Harald Bluetooth’s Trelleborg is the best-preserved Viking ring fortress in Denmark and worth a stopover when driving from Copenhagen to Odense and Fyn. The Trelleborg Fortress is one of the best-known and most-important Viking-era sites near Copenhagen in Denmark. The main attraction is the well-preserved ramparts of the round Viking fortress erected by Harald Bluetooth … [Read more...]
See Prehistoric Rock Art at Tanum in Sweden
The Bronze Age rock carvings near Tanum in the Bohuslän region of Sweden are UNESCO World Cultural Heritage listed sites and easy to enjoy for free. Thousands of rock carvings of people, animals and boats made during the Bronze Age attract visitors to the Tanum area of Western Sweden. The high concentration of rock art here – 500 panels and thousands of carved images – … [Read more...]
Visit the Rietveld-Schröder House in Utrecht, the Netherlands
The UNESCO-listed Rietveld-Schröderhuis in Utrecht is the most-famous De Stijl house in the Netherlands. It may be visited only with prior reservations. The Rietveld-Schröder House in Utrecht is the best known building designed by Dutch architect and furniture designer Gerrit Rietveld. It is often described as the only building to fully incorporate the aspirations of the … [Read more...]
Visit Paleis Het Loo Palace in Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Paleis Het Loo, the Dutch royal hunting lodge and Baroque summer palace famous for its sumptuous interior and formal gardens, is a popular day-trip destination in the Netherlands. Het Loo Palace is a former Dutch royal residence located near Apeldoorn in the province Gelderland in the Netherlands. Originally a hunting lodge and summer residence, the large Baroque palace … [Read more...]
Visit the Mauermuseum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin
The Wall Museum at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin covers escapes from East Germany in the Cold War and non-violent struggles for human rights worldwide. The most-popular items in the museum are related to successful escapes from Communist East Germany to the West whether over or under the Berlin Wall, smuggled through border checkpoints or escaping via the air or sea. The museum … [Read more...]
Visit the DDR Museum in Berlin
The DDR Museum gives an easy to enjoy look into life and events in the former GDR (East Germany) during the period of German division. This small museum with many interactive displays is one of the most popular in Berlin. Its location is very convenient on the banks of the Spree River across from the Berliner Dom on Museums Island. The museum covers all aspects of living in the … [Read more...]
Visit the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam
The 17th-century Portugese Synagoge is a working synagogue but open to visitors as a central part of the Jewish Cultural Quarter in Amsterdam. The Portuguese Synagogue or Esnoga in Amsterdam is one of the oldest and largest working synagogues in Europe. It is at the heart of the Jewish Cultural Quarter in Amsterdam. The building dates from the 17th-century and has a … [Read more...]
Visit the Maritime Museum (Het Scheepvaartmuseum) in Amsterdam
The National Maritime Museum (Het Scheepvaartmuseum) in Amsterdam has a large collection of shipping-related items and a replica of a Golden Age sailboat. Het Scheepvaartmuseum in Amsterdam has the world’s second largest collection of historic maritime objects. The museum displays cover many aspects of The Netherlands’ glorious naval history using paintings, shipping … [Read more...]
See Munch’s Scream in the National Gallery of Norway in Oslo
The Scream and other Eduard Munch paintings are the highlights of a visit to the Nasjonalgalleriet (Norwegian National Gallery) art museum in Oslo, Norway. The Nasjonalgalleriet (Norwegian National Gallery) in Oslo is most famous for its copy of Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream that is the undisputed highlight of the around 300 works that are on permanent display in … [Read more...]
Visiting the Resistance Museum (Verzetsmuseum) in Amsterdam
The Verzetsmuseum in Amsterdam covers the history of Dutch resistance to the German occupation during the Second World War. It has a special junior section for children. The Dutch Resistance Museum (Verzetsmuseum) in Amsterdam is a remarkable exhibition on The Netherlands during the Second World War. It covers the run-up to the war, the occupation of The Netherland by … [Read more...]
Visit the Moesgaard Museum near Aarhus in Denmark
The Moesgaard Museum near Aarhus in Denmark is one of Scandinavia’s best with prehistory (Bronze / Iron / Vikings Ages) and anthropology exhibitions. The Moesgaard Museum (MoMu) is a superb archaeological and ethnographic museum near the city Aarhus on the Danish Jutland peninsula. The prehistory exhibitions concentrates on especially Danish archaeology with superb … [Read more...]
Visit Den Gamle By Open-Air Museum in Aarhus
Den Gamle By in Aarhus in Denmark is a large family-friendly open-air museum with typical historic old town buildings from the 1700s to the mid-1970s. Around 75 buildings here showed Danish town life in bygone years. Buildings range from poorhouses to noble town palaces with many open to visitors and furnished typically for the period and original use. Depending on the season, … [Read more...]