So surprising to walk into a mound and discover a viking ship buried on this site more than 1.000 years ago.
Ladby schip is zo prachtig. Je daalt af in de grafheuvel en dan ligt daar ineens dat schip.Zeer indrukwekkend. Daarna het museum bezoeken om meer erover te leren. Afsluiten bij het hobbyproject waar een nieuw schip ambachtelijk gebouwd wordt.
This small Viking museum is not The Louvre, but it is absolute one of the most authentic museums on Fyn. Not easy to find, but once there, you will enjoy the old Viking Grave, the 'newbuild' yard with very skilled craftsmen, the corresponding exhibition and the country side on a sunny day. Bring some sandwiches and a bottle of cold white wine and watch the 'Kerteminde Nor' from the same location as Harald the Cruel did many years ago. Also good for kids!
During a visit to Denmsrk in May 2013, my wife and I greatly enjoyed our visit to the Ladby Viking Shjp Grave and Museum.. It gave us a sense of the courage the Vikings had in sailing the oceans in an open boat with relatively little free board and one sail and some 32 strong oarsmen to move it.. I wondered how the heavy ship was pulled up the slope from the Fjord and concluded in my mind that it was by the eleven horses which were buried in the Boat along with the Captain. The actual buried old boat was hard to discern when you first enter the glass enclosed underground chamber until your eyes adjust to the lighting. I was impressed with the manner that a creative engineer had stabilized the preservation of the boat.At the Museum Site , the construction of a replica of the boat to scale was fascinating and the description of how the oak logs were split and the method of fastening the lapstreak type hull with iron rivets was most interesting.. I took several pictures of the boat under construction and read about its dimensions as an exact replica of the dimensions of the buried Ladby Viking Boat.Finally, we enjoyed the Museum itself with the friendly attendant and my wife purchased a small necklace replica of the Viking boat and I purchased a Viking boat and sailed it all the way back from Denmark to Palm Harbor Florida ( in a little box on the SAS flight home ! )Thanks to Klaus Petersen for taking us to this historic site which we greatly enjoyed and recommend to allRalph and Millie RobertsPalm Harbor Florida USA
This is surprisingly interesting. It is the only found Vikingship burial in Denmark - and it is kept in its original location on the brink of the fjord. We went there with no high expectations but were surprised with all the summeractivities (only on Wednesdays). Volunteers are building a true copy of the ship and our kids were taking into a universe of Vikings - put into Viking-like dress, cooking, tasks, etc. like a roleplay. Both kids and us parents learned about Danish Viking life and had fun.
We visited Ladbyskibet with friends visiting during August 2014, and we were not disappointed! I went there with my school class thirty odd years ago and remember being slightly bored, not this time around. It is proper good information and especially the boat builders outside, working on a 1:1 model of the ship are worth a chat. If you happen to pass through Eastern Fyn, do take a couple of hours to visit (and the staff were helpful with a good tip for lunch in Kerteminde too - Thorsted, best place for fish ever....).
Museet har oplevet en voldsom fremgang i besøgende i 2014, og planlægger udvidelse, og det er nok ikke nogen helt dårlig ide, for det er et relativt lille museum. De har en udmærket udstilling med ting fra området omkring Ladby. Da vi besøgte stedet havde de Revninge-kvinden i udstillingen, men den skal givetvis til Nationalmuseet. Det er en lille forgyldt sølvfigur fra omkring år 800. Ganske imponerende, hvad de kunne dengang.Man er igang med at fremstillet et "Bayeux tapet" om ladbyskibets historie, og 5 kvinder sad i et rum og broderede. Det er flot arbejde, men de var desværre meget optaget af deres egen, noget højlydte, samtale, så vi blev ikke for at høre mere om det.400 m fra selve museumsbygningen ligger højen, hvor Ladbyskibet ligger. Det er imponerende at se, selvom det mere er et aftryk end et egentligt skib. Knogler og metal er bevaret. Højen var dunkel og skibet kun dæmpet oplyst, så det var vanskeligt at tage gode billeder, men det er givetvis godt for bevaringen af genstandende.Der findes små vogne udformet som vikingeskibe ved museet, som man kan låne til at køre små børn eller tasker til højen, selvom det ikke er en lang gåtur.De var i fuld gang med at lave en rekonstruktion af Ladbyskibet, ligesom det er set gjort på Vikingeskibsmuseet i Roskilde. Det var kompetente og dygtige mennesker der byggede på skibe, og de vidste ting om både skibsfart og håndværk.Museet har en fin lille butik med masser af spændende ting for både børn og voksne. Desværre findes der endnu ingen restaurant eller cafeterie, men mon ikke det kommer snart, hvis publikumstilgangen fortsætter.
Man skal virkelig interessere sig for skibe eller vikingetiden, for at dette er køreturen værd. Skibet er set på få minutter. Gratis entre.
Very vivid experience, would be better if even cheaper to enter though, or cheaper the more people enter.
Genaraly very good, but the ship hall is under rebuilding, so all the info about the ship was not vissible.