HAITHABU VIKING MUSEUM

Just a stone's throw from the town of Schleswig, the Haithabu Museum is part of a vast site recreating a full-scale Viking trading post, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site alongside the Danevirke archaeological complex.

In the collective imagination, Viking civilization coincides above all with their presence in Scandinavia. However, this travelling people also settled along the Baltic coast in Poland and Germany.

In this sense, the Haithabu site is vital for developing and preserving scientific and archaeological knowledge of the Viking presence in the country.

Housed in a superb building with contemporary architecture, the museum presents superb collections of finds made in the area, taking us back some 1,000 years. Original objects, reconstructions and interactive installations punctuate your stroll through rooms imagined as the longhouses used for receptions in Viking times. Your attention will be particularly captivated by the superb jewels, the steles engraved with runes and the reconstitution of a royal drakkar.

Your visit continues outside, towards the water's edge, where replica houses have been set up. A whole village where you can stroll as the ancestors of the Scandinavians did ten centuries ago, when Haithabu was a major checkpoint for passage between the Baltic and the North Sea.