket entertainment  

Join us in the marketplace for a bit of entertainment for the young and young at heart.

Marketplace
26.04 - 23.0610:00 - 15:30Hands-on activities  

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.

Ribe VikingeCenter
26.04 - 23.0611:00 - 15:15Try your aim at archery  

26.04.-23.06. Mon-Fri 11am-3:15pm. The hand-made Viking longbows with real arrows are waiting for you. Try your aim and find out if you are a natural. DKK 30.00 or buy an activity card.

Ring Fortress
26.04 - 23.0611:00 - 15:15Make your own Ripa-coin  

26.04.-23.06. Mon-Fri 11am-3:15pm. 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.

Marketplace
26.04 - 23.0611:00 - 15:15Wood carving  

26.04.-23.06. Mon-Fri 11am-3:15pm. Visit the carpenter in his workshop in Ripa Town. You're welcome to borrow a draw knife and do some work at the shaving horse. DKK 30.00 or buy an activity card.

Ripa Town
26.04 - 23.0612:00 Mon-FriWarrior training for children 7-13 yrs (DK,GB)  

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.

Ring Fortress
26.04 - 23.0614:00 Mon-FriFalconry show (DK,GB)  

Meet the falconer and his beautiful birds of prey. The birds are incredibly fast and for a juice chunk of meat they are keen to demonstrate their brilliant flying skills right over your head. Free show.

Ripa Town
01.05 - 07.05 Mon-SunInternational Viking Market  

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.

Ribe VikingeCenter
08.05 - 19.0612:30 MonThe Viking vegetable garden (DK)  

Come along to the vegetable garden on the Viking farm estate. Learn more about the vegetables and herbs cultivated here. Free activity.

Longhouse
08.05 - 19.0613:30 MonThe Viking vegetable garden (GB)  

Come along to the vegetable garden on the Viking farm estate. Learn more about the vegetables and herbs cultivated here. Free activity.

Longhouse
08.05 - 23.0611:30 Mon-FriThe murals in the Ansgar Church (DK)  

The walls of the Ansgar Church are being decorated. Come and have a look. Learn more about how it's done and why.

Ansgar Church
08.05 - 23.0611:45 Mon-FriThe murals in the Ansgar Church (GB)  

The walls of the Ansgar Church are being decorated. Come and have a look. Learn more about how it's done and why.

Ansgar Church
09.05 - 22.0612:30 Tue-ThuLearn about the Ring Fortress (DE/UK)  

The master builder and his team are constructing a ring fortress. Come to the building site to learn more about the work, fortification and defence.

Ring Fortress
09.05 - 22.0613:30 Tue-ThuLearn about the Ring Fortress (DK)  

The master builder and his team are constructing a ring fortress. Come to the building site to learn more about the work, fortification and defence.

Ring Fortress
10.05 - 21.0614:45 WedExperience the Ansgar Church (DK,GB)  

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

Ansgar Church
12.05 - 16.0612:30 FriThe archaeologist explains (DE)  

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.

Longhouse
12.05 - 16.0613:30 FriThe archaeologist explains (DK)  

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.

Longhouse
23.06 FriMidsummer Celebration  

The sun is high and nature's larder is bursting with food. Midsummer or Summer Solstice is an important time of the year to the Vikings and an obvious reason to celebrate. Why don't you join us.

The Viking Farm