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Museums in the Vejle River Valley-area

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Find your way to the many museums in Vejle River Valley and Fjord

Vejle River Valley and Fjord has a unique cultural history with many highlights, dating all the way back from the stone age to the present. Each museum has it’s own fascinating story to tell. Get up close and personal with Gorm the Old and Harald Bluetooth in Kongernes Jelling. Experience Spinderihallerne, Vejles museum of cultural history. Visit Egtvedpigens tomb. Get a nostalgic experience in Bindeballe Købmandsgård. Learn about farming life on the moor at Give-Egnens Museum etc.

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The Iron Age Village in Vingsted
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The Iron Age Village in Vingsted

Travel back to prehistoric times. The Iron Age Village in Vingsted is one of Denmark’s largest reconstructed Iron Age settlements with homesteads, fields, a foundry, sacrificial site and domestic anim...

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The Ravning Bridge
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The Ravning Bridge

King Harald Bluetooth and his people built a mighty bridge over the valley of Vejle Ådal around 980. At the site in Ravning Enge you can visit a reconstruction of two of the bridgeheads. The Raven Bri...

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The Grave of the Egtved Girl
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The Grave of the Egtved Girl

One of Europe’s finest Bronze Age archaeological finds was uncovered in the village of Egtved close to Vejle. Here, a young prehistoric woman was found resting in a barrow. Vejlemuseerne relates the s...

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Kongernes Jelling – home of the Viking kings
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Kongernes Jelling – home of the Viking kings

The Kongernes Jelling (home of the Viking kings) experience centre at the Jelling Monuments invites the whole family to explore Jelling of the Viking Age. Through unique and modern digital sensory exp...

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Kellers Minde Museum
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Kellers Minde Museum

Kellers Minde Museum (Keller’s Memorial Museum) aims to offer insight into the history of the Kellerke Institutions. The museum houses various objects and traces the history of the treatment of the me...

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Børkop Watermill - milling & Farbror Svends Collection
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Børkop Watermill - milling & Farbror Svends Collection

Surrounded by the scenic nature of East Jutland you find Børkop Watermill (Børkop Mølle), a fully-functioning watermill complete with waterwheel and millstones that sits next to ”Farbror Svends Samlin...

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Vejle Art Museum
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Vejle Art Museum

Art is inspirational! It offers vitamins and spice for life. Art is beautiful, fun, exciting – and not least challenging! Vejle Art Museum invites everyone to experience art that reflects on the human...

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Cultural Museum
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Cultural Museum

The Cultural Museum relates the history of Denmark seen from the perspective of the town of Vejle – from ancient to more recent times. It’s a hands-on museum with engaging experience that involve ever...

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The Sculpture Park Tørskind Grusgrav
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The Sculpture Park Tørskind Grusgrav

Danish sculptor Robert Jacobsen has in collaboration with French sculptor Jean Clareboudt transformed the former gravel pit in Tørskind into a sculpture park consisting of nine individual sculptures, ...

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The Randbøldal Museum
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The Randbøldal Museum

Randbøldal Museum offers exciting experiences for the whole family. Bring your picnic basket and enjoy nature, history and crafts. Here, children and their families can learn about paper and textile-m...

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Bindeballe Station
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Bindeballe Station

Bindeballe Station was one of the stops along the old Vejle-Vandel railway, which has since been repurposed as a hiking and cycling route.

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Vejle Windmill
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Vejle Windmill

The windmill is Vejle’s top landmark! Located on the hillside in the southern part of Vejle, the beautiful old mill can be seen from large parts of town. From the windmill reefing, there is an impress...

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Vandel Local Heritage Museum
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Vandel Local Heritage Museum

The Randbøl Local Heritage Museum and Archive in Vandel (Randbøl Sogns Arkiv og Museum) presents household items and decorative art dating after 1850 characteristic of the region. The museum also feat...

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Old grocer’s shop Bindeballe Købmandsgård

The old grocer's shop, Bindeballe Købmandsgård, is today a combined merchant museum and general grocery store. Both inside and outside, the signs, exhibits and fixtures remind us of its history.

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Egtved Museum
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Egtved Museum

Egtved Museum is a local heritage museum that exhibits objects from different historic periods, from the Stone Age till the twentieth century. Egtved Museum is managed by the Egtved Museum Association...

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