Moesgaard Museum
Grass-roofed archaeology museum south of Aarhus, home of the Grauballe Man bog body.
Moesgaard grew out of the archaeological collections of Aarhus University, which moved to the Moesgård manor house south of the city in 1970. The present museum, designed by Henning Larsen Architects and opened in October 2014, is a wedge of concrete pushed into a hillside and covered by a sloping roof of grass and flowering herbs. Visitors may walk, picnic and in winter sledge on the roof, while inside a broad staircase carries the displays down through the building.
The permanent galleries run chronologically through the Stone, Bronze, Iron, Viking and medieval ages, using large staged tableaux and reconstructed figures rather than rows of cases. The best-known object is the Grauballe Man, an Iron Age bog body found in Jutland in 1952 and shown in a darkened chamber, alongside weapons from the Illerup Ådal sacrificial deposit. The surrounding estate carries a prehistoric trail with reconstructed buildings that leads down to Moesgaard Beach.
Highlights
- Grauballe Man, an exceptionally preserved Iron Age bog body
- Sloping grass roof open for walking, picnics and sledging
- Weapons from the Illerup Ådal Iron Age sacrificial deposit
- Prehistoric trail through the estate down to Moesgaard Beach
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