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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Vingsted Iron Age
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Vingsted Iron Age

Embark on a journey back to the Iron Age. Vingsted Iron Age is one of Denmark's largest reconstructed Iron Age environments, where houses, fields, a blacksmith's forge, sacrificial site, and livestock...

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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

Feel the breeze of history, right where the Egtved Girl was buried in the iconic Bronze Age burial mound. One of Europe's finest Bronze Age discoveries was made in Egtved, outside Vejle. Here, a young...

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

The runes tell us that it was in the Viking Age in Jelling that Denmark got its name. King Gorm wrote it on his runestone, and we have used it ever since. It was also here that King Harald Bluetooth, ...

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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 Keller Institutions. The museum houses various objects and traces the history of the treatment of the ment...

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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

The city's art museum embraces both local heroes and the very latest contemporary art. Admission to the museum is always free.

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Cultural Museum
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Cultural Museum

Experience how the world we know today was created with exciting and fun exhibitions. Free admission.

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Landscape Sculpture by Robert Jacobsen - Jean Clareboudt

The Landscape Sculpture in Tørskind Gravel Pit. In a former gravel pit in the Vejle Valley, one of Denmark's few landscape sculptures is located, created by Robert Jacobsen and Jean Clareboudt.

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The Randbøldal Museum
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The Randbøldal Museum

Nature, history, and craftsmanship. Exciting and challenging experiences for the whole family. At the Randbøldal Museum, children and adults can learn more about the production of paper and fabrics in...

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Bindeballe Station
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Bindeballe Station

A Charming Little Gem. Bindeballe was one of the stations on the old Vandelbane, which now serves as a hiking and cycling path.

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Vejle Windmill
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Vejle Windmill

The Vejle Windmill is one of the landmarks of Vejle. Perhaps even the number 1 landmark of Vejle. Located on the hillside in the southern part of Vejle, the beautiful old windmill can be seen from lar...

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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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