BRONZE AGE EXHIBITION
Burial mounds and trading expeditions
In the Bronze Age, huge burial mounds are erected in the landscape, people worship the sun and navigate using the stars. We travel with them on perilous trading expeditions into Europe and meet the family who were buried in oak coffins inside Borum Eshøj.
1700 BC – 500 BC
A journey in a past era
When the first bronze arrives in Scandinavia, it soon becomes the preferred material for making jewellery, weapons and tools. Bronze axes provide a technological leap that enables people to construct large wooden ships. A network of trade routes spreads across Northern Europe, and those who choose to go on the perilous voyages across the sea and rivers are hailed as heroes.
Much bigger than expected A thoroughly outstanding collection of prehistoric objects and a beautiful presentation in general. And the presentation of the Borum Eshøj burial mound! Incredibly well done. Highly recommended.
The people of the sun
The sun rises as the supreme deity and rules over life and death. Every day it sails across the sky and every night through the underworld – an eternal cycle that Bronze Age people engrave on their razor blades. They read the sky like a map and measure time according to the stars.
Open today 10–17