At the Moesgård Museum, the viking museum, visitors will see a viking hall with the runic stones, a reconstructed wooden church and reconstructed Viking houses. Every year on the last weekend of July, there is a festival where "Vikings" from Denmark, Scandinavia, and the British Isles showoff their Viking weaponry, riding, craftwork, early "convenience goods" and traditional foodstuffs.

The shop Museums Kopi Smykker in the street of Kannikegade sells exact replicas of ancient and Viking jewelry made from bronze, silver and gold.

Viborgvej, alongside the city's best-known attraction, Den Gamle By ( www.dengamleby.dk) is an open-air museum that displays traditional Danish life. There are seventy-five half-timbered townhouses within this museum, which was first opened in 1914. The overall aim of the place is to give an impression of an old Danish market town.

The Århus Art Museum ( www.aarhuskunstmuseum.dk) located on Høegh-Guldbergs Gade in the northeastern edge of the city centre, shows off the best of the local art, from late eighteenth-century formal portraits to violent etches by Jørgen Sonne, to newer artists such as Asger Jorn and Richard Mortensen. The Museum is also recognized as a prime example of the modern Danish style: red bricks and white-framed rectangular windows, with no decoration at all.

On the University campus, there are two museums that might appeal: the Natural History Museum ( www.naturhistoriskmuseum.dk ; 40kr) which has a large collection of taxidermies of various birds and other animals, and the Steno Museum ( www.stenomuseet.dk ) which has a planetarium.