December at the Viking Ship Museum
The calendar has turned to December and the peace of Christmas has settled over the Danish countryside. At the Viking Ship Museum you can see how the museum's boat builders create these very unique ships, while the smell of mulled wine lures you towards Cafe Knarr.
If the apple mulled wine doesn't warm your cheeks, you can warm yourself in the Viking Ship Hall, where the five original Viking ships stand in all their splendour.
As the December mood descends on the museum, it's a great opportunity to have a quiet moment with the beautiful ships from the Viking Age.
Take your time to explore together - maybe you'll find secrets from the Viking Age in the old planks?
Enjoy the Christmas atmosphere on Museum Island
Café Knarr offers Christmas treats
1 glass of mulled apple wine: 49,- kr.
3 traditional Christmas pancakes: DKK 25,-.
Special price for mulled wine and pancakes: DKK 59,-.
(mulled apple wine is also available as non-alcoholic)
Buy Christmas presents in the Museum Shop
Find the perfect, unconventional gift.
The Museum Shop is open every day throughout Christmas, so don't forget that you can shop last-minute gifts right up until Christmas.
Christmas at the Viking Ship Museum
Create a Viking Age Christmas tradition with your family this year. We're open every day during the Christmas holidays, including Christmas Eve!
For thousands of years, Christmas has been one of the great celebrations of the year - if not the greatest in the Nordic region. During the darkest time of the year, people gathered around the table to drink in peace and eat well.
When we sit down to eat and drink good Christmas food and beer, we are honouring a thousand-year-old Nordic custom.
At the Viking Ship Museum, we invite you every day during the Christmas holidays to take a break from the Christmas events and immerse yourself in creative activities for both children and their adults.
Every afternoon during the Christmas holidays, we ‘drink the sun down and the light back’ next to the Viking ships in the hall; just like Viking kings ‘drank Christmas’ more than 1000 years ago.
Christmas holidays at the Viking Ship Museum
21 - 31 December, 10:00 - 16:00
Activities all day in the Children's Village:
Write Christmas cards with runes
Colour in Viking patterns
Workshop in the Children's Village:
Make woollen cord for bracelets
Three times daily:
10:00-11:00; 12:00-12:30 & 14:00-15:00
Guided tours in the Viking Ship Hall:
The five Viking ships from Roskilde Fjord
Twice daily:
11:00-11:45 & 13:00-13:45
We drink the sun down and the light back:
We toast with mead or apple juice
On the main staircase or in the lounge depending on the weather
15:00