Become a viking in Nationalmuseet

The introduction

Hello everyone, I hope, that you are all doing just fine.

In this article I want to tell you about the National Museum of Denmark and my visit there, well, technically, I want to tell you about this one thing there, which is pretty amazing and people just love going there just to see this and enjoy themselves there.

There’s this place in the National Museum of Denmark, where you can get inside and try some clothes on and become a historical figure or something like that.

About National Museum of Denmark

So, this National Museum of Denmark is located just on Prince’s Mansion, Ny Vestergade 10 in Copenhagen and it’s somewhere nearby the Tivoli gardens and Glyptoteket and many famous places of Copenhagen. It’s called Nationalmuseet in Danish and it’s located in Prinsens Palais, which is a 18-th century royal palace, where there’s a Frederiksholms Canal just beside the building.

The museum works from 10 a.m. till 5 p.m. every day except from Monday, when it’s closed the whole day.

You can get inside with the Copenhagen Card free of charge and that’s how I got inside the museum _ I had this Copenhagen Card bought and I could use it and get free admission to many museums and buildings.

If you don’t have that Copenhagen card, you should pay 85 DKK for an adult and if you are under 18, you can get inside the museum free of charge. And there’s a family ticket, too, which costs 150 DKK.

Getting there is not difficult, you can even get there on foot, however, if you get to the main train station, it’s about 10 to 15 minutes walk there. And you can take buses no 1A, 2A or 11A and get off on the Stormbroen bus station.

The Viking place in National museum of Denmark

Well, now I want to tell you about this small place in National museum of Denmark, where there are some things exhibited and you can get up there and try them on and take pictures and things like that. It’s a pretty surprising fact, that you can do that in the museum, because I didn’t really think, that there could be something like that in any museum, however, that kind of thing exists in the National Museum of Denmark and you should know that.

I especially wanted to tell you about this place, because people usually love those things about Vikings and their shields and swords and things like that and they always wonder, how they looked like and what they wore and everything about them, you know, so that it’s a pretty good way to get to know about the Vikings with the help of such thing as the clothes exhibition there.

Well, it’s not really an exhibition, because you can just take those clothes and put them on and be like a Viking for some time.

So that, when you enter the National Museum of Denmark, you will go to the right and that’s where your journey starts with some prehistory and Vikings era coming up next. There are so many things, that you can see and read, that it’s no time for you to just aknowledge everything there, because then you just need plenty of time to be there and see everything there. There are some rooms and you have this map of the National museum of Denmark and you go into those rooms and then just walk and walk until you reach the very end.

Anyways, when you just go straight and not go anywhere else on the right or left, you will get to this point, where there’s a small place, where there are some unusual things there. When you go closer, you will see, that there are those Vikings clothes into the black curtains, which are all over the place for it to be separated from the whole exhibition there.

You can see the womens’ clothes and the men’s clothes there.

There are two women’s clothes, one of them is for the adults and the other one is for children. The large one is white whole cloth like a pajamas, I guess, and then there’s this blue dress to carry above that white dress and it’s a plain clothes and nothing fancy, of course, as it was back in those days. There are small red and white lines on the edges of that blue dress and it has a kind of a necklace, too. In all, it’s really lovely, however, it’s just what the usual people wore back then, I guess.

The small dress is like the large one in a kind of way. Though it has a golden-brown dress on it and it’s more like a casual thing, because it doesn’t really have any attributes or things like that.

Then you more to the right and see the men’s clothes, which are with some battling things, of course. You see the armour there and you can take them and put them on and hold them and feel the feeling of those Vikings going to the battles. There’s a metal armour there, which you should put on after you put on the plain clothes. The armour is like a whole dressing for the whole torso and arms. It’s relatively heavy and, I imagine, it would have been heavier back in those days, and I didn’t put it on because of that. Then there’s the helmet, which is made of metal, I guess, it’s an iron or something like that and it’s pretty much heavy for the skull, if you want to know the truth. And then there’s the shield, which is coloured in red and white and it’s a pretty beautiful one, though it’s heavy, too, of course.

Well, I couldn’t really fit the armour on me, because it was kind of heavy and it was not that necessary to have it put on, either, if you want to know the truth, and, besides, there was not much time for me there, because the museum was closing in some minutes and I just wanted to take a picture with those things on me, so that I just took the helmet and the shield and had those pictures taken. Of course, there were some people still around looking at the stuff there and I wanted to ask them to take a picture of me, however, it was not that good idea to have them disturbed with that taking picture. They had their plans there and wanted to see even more until the museum was closed and I just didn’t ask them this thing. However, I still took some pictures of my own on my own, if you want to know the truth.

To tell you the truth, this is a pretty good place to take your children and have them see those things and have them put on those Viking stuff and be amazed and feel themselves in that Viking era of many centuries ago. It’s a pretty good thing to make them get interested into history and want to know more about that place and life of those Vikings back in those centuries. You should let them watch the screen hung on the wall there between the women and men’s Viking clothing and you should have them fun being Vikings. It’s even interesting to see and carry those stuff for the adults, not to mention the children there and while they don’t really understand or want to know things about those exhibited items, except for some things, which they know from the cartoons or from some movies, they don’t really like walking around in the museums, which they don’t really interest, of course.

Well, besides the other things exhibited there in the National Museum of Denmark, which were pretty interesting and very old and very well preserved, as it might be said, it was really exciting having those Viking stuff put on and take some pictures. I didn’t really expect something like that to be in the National museum of Denmark, moreover, that we could put them on while watching some historical things about the clothing of the Vikings back in that era. At first, I was pretty much confused about that when I saw those clothes there in a separate kind of room, however, then I noticed those signs and writings in English, saying, that we could put those clothes on and feel ourselves as Vikings. It was a pretty good suggestion, which I loved so much and I always wondered about the shield and sword and the helmet and how heavy they were and how strong the people should have been to hold them and not to just hold them, but to have battles with the help of them and beat the enemies _ not one, but many!

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